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CF 106272B - MAX? MEX?

I can’t reliably write a correct editorial for Codeforces 106272B - MAX? MEX? because the problem statement you provided is empty in the prompt. Right now I only see the title, constraints placeholders, and no definition of the input/output or the task.

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CF 106272K - Forgotten

The statement you provided is effectively empty, so there is no way to reconstruct the actual problem being solved.

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CF 106270F - Morning Walk

We are given a circular running track of fixed length. Kabul runs along this loop at a constant speed and keeps moving in one direction for a fixed duration.

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CF 106270H - Optimal Balancing Strategy

We are given an array of positive integers. We are allowed to repeatedly move prime factors between two positions using a controlled operation: pick a divisor $p$ of some element $Ai$, divide $Ai$ by $p$, and multiply another element $Aj$ by $p$.

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Kvant Math Problem 374

The expression contains two square roots that both include the factor $c$, suggesting a factorization by $\sqrt{c}$.

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Kvant Physics Problem 319

An object is placed on the optical axis of a thin converging lens $\text{Л}_1$ with focal length $F$, at a distance $2F$ from it.

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CF 106268G - Charity Raffle

We are given a process that ultimately produces a vector of counts over $n$ prize types after exactly $k$ rounds. In each round, two distinct types are selected.

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Kvant Physics Problem 318

A system of ideal capacitors is connected as shown in Fig.

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CF 106268I - Game of Names

We are given a one-dimensional board, represented as a string. Each position can either already contain Alice’s mark, Bob’s mark, or be empty. The game is turn-based starting with Alice.

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CF 106267I - Mystic Bounds

The statement you provided is essentially empty, so there is no way to reconstruct what “Mystic Bounds” is actually asking, what the input format is, or what constraints we are supposed to design around.

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CF 106263F - >v<

We are interacting with a system that maintains a very short binary string made only of the characters and <. At the start of each game, this hidden string has length at most 8.

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CF 106263I - 升级宝可梦

Each of the six players starts with a level-1 Pokémon. To raise a Pokémon from level $k-1$ to level $k$, we must spend exactly $k-1$ experience crystals. For each player, we are given a target level $ai$.

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CF 106262J - Tic-Tac-Toe on a Graph

We are given a simple undirected graph with up to two hundred thousand vertices and edges. Alice and Bob play a very short game on this graph.

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CF 106262I - Stone Steps

We are given a string consisting only of digits from 1 to 9. Every contiguous substring defines a number when interpreted in the usual decimal way.

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CF 106252J - The Echoes of Chronos

We are given an array of length $n$, where each position stores a value on a circular scale from $0$ to $m-1$. Think of each value as a position on a ring, so moving forward or backward wraps around modulo $m$. A single operation does not affect a single index.

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CF 106252H - Cute Young Diagram Counting

We are given a non-increasing sequence that defines a Young diagram by row lengths. After each prefix of this sequence, we consider the corresponding diagram and are asked how many distinct Young diagrams can be obtained by repeatedly applying a local transformation.

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Kvant Math Problem 361

A move consists of choosing a horizontal row or a vertical column that still contains at least one uncrossed cell, and crossing out every uncrossed cell in that row or column.

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CF 106252E - Play It by Ear

We are given a deck containing a permutation of $2n$ distinct cards. Initially, the top $n$ cards form your hand and the remaining $n$ cards stay in a hidden stack.

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CF 106252D - LED Display Renovation

We are given an LED display that can show an integer using up to $n$ digit positions, where each digit is drawn using a fixed 7-segment layout.

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CF 106251E - 67

We are dealing with an array of unknown positive integers where every pair of distinct elements is coprime. The only way we are allowed to interact with this array is through queries that return the product of two positions.

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CF 106251H - Exam Room

We are given a set of points in the plane, and we want to count subsets of these points that satisfy a geometric restriction involving the origin.

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CF 106250B - Avoid Copyright Infringement

We are given a target multiset of three types of characters, which we can think of as a string construction problem over the alphabet {M, T, I}. The input specifies how many times each character must appear in the final string.

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CF 106250E - Mahjong Connect

We are given a set of Mahjong tiles placed on a grid after discretization, so every tile lies on integer coordinates within an $N times N$ board.

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CF 106241I - Er7am El Tree

We are given a tree with values written on its nodes, and a fixed ordering of its edges as they were “laid on the ground”.

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CF 106241K - Good Subarrays

We are given an array of distinct integers. The task is not to modify the array itself, but to count how many contiguous subarrays have a special property.

