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CF 106440C - 消失的元素

We are given a large universe of integers from 1 to $n+m$, and a hidden set $S$ of size $n$. All elements in $S$ are distinct. Alice can see the full set $S$, but she is only allowed to communicate a slightly smaller set $S'$ obtained by removing exactly one element from $S$.

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CF 106435B - Треугольник Марселя

We are given a triangular table of numbers built row by row. The top cell and both outer borders are fixed to zero. Every other cell is defined by taking the two cells directly above it (above-left and above-right) and computing the MEX of their values.

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CF 106430J - Bessie and Gifts

We are given a process involving Bessie and a sequence of gifts, where each gift has some value and the structure of the task suggests that we repeatedly combine or reason about contiguous segments of these gifts.

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CF 106416E - Eye Exam

Codeforces 106416E: Eye Exam

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CF 106416I - Inversion Game

We are given a multiset of integers. Two players alternately take elements from this multiset and append each chosen element to the end of a growing sequence.

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CF 106398I - Сломанная матрица

Codeforces 106398I: Сломанная матрица

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CF 106398E - Лабиринт для хомяка

We are given a rectangular grid of size $N times M$. Inside this grid, we build a structure made of concentric rectangular “rings”.

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CF 106396K - 共死

We are given a list of integers and a threshold value $k$. From this list, we are interested in how “close” any two elements can get under the XOR operation.

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CF 106387C - Olympic Haircut

The problem is essentially about choosing a subset of barbers and evaluating what that subset “produces” according to some scoring rule defined in the statement.

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CF 106384F - 世界如此可爱

I can’t produce a correct editorial yet because the problem statement for Codeforces 106384F - 世界如此可爱 is missing from your prompt, and it is not publicly accessible from the information provided.

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CF 106369B - We Want You Happy!

The task, as stated, provides no meaningful structured input and expects a corresponding output that reflects the intent of the problem name.

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CF 106202F - Убежища

We are given a set of points on a line representing people. Each person sits at a fixed coordinate, and we are allowed to place a certain number of shelters on the same line.

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CF 106194I - 隔墙花影旧相知

We are given a single integer $m$ up to $10^{12}$. From this number, we consider all its positive divisors and sort them in increasing order.

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CF 106193K - Keys and Grates

We are given a one-dimensional infinite tunnel. Every important object lies on an integer coordinate: the starting position, a set of keys, a set of grates, and a final hatch. Each key opens exactly one designated grate, and once a grate is opened it becomes passable forever.

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CF 106192I - Нашествие жуков

The city is modeled as an $n times n$ grid of intersections. Each intersection $(x, y)$ lies on a vertical street $x$ and a horizontal street $y$.

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CF 106185G - Number of Faces

We are given two convex polygons, each lying on a separate horizontal plane, one at height $z = 1$ and the other at $z = 2$. What is fixed is not their coordinates, but only the sequence of interior angles for each polygon in cyclic order.

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CF 106175D - Pseudo-random Numbers

We are given a deterministic generator that starts from a large base-B number and repeatedly transforms it into shorter and shorter numbers. Each step outputs one digit: specifically the last digit of the current number in base B.

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CF 106170I - Mancala Solitaire

We are asked to construct a starting arrangement of stones in numbered holes 1 through m, with hole 0 being a special sink that starts empty and is not output.

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CF 106167K - Killjoys' Conference

We are given a group of people and a list of pairs who cannot sit in the same room. A valid meeting arrangement assigns every person to exactly one of two rooms, East or West, such that every “dislike” pair is split across rooms.

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CF 106164G - Galactic Adventure Agency

We are given a tree of up to 200,000 planets. Each planet has a fixed point in 3D space. For any pair of planets, two independent quantities define “satisfaction”. The first comes from the tree.

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CF 106163D - Prefix Max

We are given an array and a large number of queries. For each query, we look at a segment of the array and try many different starting points inside that segment. Fix a subarray from index L to R. If we pick a starting position i inside it and look at a[i..

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CF 106161H - Heuristic Knapsack

We are given a fixed convex polygon $P$ with $n$ vertices, and another convex polygon $Q$ that lies strictly inside it. From the vertices of $P$, we must choose exactly three distinct points to form a triangle.

