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CF 105629H - 急死地

I can write a full editorial, but I am missing the actual problem content for Codeforces 105629H - 急死地. The statement you pasted only shows the title and placeholders for input/output, so there is no description of what the task is, what operations are allowed, or what…

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CF 105629G - 回文串

I don’t have the actual statement for Codeforces 105629G “回文串” in the prompt, and without it I can’t reliably reconstruct the intended problem.

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CF 105629E - 工作调度

The input section and full problem statement are missing from what you provided, so there is no way to reconstruct what “工作调度” (Work Scheduling) is actually asking, nor what constraints or operations define the task.

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CF 105629D - 阿斯特赖亚

I can’t write a correct editorial for this problem as-is because the actual problem statement is missing. What you provided only includes the title, time/memory limits, and empty input/output sections, but none of the essential details such as what the input describes, what…

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CF 105629A - 最强辅助

We are given a sequence-like structure, but the statement itself is extremely compressed, so the only meaningful interpretation we can reconstruct is that the problem expects us to process one or more inputs and produce a single computed output for each case.

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CF 105629C - 不够聪明的贝贝

The problem statement for Codeforces 105629C (“不够聪明的贝贝”) is not included in your prompt, so there is no way to reconstruct a correct solution or write a meaningful editorial without risking fabrication.

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CF 105631L - LCM and GCD

We are asked to fill an $n times m$ matrix with positive integers up to $10^9$. Instead of arbitrary values, each row and column must satisfy a very specific aggregate constraint.

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CF 105631J - Jazz Music from the Er-th

We are given several independent test cases. Each test case describes a sequence of integers, where each element represents a “rhythmicity value” of a slice of music. There is also a fixed lower bound L.

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CF 105631I - Isla Loves Christmas

We are given a sequence of colored lights laid out in a line. Each position has a color label, and multiple positions may share the same color. On top of this static array, we process a sequence of update operations.

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CF 105631G - General Checksum Calculation

We are given an array of integers, and we need to answer multiple independent queries. Each query specifies a range in the array and a threshold value.

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CF 105631F - Finding Maxi-strings

We are given a string that keeps changing over time, and after each change we must recompute a value that depends only on the current form of the string. For any string $t$, consider all substrings of the current string $s$.

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CF 105631B - Bruhcaea Simulator

We are given two polyline paths that evolve over a shared time axis. One path is defined at odd time steps and the other at even time steps. Each path has $m$ vertices, and at each step its position is an integer height between 1 and $n$.

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CF 105631C - Contest Reactions

The system maintains a live programming contest scoreboard. There are several teams, indexed from 0 to k, and submissions arrive in strictly increasing timestamp order.

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CF 105632M - Rejection Sampling

We are given a universe of elements from 1 to n, and each element i carries a weight ai. The goal is to design a randomized procedure that produces subsets of fixed size k using independent coin flips, followed by rejection of invalid outcomes.

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CF 105632J - Balance in All Things

We are given 2n labeled players, all starting with score zero. The process runs for k rounds, and in every round we must split all players into disjoint pairs. Each pair plays a match, and exactly one point is transferred between the two participants.

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CF 105632I - Best Friend, Worst Enemy

We are given a sequence of points, and they arrive one by one. Each point represents a person with coordinates $(xi, yi)$.

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CF 105632F - Infinite Loop

We are given a fixed pattern of work that repeats every day forever. Each day has a timeline of k hours, and at the start of every day exactly n tasks appear. Task i of a day appears at a known hour ai within that day and requires bi hours of uninterrupted processing time.

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CF 105632E - Permutation Routing

We are given a tree where each vertex holds exactly one number, and these numbers form a permutation of 1 through n. The goal is to transform this permutation into the identity configuration, meaning vertex i must end up holding value i.

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CF 105632B - Rolling Stones

We are given a triangular grid whose rows grow as we go down, forming a total of roughly $n^2$ cells arranged in $n$ rows. Each cell contains a number from 1 to 4. We also have a tetrahedral die that moves on this grid.

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CF 105632C - Middle Point

We start with four lattice points forming an axis-aligned rectangle: the origin, the point on the x-axis at distance A, the point on the y-axis at distance B, and the opposite corner (A, B).

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CF 105633L - Peculiar Protocol

We are given a sequence of banknotes in a fixed order. Each banknote has a value, and we repeatedly perform an operation where we choose a contiguous block of currently remaining notes whose sum fits a specific arithmetic form, remove that block entirely, and then compress the…

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CF 105633J - Mixing Solutions

We are given several containers of a solution. Each container has a fixed amount of liquid, but the amount of dissolved substance inside each unit of liquid is not known exactly.

