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CF 105962A - Neymar at Santos

We are looking at a simplified financial model tied to football performance. There are $P$ teachers, each earning a fixed monthly salary $R$.

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CF 105968K - Kowtowing Our Leader

We are given an array of integers, and we are interested in pairwise products formed by choosing two elements from it.

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CF 105968F - Fraud Detection

We are given a collection of integers, each written in standard decimal form. The task is to look at each number, extract only its first non-zero digit, and count how often each digit from 0 to 9 appears as that leading digit across the entire collection.

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CF 105968C - Circulating Misinformation

We are given two sequences of strings. The first sequence represents the original collection of messages, and the second sequence represents a later, potentially corrupted stream of messages.

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CF 105973H - Substring Symphony

We are given a fixed reference string a and another string b. For any contiguous substring c taken from b, we define a function that depends on how its internal substrings compare against a. For a chosen length k, we look at every contiguous substring of c of length k.

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CF 105973C - Binomial XOR

We are given a function defined on each integer position from 1 to n. For a fixed i, we look at all binomial coefficients in the i-th column of Pascal’s triangle, starting from row i up to row n, take each value modulo 998244353, and XOR them together. That gives f(i).

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CF 105977K - VERTeX

We are given a tree with one weight attached to every node, but those node weights are hidden. Instead of node weights, every edge already tells us the sum of its endpoints: for an edge connecting u and v, we are told that this value equals the sum of the unknown positive…

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CF 105977F - 帕累托前沿

We are given a sequence of points indexed from left to right. Each position $i$ has a pair of values $(xi, yi)$. For any query interval $[l, r]$, we look only at the points inside this segment and classify a point $j$ as valid if there is no other point $k$ in the same…

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CF 105977C - 中位数

We are given an array of odd length, and we repeatedly compress it until only one number remains. Each compression step picks three consecutive elements in the current array, replaces those three values with their median, and shortens the array by two elements.

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CF 105981C - Echoes of the Runes

We are given an array of integers and asked a very specific question about its order: whether it can be transformed into a nondecreasing sequence using at most one swap of two elements.

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CF 105992L - 迷宫

The grid describes a rectangular maze where every cell contains a fixed mirror that deterministically redirects a moving ball depending on the direction from which it enters.

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CF 105992F - No explanation

We are given a collection of strings made of lowercase letters. We may choose any subset of these strings and arrange the chosen ones in any order. After concatenation, we obtain a single long string $S$.

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CF 105992A - 序列

We are given a target integer $x$, and we must construct a sequence $a$ of positive integers such that a particular combinational sum over its subsequences equals exactly $x$. For any sequence, we define $f(x)$ as the number of distinct values appearing in a sequence $x$.

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CF 106007J - Prefix GCD

We are working with arrays of length $n$, where each element is an integer between $1$ and $m$. For any fixed array, we compute a value by looking at prefixes: for each prefix ending at position $i$, we take the gcd of all elements in that prefix, and sum these gcd values over…

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CF 106007F - Meen 3mk?

The task is intentionally not a typical algorithmic problem but a fixed-response query. The program receives a single prompt-like input asking who “your uncle” is, where “uncle” is used as a cultural metaphor for dominance or superiority.

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CF 106007C - Pizza Man

We are simulating a pizza shop that serves a sequence of customers, each demanding a fixed number of pizza slices. The shop has a storage capacity of m, and at the beginning of each test case it is completely full.

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CF 106015K - Roads of the Goose

We are given a weighted undirected graph with $N$ towns and $M$ roads. Each road connects two towns and has a travel cost. The original graph is the full road system.

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CF 106015A - Welcome to the Unknown: An Over The Garden Wall Adventure!

The task is intentionally simple: the program receives a single line of input that represents an opening message from a fictional setting. Regardless of the exact wording or formatting of this line, the required behavior never changes.

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CF 105902I - DJ Mr. Spin

We are given a system where everything rotates around the origin, while a second object moves straight outward along the positive x-axis after we choose a starting time. Inside a fixed circle, there are many points attached to the rotating system.