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CF 106241E - Sheesh El Beesh

We are given a row of dominoes, each with a height and a cost. The only way to start any motion is to manually push selected dominoes, paying their respective costs.

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CF 106241C - Shift And Think

We are given a permutation p of size n, meaning it is a rearrangement of the numbers from 1 to n. Think of p as a function from indices to indices, where from position i you jump to position p[i]. A key operation is shifting the permutation cyclically to the left.

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Kvant Physics Problem 199

A neutron of mass $m$ and kinetic energy $E_0$ enters a material consisting either of heavy nuclei (lead, mass $M_{\mathrm{Pb}}$) or hydrogen-rich nuclei such as protons in paraffin or water (mass $M_…

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CF 106239L - 气球采购

We are given a set of $n$ different problem types, each associated with an expected probability ratio $pi / qi$ that models how many participants are expected to solve that problem.

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CF 106239I - 比较大小

We are given several independent test cases. In each test case there is an unknown array of up to 100 non-negative integers, each value at most $10^{18}$. We are not allowed to see the array directly.

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CF 106239C - 区间乘

We are given a sequence of positive integers and asked to answer multiple independent queries. Each query provides a target value $x$, and we must determine whether there exists a contiguous subarray whose elements multiply together exactly to $x$.

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CF 106239A - 极差最大的区间

We are given a sequence of integers and asked to choose a contiguous segment so that the difference between the largest and smallest element inside that segment is as large as possible.

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CF 106238A - Pet Shop

The statement you provided is effectively incomplete, so there isn’t enough information to reconstruct what Codeforces 106238A - Pet Shop is asking for.

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CF 106238C - The Last Night on Earth

I could not reliably locate the exact statement for “Codeforces 106238C - The Last Night on Earth” from the public archives or mirrored gym listings.

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CF 106225K - Keygen 3

We are asked to construct permutations of the numbers from 1 to n that satisfy two structural constraints at the same time. First, the permutation must be bitonic, meaning it increases up to some peak position and then decreases afterward.

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CF 106225J - Jewels Building

We are given an initial row of crystals, each crystal carrying an integer energy. The only allowed operation takes a contiguous block where all values are identical and compresses it into a single crystal whose value becomes the length of that block.

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CF 106225A - Adjusting Drones

We are given a sequence of energy levels assigned to a line of drones. Each drone carries an integer value, and values can repeat across different positions.

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CF 106225E - Expansion Plan 2

We start with an infinite integer grid where only the origin cell is active. Over time, we repeatedly expand the set of active cells according to a sequence of operations.

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CF 106210C - 逃出生天

We are given a rectangular grid that behaves like a time dependent maze. A player starts at the top right corner of the grid and wants to reach the bottom left corner.

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CF 106210H - 互异排列---生成

We are not asked to construct the final permutation after insertion. Instead, for a given n, we must construct a permutation p of 1..

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CF 106210I - 2-冲突数对

The statement you provided is incomplete, so I can’t reconstruct the actual problem reliably. Right now, only the title “2-冲突数对” is visible, but the core definitions are missing: what constitutes a “conflict pair”, what the input describes, and what must be…

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CF 106210D - 师出同门

I can’t reliably write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement for “Codeforces 106210D - 师出同门” is not included in your message (it only shows a placeholder “D”).

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CF 106208H - Guess the Number

We are dealing with a hidden parameter game that behaves like a very simple take-away game. There is a pile of stones, and two players alternately remove between 1 and k stones. The player who cannot move loses.

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CF 106208I - Fruit Ninja

We are given a tetrahedron in 3D space, fully determined by four non-coplanar points. The task is to cut this solid with a single plane such that the cut divides the tetrahedron into two regions of exactly equal volume.

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Kvant Physics Problem 201

The statement of Kvant problem F201 is missing, so the solution cannot be constructed.

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CF 106208E - Toggle the Streetlights

We are given a line of streetlights, each either on or off. At every minute, all positions are updated at the same time using a purely local rule: only a light that has two neighbors (so every interior position) may change, and it changes only when both of its neighbors were…

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CF 106208B - Tree Path Price Queries

We are given a rooted tree where each node represents a location that stores several identical items. Every node has two attributes: how many items it contains and a single price shared by all items at that node.

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Kvant Physics Problem 198

A skater moves on a horizontal ice surface with negligible friction in the lateral direction and very small rolling resistance along the blades.

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Kvant Physics Problem 197

A body of mass $m$ lies on a horizontal rough surface with coefficient of kinetic friction $k$.