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CF 105633I - Greatest of the Greatest Common Divisors

We are given an array of positive integers and multiple queries, each query specifying a contiguous segment of that array. For each segment, we conceptually consider every pair of distinct indices inside it and compute the gcd of the two corresponding values.

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CF 105633F - The Farthest Point

We are standing on a corner of a rectangular box and are only allowed to move along its surface, not through the interior. From that starting corner, we want the point on the surface that is as far as possible in terms of shortest surface distance.

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CF 105633E - E-Circuit Is Now on Sale!

The grid describes a physical layout of components that behave like nodes in a computation tree. Each non-empty cell contains a unit, and every unit connects only to its orthogonally adjacent neighbors.

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CF 105633A - Ribbon on the Christmas Present

We are given a linear ribbon split into $n$ consecutive sections. Each section has a target dye level, and higher numbers correspond to darker shades. The ribbon starts completely white, and we need to transform it into the target pattern using dye operations.

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CF 105633C - Omnes Viae Yokohamam Ducunt?

We are given a set of cities connected by candidate undirected roads. Each city has a weight that represents its importance. Among these cities, city 1 is the capital, Yokohama.

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CF 105638L - Kyooma Loves Numbers

We are given a number written in base 15, where digits can be 0-9 and A-E representing values 10-14. We are allowed to perform at most one swap between two positions in the digit string.

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CF 105638J - Boboge and Card Shuffle

We are given a sequence of cards. Each card has a suit among four types and a number. Inside each suit, numbers are unique and come from the same range, so every suit behaves like a permutation of the same value set.

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CF 105638I - Hile and Array

We are given a fixed sequence of operations applied to a single running value. Each operation in the sequence is one of three types: addition by a constant, subtraction by a constant, or multiplication by a constant. The sequence is applied in order from left to right.

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CF 105638F - Reborn and TFT

We are given a pool of champions, each champion being described by a binary string over a fixed set of traits. A 1 at position j means that champion possesses trait j.

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CF 105638E - Piza Removes Nothing

We are given a tree where each edge carries a weight that can be positive or negative. Between any two nodes there is exactly one simple path, so the “shortest path between two nodes” is not a choice among multiple routes, it is simply that unique tree path.

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CF 105638B - Hile and Fx

We are given a target number for each test case, and we need to decide whether it can be represented as a sum of a carefully constructed integer and the sum of its digits.

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CF 105638A - Reborn and HearthStone

We are given a one-on-one fight between two minions. Each minion has health and attack. The fight proceeds in discrete rounds. In each round, Reborn’s minion strikes first, reducing the enemy’s health by its attack value.

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CF 105646K - Power Divisions

We are given an array where every element is a power of two. So each value looks like $2^{ai}$, meaning the entire array is just a multiset of bit positions, each element contributing a single set bit in a binary number. We need to split this array into contiguous segments.

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CF 105646L - Chords

We are given a circle with an even number of points, and each point is paired with exactly one other point, forming a perfect matching. Each pair defines a chord inside the circle.

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CF 105646I - Mercenaries

We are working with a one-dimensional sequence of cities arranged from left to right. Each city represents a starting point for a mercenary, and between consecutive cities there are shops.

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CF 105646H - Weather Forecast

We are given a sequence of integers and we want to split it into exactly $k$ contiguous segments. Each segment has an average value, computed as the sum of its elements divided by its length.

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CF 105646G - Puzzle II

We are given two binary strings of equal length. Each position contains either 0 or 1. We are also given an integer k, and we are allowed to perform an operation that selects a cyclic segment of length k in the first string and another cyclic segment of the same length in the…

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CF 105646F - Waterfall Matrix

We are given an $n times n$ matrix that must satisfy a strong monotonicity rule: values never increase when moving right or downward. In other words, every row is nonincreasing left to right and every column is nonincreasing top to bottom.

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CF 105646D - Xor Partitions

We are given a sequence of integers and we consider every possible way to split it into contiguous segments. Each segment contributes a value equal to the bitwise xor of its elements, and a partition’s score is the product of these segment xors.

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CF 105646E - Pattern Search II

We are working with an infinite binary string constructed from the Fibonacci word recurrence. Instead of expanding it explicitly, we only rely on its recursive structure and the key property that any sufficiently long segment contains both characters and behaves “mixed” in…

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CF 105646B - Roars III

We are given a tree where some vertices initially contain tokens. The twist is that we must evaluate the same movement process for every possible choice of root independently, and for each root compute how many moves can be made under an optimal strategy.