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CF 105901C - One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy

We are simulating a worker walking back and forth along a line of n cells. In each round, he starts at cell 1, walks to cell n, then immediately returns to cell 1. Every time he steps on a cell, he inspects it and clears weeds if they are present.

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CF 105900E - Elementary Magical School of Words

We are looking at strings of length n formed from the 26 lowercase English letters, but we do not care about the actual letters used.

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CF 105900I - Inventing Names

We are given a set of existing strings over lowercase English letters, and a maximum allowed length K. The task is to construct a new string that is not in the given set, has length at most K, and is lexicographically as small as possible among all valid choices.

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CF 105891C - gcd

We are given two very large positive integers, a and b, and for each test case we must decide whether there exists another positive integer x (bounded by $10^{18}$) that simultaneously satisfies two conditions.

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CF 105891E - Printer

We are asked to simulate a very constrained typing process that builds a target string in order, but with a twist: characters do not have to be appended only at the end of the current string.

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CF 105887G - LCA \& MST

We are given a rooted tree where node 1 is the root. Every node carries a numeric weight. From this tree we define a complete graph on the same nodes, but the edge weight between two nodes is not arbitrary: it is determined entirely by the weight of their lowest common…

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CF 106440L - PPIIIGG

We are given a string made only of the characters P, I, and G. For each test case, we must count how many subsequences of this string form a very specific structured pattern.

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CF 106435E - Рамазан и штанга 70кг

We are given a fixed sequence of days, where each day is either a training day or a rest day. We need to imagine a process that starts with a weight of 0 kilograms and evolves day by day according to the same rules every time we start from a chosen day.

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CF 106434B - Зашифрованный массив

We are given an array that we only see in a distorted form. Each element in the observed array could have originally been any integer within a fixed interval around its observed value.

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CF 106430A - Bessie and Trap

We are given a process where a character moves through a sequence of rooms in order, carrying a number of keys that changes as they progress. They start with some initial number of keys, and each room adds a fixed number of keys.

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CF 106429A - Tart Splitting

We are given a string representing a circular arrangement of elements, and another string representing a target pattern. The task is to determine whether the target pattern can be obtained by rotating the original circular arrangement.

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CF 106416L - Late and Disobedient

We are watching a one-dimensional crosswalk of length $L$, represented as the segment from $0$ to $L$. At any moment in time, each pedestrian is a moving point on the real line, starting at position $Xi$ and moving with constant velocity $Vi$, so their position at time $T$ is…

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CF 106398C - Зарядка для хомяков

We are given a row of $N$ hamsters, where $N$ is even. Each hamster is in one of two states: standing or sitting, encoded as characters X and x. In one move, we can pick a single hamster and flip its state.

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CF 106396M - 同生

We are working with a dynamic system of elements that behave like nodes in a graph, where nodes can be merged over time into larger components.

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CF 106387G - The Veneto Relay

We are given a graph where cities are connected by roads, and each road has an associated danger value. Some cities are marked as milestone cities.

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CF 106384K - 天使的羽翼和水晶

The statement provided contains only the title and no functional description of the input or output. There is no definition of the objects involved, no constraints, and no task specification to reason about.

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CF 105900A - Ascending mountains

We are given a set of mountains labeled from 1 to N, where each label also represents its difficulty level. There are M precedence rules of the form A before B, meaning Isa cannot climb mountain B unless she has already climbed mountain A.

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CF 105891J - Win

We are given a fixed lowercase string, and we are allowed to insert up to k characters anywhere in it. Insertions are flexible: we can choose both the position and the character freely each time.

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CF 105891L - easy

We are given an $n times n$ matrix where the values are filled in row-major order. The number in row $i$, column $j$ is simply $(i-1)cdot n + j$, so each row is a consecutive block of integers and every column picks one element from each block at a fixed offset.

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CF 105891I - magic

We are given an integer array of length $n$, and a fixed parameter $k$. We are allowed to repeatedly apply an operation that chooses a center position $x$ such that there are at least $k$ elements on both sides of it.

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CF 105887E - 异或问题

We are trying to place a fixed-length window of consecutive integers on the number line. We choose a starting value a, forming the segment a, a+1, ..., a+l-1, with all values required to stay within [0, n].