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Kvant Physics Problem 193

Two one-dimensional paraxial optical systems are considered, both composed of thin lenses with identical focal length magnitude $f$ measured in meters.

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Kvant Physics Problem 189

A total charge $q = 10^{-8},\text{C}$ is distributed uniformly along a circular arc of radius $R = 1,\text{cm} = 10^{-2},\text{m}$.

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Kvant Physics Problem 188

The system consists of a refrigerator operating over a time interval $\tau$, consuming electrical power $W$, and a mass of water initially contained in a vessel at temperature $t^\circ\text{C}$ that i…

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Kvant Physics Problem 187

A thin horizontal metallic plate of area $s$ carries a charge $+Q$, so the free surface charge density is $\sigma = \dfrac{Q}{s}$ in $\mathrm{C,m^{-2}}$.

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Kvant Physics Problem 186

A passenger is modeled as a point mass $m$ moving along a curved trajectory of radius $R$ at speed $v$ in a horizontal plane for a car or bus, and along a banked circular path for an airplane.

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Kvant Physics Problem 184

A single television frame is transmitted as a finite amount of information with total size $S$ measured in bits.

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Kvant Physics Problem 183

A dynamometer consists of a casing of mass $m_c$ and a spring of mass $m_s$ inside it.

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Kvant Physics Problem 182

A person performs a vertical jump from the surface of the Moon, reaching a maximum height $h_{\mathrm{M}}$.

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Kvant Physics Problem 181

A satellite of mass $m$ moves around the Earth of mass $M$ in a nearly circular orbit of radius $r$ with orbital speed $v$.

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Kvant Physics Problem 180

A perfectly conducting sphere of radius $R$ is placed in an initially uniform electrostatic field of magnitude $E$, directed along a fixed axis.

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Kvant Physics Problem 179

A submarine moves vertically downward in a homogeneous, motionless fluid where sound propagates with constant speed $V$ relative to the water.

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Kvant Physics Problem 178

A closed cubic vessel of edge $L = 1~\text{cm} = 1 \cdot 10^{-2}~\text{m}$ contains $n$ identical gas molecules at room temperature $T \approx 300~\text{K}$.

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Kvant Physics Problem 177

A stretched string of length $L$ carries transverse oscillations under constant tension $T$ and has linear mass density $\mu$, measured in $\mathrm{kg,m^{-1}}$.

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Kvant Physics Problem 176

The physical system consists of a cutting or piercing tool, such as an awl, nail, or knife, interacting with a solid material.

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Kvant Physics Problem 175

Two identical spheres of radius $R=1.

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Kvant Physics Problem 174

An ideal gas containing $n$ moles undergoes a quasistatic process in which pressure, volume, and temperature are always well defined and related by the equation of state $pV=nRT$.

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Kvant Physics Problem 173

A uniformly charged solid sphere of radius $R$ carries a constant volume charge density $\sigma$ with SI units $\mathrm{C,m^{-3}}$.

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Kvant Physics Problem 172

A rigid conducting rod of length $l = 0.

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CF 106203L - Мистический эксперимент Пагсли

We are given an array of integers that changes over time through point updates. After each update, we must be able to answer how many positions in the array have a specific “balance” property defined using XOR.

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Kvant Physics Problem 171

The system consists of two identical point masses of mass $m$ connected by a rigid, massless rod of length $l$, forming a dumbbell initially oriented vertically.

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Kvant Physics Problem 170

A homogeneous plasma contains electrons and ions with equal number density $n$ in $\text{cm}^{-3}$.

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CF 106203K - Инциденты в Неверморе

We are given a set of people placed on a number line. Each person sits at a fixed coordinate and has three main attributes: an initial intelligence value, a teamwork value, and a way to repeatedly convert intelligence into teamwork using a discrete operation that both reduces…

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CF 106203J - LOIS

We are given an array of length n whose elements are integers in the range [0, k]. This array is treated as a multiset with order irrelevant for the condition, since the only properties that matter are the sum of elements and the product of elements.

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Kvant Physics Problem 166

A horizontal cylinder contains a frictionless piston of mass negligible for energy accounting.

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CF 106203H - Ужасающий эксперимент Уэнсдей

We are given an array of positive numbers. We must choose three distinct positions $i, j, k$ and evaluate a symmetric expression formed by ratios of these values.

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CF 106203G - Подарок Уэнсдей

We are given a source string s and two target strings t1 and t2 whose total length equals A cut defines the boundaries of pieces. With k cuts, we obtain k+1 pieces.