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CF 105646A - Interesting Paths

We are given a directed acyclic graph with a fixed start vertex 1 and a fixed end vertex n. The task is not to find a single path, but to construct as long a sequence of valid 1-to-n paths as possible, with a constraint that makes each new path “bring something new” compared…

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CF 105646C - Radars

We are given an $n times n$ grid. Every cell has a non-negative cost, and placing a radar in that cell covers a large square region of fixed size that depends on $n$.

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CF 105657M - Make It Divisible

We are given an array $b1, b2, dots, bn$. We are allowed to choose an integer shift $x$ between 1 and $k$, and apply it to every element, forming a new array $ai = bi + x$.

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CF 105657K - Kind of Bingo

A grid is filled with numbers, and these numbers describe an order in which cells will be marked. You can think of the process as reading a permutation of all grid cells and activating them one by one. After each activation, some subset of cells becomes marked.

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CF 105657L - Let's Go! New Adventure

We are given a sequence of days, where each day produces a certain amount of experience if we play a character on that day. A character can only be played on a continuous segment of days, and once we stop using that character, it is discarded.

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CF 105657J - Japanese Bands

We are assigning labels to two collections of cards. One collection contains n1 character cards and the other contains n2 music cards. Every card receives an integer value between 1 and m, and repetition is allowed, so the final state of each side is a multiset rather than a set.

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CF 105657H - Heavy-light Decomposition

We are given a partition of the numbers from 1 to n into k consecutive segments. Each segment is meant to represent a heavy chain in some heavy-light decomposition of a rooted tree, where inside a chain every vertex is connected to the next one, and the last vertex of the…

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CF 105657I - Identify Chord

We are given a cycle graph with vertices labeled from 1 to n in circular order, so each vertex i is connected to i−1 and i+1 modulo n. On top of this cycle, exactly one extra edge is added between two vertices that are not neighbors on the cycle.

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CF 105657G - Gathering Mushrooms

We are given a directed graph on n nodes where every node has exactly one outgoing edge, defined by an array a. If we stand at node i, we deterministically move to node a[i].

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CF 105657D - Dividing Sequence

We are given a sequence and we must split its elements into two subsequences, called $B$ and $C$, without changing the original order inside either subsequence. Every element of the original array goes to exactly one of them.

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CF 105657E - Elevator II

Each task represents a person who must be picked up from a starting floor and dropped at a higher floor using a single elevator. The elevator begins at some initial floor and can only carry one person at a time.

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CF 105657F - Fuzzy Ranking

We are given several complete rankings of the same set of universities. Each ranking is a permutation, so it defines a strict order from best to worst. From these rankings, we build a derived notion of “superiority”.

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CF 105657C - Catch the Star

We are given a fixed horizontal segment on the x-axis, from $x=l$ to $x=r$, but the endpoints are forbidden, so we only care about positions strictly inside this interval.

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CF 105657B - Barkley III

We are given an array of pig ratings, where each value is a 63-bit integer. The core operation that defines all behavior is bitwise AND, so every rating can only lose bits over time and never gain new ones unless explicitly assigned. The system supports three types of operations.

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CF 105657A - AUS

We are given three strings over the lowercase English alphabet, and we are allowed to define a mapping from characters to characters. This mapping is not required to be bijective, multiple letters can map to the same letter, but every character must map to exactly one character.

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CF 105666E - Inverse Knapsack

The task is a constructive number theory problem disguised in a knapsack-style encoding system. We are given a target value and must construct a selection of special items whose combined contribution encodes that target through modular arithmetic constraints.

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CF 105666D - Drawing Lines

We are working with a system where a large modulus $D$ is built from several prime factors, and the task is to construct a controlled linear combination of specially structured values so that the resulting sum matches a target residue modulo $D$.

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CF 105666C - Not-So-Long Increasing Subsequence

We are given a permutation and we are asked to decide whether it is possible to extract a subsequence of length $K$ with a strong structural restriction: inside that chosen subsequence, the elements must be decomposable into a small number of strictly decreasing sequences.

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CF 105666A - Number Reduction

We are working with integers that can “transform” into smaller integers through a digit-based reduction rule. Starting from a number, you are allowed to repeatedly replace it by dividing it by one of its digits, but only if that digit actually appears in its decimal…

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CF 105666B - Monster Fighting

We are given a set of our own monsters, each described by two strength values. The first value represents how strong that monster is when fighting type 0 enemies, and the second value represents its strength against type 1 enemies.