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CF 105887L - 栈与重复

We maintain a stack that starts empty and evolves through a sequence of operations. Each operation either pushes a value onto the stack, pops the top element, or triggers a macro-like action that repeats all previously executed operations once more.

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CF 105887I - 答辩

We are given several independent test cases. In each test case there are n students, each belonging to exactly one of m disjoint groups. A directed question network must be constructed between students.

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CF 105887D - 黄金替罪羊

We are given a sequence of moves of length $2n$, where each character instructs a step on a number line: left moves decrease position by 1 and right moves increase it by 1. Some positions in the sequence are fixed as L or R, while others are unknown and must be filled.

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CF 105828G - Время читать книги

We are given a fixed sequence of books, each with a reading time and a latest acceptable day by which it must be finished. The order of reading is not flexible: books are read in the given order from first to last.

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CF 106016L - Good Sets

We are given an array where each position has a value, and we want to form special subsets of indices. The key restriction is that any two chosen indices must be separated by at least one unused position, so we can never pick adjacent indices.

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CF 106016I - W/S TREE

We are given a tree where each node carries a numeric value, which can be positive or negative. We start from node 1 and walk along edges, collecting the value of a node the first time we visit it.

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CF 106016E - a less than b

We are given two strings of equal length, and we are allowed to modify the first string using at most one operation. That operation picks a contiguous segment and reverses it.

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CF 106016C - USD vs Liras

Each day Omar must settle a demand that is expressed in two currencies. For day i, there is a required amount of dollars ai and a conversion rate bi that tells how expensive it is to replace one dollar using liras. On that day Omar can split the payment in two parts.

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CF 106026J - Eternal Feather II

We are given a very long string length $n$, but we are not asked to construct strings explicitly. Instead, we work over strings formed from the fixed alphabet ${y, u, k, o}$, and we want to count how many such strings of length $n$ are “valid”.

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CF 106026F - 乱序法杖

Each sheep starts with an integer health value. We are given a multiset of operations that will be applied in a uniformly random order: some number of “healing” spells and some number of “damage” spells.

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CF 106026E - 简单的数据结构题

We are maintaining a long array where every element is always a 4-bit value, so each value lies in the range from 0 to 15. The array changes over time through range updates, and occasionally we are asked to compute a summary statistic over a range.

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CF 106026A - 备用账号

We are given a list of usernames, and we want to count how many unordered pairs of usernames can be considered “account variants” of each other.

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CF 106026B - 进制变换

We are given two integers, and we are allowed to transform a current value into a new value using a very specific operation.

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CF 106030M - Median Replacement

We are given a list of $n$ positions, and each position $i$ is not fixed to a single value but instead allows any integer in a range $[li, ri]$. So each valid array is formed by independently choosing one value inside each interval.

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CF 106030L - 沙堆

I can’t produce a correct editorial from what you’ve provided, because the actual problem content (input/output format, rules of the sand pile process, constraints) is missing. Right now I only see the title “沙堆” with empty input and output sections.

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CF 106030J - 骰子

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem content is missing. Right now all we have is the title “骰子” (dice), but no statement, constraints, or input/output rules.

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CF 106030I - 算术

The statement you pasted only contains the title “I. 算术” with empty input and output sections, so there is no information about what the problem is actually asking to compute.

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CF 106030G - 魔弹

The problem statement you provided is incomplete. It only contains the title “G. 魔弹” without any description of the input format, output requirements, constraints, or the underlying task.

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CF 106030F - Pico Park

I can’t reliably write a correct Codeforces-style editorial for 106030F - Pico Park because the problem statement in your prompt is missing (only the title is present, with no description of inputs, outputs, or rules).

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CF 106030E - 合成大西瓜

The statement you provided is essentially empty (no input/output description or rules), so there is not enough information to write a correct editorial.

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CF 106030A - 乘积,欧拉函数,求和

I can’t reliably write a correct editorial here because the actual problem content is missing. Right now, the statement only shows a title (“product, Euler function, sum”) but no definitions, no input format, no output format, and no constraints.