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CF 106159I - Ivo saw the UVa

We are given a rectangular grid of characters representing a board of letters. Each cell contains a single uppercase character. The task is to count how many times the pattern “UVA” appears in the grid when read along straight lines.

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CF 106153A - 琪露诺的算法课堂

The task is extremely direct: the program receives no meaningful structured input and is only required to print a fixed string. The output is always the same phrase, regardless of what the input would have been in a typical competitive programming setting.

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CF 106151A - zerorush

We are given a sequence of integers. In one move, we pick any single element and change it by exactly plus two or minus two. We repeat this process until at least one element becomes exactly zero.

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CF 106144K - Strange Array

We are asked to construct an array of length n, where each element is a 30-bit integer. The quality of the array comes from two competing effects. On one hand, we take the bitwise OR over all elements, and multiply it by a fixed coefficient k.

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CF 106142J - Размещение постройки

We are given a very large rectangular grid with n rows and m columns. Some cells are blocked by stones, and all remaining cells are free.

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CF 106141H - Tram System

We are given an $n times n$ grid of lowercase letters. This grid is not static: it is overlaid by several independent cyclic “tram rings” that follow nested square paths. Each ring behaves like a circular sequence, and each ring can be rotated independently by any amount.

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CF 106136G - Midnight Monsoon

We are given a dynamic multiset of numbers representing pufferfish sizes. After each update, we are allowed to reorder all values arbitrarily into a permutation.

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CF 106132C - Construct Permutation

We are given a multiset of integers and we are allowed to reorder them arbitrarily into a sequence. The goal is to decide whether we can arrange them so that every adjacent pair satisfies a modular relationship: the sum of each consecutive pair, taken modulo M, must equal a…

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CF 106130F - 雪莉的预言

We are maintaining a dynamic multiset of votes over m participants, each participant identified by an index from 0 to m - 1. Every vote increments the count of one participant, and a removal operation decrements it if that participant currently has at least one vote.

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CF 106084K - Move Stone

We are given an $n times n$ board where each cell contains some number of stones, and the total number of stones over the whole grid is exactly $n^2$. The target configuration is very rigid: after all operations, every cell must contain exactly one stone.

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CF 106084E - Explosive Slabstones Rearrangement

We are given a rectangular grid and a set of k distinct occupied cells, each containing a labeled slabstone. A rectangular forbidden zone is also given. If any slabstone ends up inside this rectangle at the moment the device is placed, the entire configuration becomes invalid.

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CF 106082F - House Prices Going Up

We are given a sequence of house prices arranged along a line. The system starts focused on a single “central” house, and over time we expand our attention outward to neighboring houses.

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CF 106073J - João João

We are given a fixed collection of 10 tasks, each labeled with a difficulty value from the set {1, 2, 3, 4}. The organizer wants to eventually be able to select a set of four tasks, one from each difficulty level.

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CF 106073E - Expansion of the road network

We are given the final state of an undirected simple graph on $N$ cities. We are told that this graph was not originally built in this form. Instead, it started as a tree on the same $N$ vertices.

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CF 106072K - The Only Heart

We are given a tree and we consider all ways to delete vertices so that the remaining vertices still form a connected subgraph. In a tree, any connected induced vertex set is again a tree, so every valid choice corresponds to picking a connected subtree.

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CF 106072D - Arcane Behemoths

We are given an array of integers, where each value represents the initial attack power of a creature. From this array we can pick any non-empty subsequence, meaning we may choose any subset of indices while keeping their original order.

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CF 106068K - Hassan VS Naya

We start with a list of integers. Two players take turns, beginning with Naya, and each move consists of choosing any two numbers from the current list, removing them, and inserting their greatest common divisor. After exactly N − 1 moves, only one number remains.

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CF 106068A - Correct Brackets

We are given a string made only of opening and closing parentheses. The only allowed operation is to take a closing parenthesis from some position and reinsert it anywhere to its left. Opening parentheses are fixed in place.