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CF 106203C - Побег от зомби

We are interacting with a hidden point on a 2D integer grid. Initially, there is a point $(x0, y0)$ that we do not know.

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CF 106203E - Лабиринт Кошмаров

We are given a tree, meaning a connected graph with no cycles, where each vertex is a room and each edge is a corridor. Movement in the original graph is only along edges. The twist is that movement is not actually restricted to adjacent nodes anymore.

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Kvant Physics Problem 154

The system consists of small spherical water droplets suspended in still air forming a fog layer of uniform thickness $H = 200~\text{m}$.

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Kvant Physics Problem 139

A ball is launched from a fixed point with speed $v$ at angle $\alpha = 30^\circ$ above the horizontal.

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Kvant Physics Problem 137

The radiation intensity $I$ decreases along a propagation path due to absorption by methane molecules.

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Kvant Math Problem 960

Let consecutive natural numbers be $k$ and $k+1$.

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CF 106461Q - Calendar Square

The task describes a simplified combinatorial setting involving a calendar-like structure, but the only meaningful variable is the size of a month in days.

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CF 106461R - Rock Paper Scissors

We are given two integers that describe aggregate information about a group of people playing a simplified Rock-Paper-Scissors setting. Instead of tracking individual interactions, we only care about how many people choose each hand: rock, scissors, and paper.

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CF 106461O - Xor Triangle

We are counting ordered pairs of integers $(a, b)$ where both numbers lie in the range $1 le a, b < 2^N$. Each number is represented using exactly $N$ bits.

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CF 106461P - N-day Long Event

The problem describes an event that spans a fixed number of consecutive days, and the task is to compute a value associated with that span.

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CF 106461N - Cellular Component Constellation

We are working with a square grid of size $N times N$, where each cell must be colored in one of two colors, conceptually black and white. After coloring, we look at connected components formed by 4-directional adjacency among cells of the same color.

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CF 106461M - Linked VERSE

We are given a sequence of integers that naturally splits into two kinds of blocks: positive values and the value −1.

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CF 106461L - Make Many KUPC

We are given a string consisting of uppercase letters, and we are interested in extracting weighted structures of the form “U followed later by P followed later by C”, with an additional C appearing even later.

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CF 106461K - Square Resistance Value

We are asked to construct an electrical network whose effective resistance approximates a given real value $D$, with very high precision.

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CF 106461J - Sum of max of iai

We are working with a structure where, for each integer threshold $k$, we can count how many permutations of size $N$ satisfy a constraint derived from the values $ai$.

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CF 106461I - Xor Magic Square

We are asked to construct an $N times N$ grid of positive integers that satisfies a set of XOR constraints on its rows, columns, and both main diagonals.

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CF 106461E - Ball Dumping Golf

We are looking at a system where each object simultaneously acts like a source and a target of directed connections. Concretely, every ball induces a directed edge from the box it currently sits in to the ball’s own index.

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CF 106461F - 1e16 Cities

We are asked to construct an undirected graph on positive integers up to a very large limit (up to $10^{16}$). Each valid pair of integers can be connected by an edge if it satisfies a specific arithmetic condition involving their gcd.

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CF 106461B - Cat Cut

We are given a sequence of strings and a target length $M$. We start building a new string by taking the first string in full, then for every next string we are allowed to append any prefix of it, possibly empty.

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CF 106461C - Partition AND/OR Aggregation

We are given a sequence of integers and asked to split it into a fixed number of contiguous segments. Each segment has a value defined by combining all elements inside it with a bitwise operation score (constructed from AND/OR aggregation, depending on the formulation in the…

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CF 106463E - Street Magician

We are given a sequence of integers, and we are allowed to rearrange it using a special notion of when two elements are “compatible to be inverted”.

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CF 106463C - Banana Lounge

We are given a line of rooms, each room having a height. The “banana supply” of a room configuration is determined by how these heights interact with a monotonic structure: each room contributes to some global total depending on how far it extends its influence until a…

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CF 106463A - Circular Board Game

We are given a circular board with $N$ positions labeled from $0$ to $N-1$. A player starts on some position $Y$.

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Kvant Physics Problem 65

Two conducting plates form a parallel-plate capacitor with mutual capacitance $C$.

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CF 106467J - Flame Strike 2

The problem describes a grid-based battlefield where each cell contains information about a flame source or empty space, and the goal is to simulate or evaluate the effect of a “flame strike” process over the grid until a stable state is reached or a final measurable outcome…

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