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CF 106030C - 连方

I can’t write a correct editorial for Codeforces 106030C (“连方”) from what you provided, because the actual problem statement (input, output, and rules) is missing.

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CF 106503J - Stop, Grid Please No More

We are given a rectangular grid of size $n times m$. Each cell is treated as a unit square, and each square is assigned one of four possible orientations, corresponding to one of the four directions on the grid.

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CF 106503M - Until next time, SCNUCPC!

We are given a line of stalls indexed from left to right. Some positions are already fixed as active stalls, marked as C, while some positions are empty candidates marked as ?. We are allowed to turn some of the ?

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CF 106456L - Tornado Destroys the Parking Lot

The parking lot is a grid where each cell is either empty or contains a car that has a fixed direction of movement.

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CF 106456C - Crossing

We are given a grid where each cell contains a non-negative integer. A traveler starts at the top-left cell and must reach the bottom-right cell. Movement is allowed in four directions and cells may be revisited any number of times.

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CF 106456E - Simple Math

We are given a positive integer $x$, and we want to know whether there exists another positive integer $k$ such that the product $x cdot k$ becomes a number consisting only of the digit 9 in every position.

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CF 106444A - Abadi Pikosom

The underlying object in this problem is not immediately presented in a clean form. After stripping the narrative, the core structure is about permutations of $n$ elements and a quantity called “anger” that is accumulated during a process where people are processed in some…

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CF 106444G - Like a Comet

We are given a sequence of episodes, each carrying a numerical rating and a label that determines whether the episode is “excellent” or “ready”.

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CF 106443M - Meet Me Halfway

We are given a circular arrangement of buildings indexed from 0 to m − 1. Movement is only allowed to adjacent buildings on the circle, so from position i you can move to i + 1 modulo m or i − 1 modulo m, and distance between two positions is the shortest number of such…

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CF 106443D - Digits Duel

We are given a turn-based game that starts with a collection of integers, initially exactly the numbers from 2 up to $N+1$. Two players alternate turns.

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CF 106443E - Evaluation

The task is a direct format conversion problem on a fixed-size grid that represents a chessboard. The input is an 8 by 8 character matrix, where each cell is either a chess piece or an empty square.

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CF 106440G - fufu 购买计划

We are given a set of coins with values from 1 to n, each value appearing exactly once, so we are really choosing a subset of the integers 1 through n. The goal is to pick a subset whose total sum is exactly m. However, selection is restricted by additional prefix rules.

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CF 106440I - 凹包

We are given a set of points in the plane, where one of the points is fixed at the origin $O = (0,0)$. From these points we may select some subset and connect them in some cyclic order to form a simple polygon, meaning a non self-intersecting closed chain.

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CF 106430H - Bessie and GCD

We are given a number $r$, and we want to compute a function built from counting pairs of positive integers under a constraint involving their sum and gcd structure.

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CF 106416G - GATA-CAT

We are asked to construct a short DNA-like string over the alphabet {C, G, A, T}. Each query gives two target values: the number of subsequences equal to C-A-T (CAT degree) and the number of subsequences equal to G-A-T-A (GATA degree), where subsequences preserve order but may…

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CF 106396D - 恶与饿

We are given a sequence of numbers and asked to compute a global value that depends on all increasing subsequences inside it.

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CF 106396E - 梦想

We are given two integer arrays of the same length. Each position contains a pair of numbers, and we are allowed to perform a specific reduction operation that, in essence, keeps replacing a larger value by subtracting the smaller one, similar to repeated Euclidean subtraction.

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CF 106170J - Good Pairs in Graph and Tree

We are given two different structures over the same set of vertices labeled from 1 to N. One structure is a tree, so between any two vertices there is exactly one simple path. The other structure is an arbitrary undirected simple graph.

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CF 106167H - Hectic Harbour II

We are given two stacks of crates. Each crate has a unique label from 1 to n, except one special crate labeled 0, which is “ours” and is not part of the loading order. The initial configuration is fixed: we are told the bottom-to-top order of each stack.