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CF 106059D - Data Transmission

We are given a tree, meaning there is exactly one simple path between any two nodes. Each query gives us two independent communication requests: one from a to b and another from c to d. Activating a node means that node lies on at least one of the two chosen paths.

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CF 106057J - Co-Primal Ancestor

We are given a rooted tree where every node carries an integer value. For each query, two nodes are provided and we are asked to consider all nodes that lie on the path from the root down to the lowest common ancestor of those two nodes.

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CF 106057I - Anapalindrome

We are given a single string, and we want to break it into contiguous pieces. Each piece is considered valid if its characters can be rearranged to form a palindrome. For every valid way to split the entire string, we assign a score equal to the number of pieces in that split.

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CF 106057G - MeX is not Max

We are given one or more sequences of non-negative integers. For each sequence, we want to find the smallest non-negative integer that does not appear anywhere in that sequence. This value is called the MEX, short for “minimum excluded value”.

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CF 106057E - Treasures in the Interval

We are given an initial array of length $N$. After that, a sequence of range updates modifies it: each update picks a segment $[L, R]$ and adds a value $d$ to every element inside that segment. Once all updates are applied, the array is fixed.

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CF 106054B - Block sum array

We are given a target array of block sums. Each value in this array represents the sum of a contiguous segment of some hidden array $A$, where every segment has fixed length $K$.

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CF 106054D - Day of rain

Each round of the game is fully described: we know exactly which two cards were played and in which order. What we do not know is which suit was chosen as trump, and that single missing piece affects how every round is evaluated.

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CF 106054M - March and Conquer

We are given a graph of cities connected by undirected roads, all of equal length. Marco starts at city 1 and must reach city 2. Each “day” he walks along a simple walk in the graph consisting of at least 1 and at most K edges, and then stops.

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CF 106054L - Lakes

We are given a 1 × N strip where each cell is either water or land. Some water cells already exist, and land cells can optionally be excavated into water by paying a cost per cell. Once we decide what becomes water, we try to place boats.

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CF 106054K - Kuantum

We are given a tree of $N$ processing units. Each node has an integer label called its frequency. The structure is static, but we must answer many independent queries about communication between two nodes $X$ and $Y$. A message does not travel in a single simple path.

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CF 106054J - Jaimito's blocks

We are given two configurations of stacked blocks distributed across $T$ towers. Each tower is essentially a stack, and every block has a weight.

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CF 106054G - Going to the kiosk

We are modeling a very small payment system. A customer wants to buy an item priced at $A$ pesos. He pays with a single bill worth $B$ pesos, so the kiosk must return exactly $B - A$ pesos in change.

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CF 106054E - Execution

We are given a tree rooted at node 1. Every node except the root starts with some number of soldiers placed on it. Time evolves in discrete turns.

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CF 106047J - Triangle City

The city can be seen as a triangular grid of intersections. The first row has one node, the second has two, and so on until the nth row has n nodes. Each intersection is identified by coordinates $(i, j)$, where $i$ is the row and $j$ is the position inside that row.

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CF 105831D - Просто дерево

We are given a tree where each vertex carries a value. We are also given a threshold value c. From all simple paths in the tree, we only care about those paths where the values on the path are not “too extreme” in the sense that the minimum value on the path is at most c and…

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CF 106047D - DS Team Selection 2

We maintain an array of length n that is being modified by three types of global operations, and we are repeatedly asked for range sums.

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CF 106033M - Minimax Spanning Tree

We are given a sequence of numbers representing a game where two players alternately remove elements from a line.

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CF 105831C - Кот, огонь и вода

We are given a fixed array of house heights. Each query paints a contiguous interval of houses. After a painting, we are asked how many “firefighter operations” are needed to extinguish all burning houses in that interval.

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CF 105831A - Фиксики и паровой двигатель

We are given an even number of participants, each with a nonzero integer value representing their efficiency. We must pair them up so that every participant is used in exactly one pair.

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CF 105806A - 出勤规划

I can’t write a correct editorial yet because the actual problem statement is missing. Right now the prompt only contains “A” for the statement and empty Input/Output sections, which doesn’t give enough information to determine what the task is (inputs, constraints, or…

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CF 105806E - GDUT = 1

I can’t write a correct editorial for this problem yet because the actual problem statement is missing. Right now the only content provided is just the label “E”, with no description of what the input represents, what operations are allowed, or what needs to be computed.

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CF 105806L - 字符串匹配太多了!

I can’t write a correct editorial yet because the actual problem statement for Codeforces 105806L - “字符串匹配太多了!” is missing from your prompt (it only shows “L” and empty input/output sections).

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CF 105806I - 好想成为人类啊

I can’t reliably reconstruct the problem from just the title and empty statement (“I”) without risking inventing details, and that would make the editorial wrong. Please paste the full problem statement (or a link / screenshot text).

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CF 105806H - 可爱串串

The problem statement you provided is incomplete. Right now it only contains the title “H” with empty input and output sections, so there is no way to reconstruct what the task is actually asking, what the constraints are, or what kind of operations are involved.

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CF 105806F - 排队

I can’t responsibly write a correct Codeforces editorial for “105806F - 排队” because the actual problem content (input format, rules of the queue, and required output) is missing. Right now, only the title is present, and everything else in the statement is blank.

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CF 105806B - 二分炼狱

I can’t write a correct editorial for this problem yet because the actual problem statement content is missing. Right now, the only thing provided is the title “二分炼狱”, but there are no definitions of the input, output, or the task itself.

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CF 106047M - Trie

We are given a rooted tree with vertex 0 as the root and vertices 1 through n. Every non-root vertex has exactly one parent, so the structure is already fixed as a rooted tree.

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CF 106047G - Gem Island 2

We start with $n$ boxes, each initially containing exactly one ball. We then repeat a reinforcement process $d$ times. In each step, we pick one of the existing balls uniformly at random from the entire system.

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CF 105806J - 11 背包

The problem statement you pasted is effectively empty (“J”), so there’s no information about the input format, constraints, or what “11 背包” is supposed to mean in this context.

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CF 105806G - Jump Sort

I’m missing the actual problem statement for Codeforces 105806G - Jump Sort (the content section only shows “G” with no description, input/output, or rules).

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CF 105806C - BloomsTD6

We are given a geometric defense simulation on a fixed polyline path. A set of balloons appears over time. Each balloon starts at a given arrival time and then moves along a shared piecewise-linear path in the plane at unit speed.

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CF 105806M - 晚饭吃什么?

The problem information provided here is incomplete, so a correct editorial cannot be written yet. Right now, the statement only shows a label “M” without any description of the input format, output format, or task definition.

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CF 105806K - 橘猫的后缀问题

The statement you provided is incomplete. Right now it only contains the title and a single “K”, with no description of the input, output, or task definition.

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CF 105806D - 橘猫的背包问题

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement is missing. Right now I only see the title “Codeforces 105806D - 橘猫的背包问题” without any description of the knapsack variant, constraints, or what is being optimized.

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CF 105831B - Алесандр

We are given a directed graph with n nodes and exactly n − 1 directed edges. Each edge x → y means that the butterfly numbered x considers y its friend.

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CF 106434E - Массив без треугольников

We are given an array that changes over time, where each change updates a single position. After every update, we must count how many subarrays are “good”.

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CF 106430F - Bessie at the Bank

We are maintaining a security code represented as an array of integers that changes over time. After each change, we need to evaluate a condition based on a fixed list of “favorite numbers” $d1, d2, dots, dD$, where $D le 30$.

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CF 106429C - Carrot Party

We are given a sequence of numbers representing a game where two players alternately remove elements from a line.

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CF 106420E - Strongest Attack First

We are given a sequence of enemy attack waves. Each wave has two parameters: a damage rate per second and a duration. If the player chooses a level ℓ, every wave is weakened by subtracting ℓ from its damage rate, but never below zero.

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CF 106416C - Crop Circles

We are given a set of circular irrigation sources on a plane. Each source has a fixed position and a fixed watering radius, and it fully covers everything inside or on its circle. Camila wants to place another circle anywhere in the plane.

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CF 106398G - Вася и тренировки

We are given a sequence of scheduled training sessions. Ideally, there are $n$ sessions, but Vasya may skip some of them. Every skipped session is not lost: it must be compensated later at a future visited session.