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CF 106164J - Joyeuse

We are given a list of $n$ guests, each carrying a numerical strength value. Every unordered pair of distinct guests forms a dancing duo, and each duo contributes a score equal to the square root of the sum of their two strengths.

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CF 106084L - Stapler

We are given a rectangular screen aligned with the coordinate axes. Its lower-left and upper-right corners define a fixed axis-aligned rectangle in the plane. Separately, we are given a line segment representing the path of a stapler pin, defined by two endpoints.

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CF 106084G - Gamer Bafuko

We are given a tree with weighted edges of weight 1, plus one additional special edge called a portal that connects two fixed vertices $x$ and $y$. The portal can be used any number of times, and every use has cost 0.

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CF 106084A - Take It or Double It

We are given a simple interactive story that reduces to a decision about whether a value should be accepted immediately or allowed to “grow” once more. A starting amount of money $x$ is offered to the first person.

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CF 106082C - Letter Frequency

We are given a text string consisting of letters, and the task is to compute how many times each distinct letter appears.

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CF 106082E - Word Tree

I can’t write a correct editorial yet because the actual problem statement for Codeforces 106082E - Word Tree isn’t included in your message (it looks truncated to just the title and placeholder text).

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CF 106073L - LLMs

We are given three ingredients: a dictionary of words where each word has a fixed 2D integer vector, a long text that acts as a reference corpus, and a set of queries.

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CF 106073G - Generating patterns

We are given a target binary string of length $N$, and we start from an all-zero array of the same length. We are allowed to perform an operation that picks a starting position $i$ and XORs a fixed 8-bit pattern $B$ onto the array, aligned so that $B[j]$ affects position $i+j$…

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CF 106073D - Dominoes

We are given a small collection of domino tiles, each tile labeled with two numbers from 1 to 6. A tile can be used in a sequence if one of its ends matches the currently exposed number at either the left or right end of an evolving chain.

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CF 106072L - Xor Mirror

We are working with a sequence of length $N$, where $N$ is a power of two and can be as large as $2^{18}$. The array supports two operations that both act on a segment $[l, r)$.

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CF 106072E - Zero

We are asked to count sequences of length $n$, where each element is an integer in the range $[0, 2^m - 1]$. Two conditions must hold simultaneously. First, no two adjacent elements are allowed to be equal.

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CF 106072G - Square Permutation II

We are given two permutations of the same length, call them $p$ and $q$. Each position $i$ represents a paired state: one value from $p$ and one value from $q$.

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CF 106068L - Triangle hole

We start with a single equilateral triangle whose size is described by its height $H$. The process is iterative. In each operation, the triangle is subdivided into four congruent equilateral triangles, and only the central one is kept while the other three are discarded.

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CF 106068G - Fire Coverage

We are working on a rectangular city grid with $N$ rows and $M$ columns. You are allowed to place $K$ fire stations on arbitrary grid cells.

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CF 106068B - SCPC is Typing...

We are given a list of positions on a number line, each position representing where a person lives. The goal is to choose one of the given positions as a meeting point so that the sum of walking distances from all people to that chosen point is as small as possible.

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CF 106059K - Karl's Dormitory Allocation

We are given a list of numerical valuations, one per student, representing how much each student values a dormitory spot. Only the top m students by declared value will receive dormitory rights.

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CF 106059C - Chess Pieces

We are given three labeled points in the plane, and each point can be moved repeatedly. A single move picks one of the points and relocates it anywhere in the plane, but under a strict geometric constraint: the angle formed at the moved point by the segments to the other two…

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CF 106059E - Echoes on the Endless Line

We are given positions of enemies and positions of observers on a number line. For each observer, we care about enemies that lie within a specific distance band from them. Each observer at position b defines two radii.

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CF 106057D - Zero is not an option!

We are given a rectangular grid where each cell contains a non-negative integer. From each row, we must pick exactly one element. After selecting one number per row, we compute the bitwise AND of all chosen values.

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CF 105986M - Maximize the total of maximum

We are given a sequence and a constant threshold value. For every contiguous subarray, we compute its sum, then replace that sum by the larger of the sum and the constant. The value of the whole array is defined as the sum of these adjusted subarray values over all subarrays.

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