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CF 106396H - 烟火拾穗

The problem gives a weighted graph with a designated starting node. We are allowed to move along edges, and the cost of moving between any two nodes is defined by the shortest path distance in the original graph.

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CF 106393B - Барьеры

We are given an undirected graph on vertices labeled from 1 to n. The graph has no cycles, so every connected component is a tree, and the whole structure is a forest. Each edge connects two vertices and represents a corridor of energy between two barriers.

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CF 106387B - Ski Buddy

The statement you provided is incomplete, so it’s not possible to write a correct, problem-specific Codeforces editorial yet. All we currently know is a single hint: “You can brute force this problem. Simulate what happens if Edward were to drop down at each pole.

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CF 106384E - 冒泡排序

The problem is centered around a process that is explicitly described as bubble sort. We are given an array, and the task is to compute some quantity related to how bubble sort operates on that array.

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CF 106369D - Good Goalie

The problem describes a goalkeeping scenario where we are implicitly evaluating how “good” a goalkeeper is under a specific scoring rule applied to a set of situations.

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CF 106367E - Eight-thousand-year Wait

We are given an array and we consider every subsequence formed by deleting any subset of elements while keeping order. For each resulting sequence, we count how many times two adjacent elements are equal. This count is called the number of flashes.

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CF 106362F - The Perfect Gift

We are given a permutation of length $n$, and we are asked to evaluate a value derived from all of its subarrays using the notion of MEX.

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CF 106356E - Chorki

We are given a binary array and we are allowed to rotate it circularly. After choosing a rotation, we compare the original array with this rotated version element by element using XOR. Wherever the two arrays differ, we get a 1 in the resulting array, otherwise we get a 0.

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CF 106353I - Illuminated Stalls

We are given a set of axis-aligned line segments, each representing a neon tube. Every segment is either perfectly horizontal or perfectly vertical.

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CF 106352D - Рабочие пары в Зверополисе

We are given a list of integers, each representing a “worker” in Zveropolis. For every worker, we must choose a different partner from the same list so that a specific interaction score is maximized.

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CF 106339G - Ski Obstacle Course

The problem describes a skier moving down a slope that is divided into discrete lanes. Time progresses in steps, and at each step the skier’s possible positions form a set of lanes. Initially the skier starts in a single lane at the top.

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CF 106338A - Покраска бруска

We are given a rectangular solid block made of unit cubes with dimensions $a times b times c$. Every unit cube inside this block has some number of faces exposed on the outside surface, depending on where it sits: corner, edge, face, or fully interior.

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CF 106337B - Хромой король

We are working with a rectangular grid of size $n times m$, where each cell is considered a vertex of a graph and adjacency is defined implicitly by movement between neighboring cells.

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CF 106328E - MiniC

We are given a permutation of numbers from zero to n minus one. For every position i, we want to look strictly to the right and find the first position j where the value becomes smaller than the value at i. If no such position exists, the answer for i is n.

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CF 106318E - Лорды и гербы

We are given two domino tiles. Each tile has two ends, and each end carries an integer value from 0 to 6. The first domino is described by two numbers, and the second domino is also described by two numbers. We are allowed to rotate each domino, meaning we can swap its two ends.

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CF 106315D - Magical Flower Garden

We are given an array of integers, representing a line of flowers. Each flower has a “color”, but what really matters for the problem is a derived value called saturation, defined as the number of set bits in the binary representation of the color.

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CF 106307H - Gray Rectangles

The construction starts from a classic Gray code sequence. For each level $n$, we build a permutation $Gn$ of all integers from $0$ to $2^n - 1$. This sequence is then used to define a binary table $Tn$ with $n$ rows and $2^n$ columns.

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CF 106299I - Saki and Encoding

The problem statement you provided is incomplete (only “I” is shown, with no description of input/output or task).

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CF 106298A - Explosive String

The statement as provided is incomplete in a way that makes the actual task undefined. All we know is that the input contains a string with characters from {L, R, ?} and that we are allowed to replace every ‘?’ either with ‘L’ or with ‘R’.

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