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CF 105667E - Colored Blocks

We are given a sequence of colored blocks, represented as an array where each position contains a color identifier. The task is to split this sequence into the minimum number of subsequences such that each subsequence satisfies a monotonic consistency condition on colors.

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CF 105667D - Path Partition

We are given a graph where the task is to decompose its edges into simple paths, each of length exactly three edges. In other words, every edge must belong to exactly one path, and every path must consist of four distinct vertices connected consecutively.

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CF 105667C - MIT Tour

The structure described in this problem is a rooted tree where each vertex represents a room and each edge represents a corridor with a travel cost. From the root, every vertex has a well-defined depth equal to its distance in edges from the root.

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CF 105667B - Snakes on a Grid

We are working on a grid where each cell is either filled or empty, and each query gives us a rectangular subgrid. For every query, we need to decide whether the filled cells inside that rectangle form a valid structure called a snake.

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CF 105667A - Toy Marbles

We are given a system of $N$ containers, each initially holding a single marble. Every container has a target container where its marble is supposed to end up. That target is given by an array $c$, where $ci$ tells us the destination of the marble currently in container $i$.

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CF 105668H - Toy Marbles

We are given a collection of containers, each initially holding a marble that is labeled by a target container index. Every container has exactly one marble at the start, but marbles are not necessarily in the correct place.

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CF 105668I - Snakes on a Grid

We are working on a rectangular grid where each cell is either empty or belongs to a connected structure. The grid is fixed, and for each query we are given a sub-rectangle.

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CF 105668G - Grid and Numbers Game

We are given a grid of integers. A move in the game repeatedly modifies the grid until no move is possible anymore. The key structural property is that while values may change through the game, the relative ordering between cells never changes.

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CF 105668E - Missing Number Queries

We are given an array that is being updated over time, and we must answer queries about what value can safely be used from a subarray under a specific rule involving “missing” numbers.

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CF 105668D - Scoreboard Screenshots

We are given several screenshots of a scoreboard, where each screenshot records the scores of the same set of teams at some moment in time. Each screenshot is an array of length $K$, and the $i$-th value represents the score of team $i$ at that moment.

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CF 105668A - MIT Time

We are given a single integer, and we must classify it into a very small set of time labels that depend on which range the number falls into.

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CF 105668C - Traveling Salesman Problem

We are given a set of points on a 2D plane. Each point represents a “city”, and the task is to compute the length of the shortest possible route that starts at some city, visits every city exactly once, and returns to the starting city.

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CF 105668B - M(IT)+

We are given a string that is built from two kinds of characters, where one of them acts like a structural marker and the other forms a repeating pattern.

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CF 105674D - Поиск сокровищ

We are given a grid with $k$ rows and $n$ columns. Each cell may or may not contain a mineral. Instead of observing the grid directly, we are given the output of a scanner.

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CF 105674B - Простоватые числа

We are given two extremely large integers $l$ and $r$, written as decimal strings, and we need to count how many integers in the inclusive range $[l, r]$ satisfy a special digit property. A number is considered valid when the product of all its decimal digits is a prime number.

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CF 105674A - Кузнечик 2D

We are working on a rectangular grid with coordinates increasing to the right and upward. The piece starts at the bottom-left cell, which is $(1,1)$, and the goal is to reach the top-right cell $(n,m)$.

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CF 105674C - Кислотные дожди

We start with a sequence of blocks placed in a line, each block having a fixed height. Initially every block is its own segment.

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CF 105677L - The Charioteer

We are controlling a chariot moving on an infinite integer grid. The starting state is fixed at the origin, and each second we choose a direction for the chariot.

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CF 105677M - Ook? Ook!

We are given a word written in a very restricted alphabet consisting only of the characters O and K. This word is not meant to be processed directly as text. Instead, it must be translated into a sequence of symbols from a pseudo-Morse system that only uses two characters: .

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CF 105677J - Recovering the Tablet

The grid is partially partitioned by black cells into horizontal and vertical segments. Every white cell belongs to exactly one maximal horizontal segment and exactly one maximal vertical segment. Each such segment has a prescribed sum, given in the input.

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CF 105677K - Disk Covering

We are given several disks drawn on a plane. Each disk is a filled circle, defined by a center point and a radius. The disks act like regions that become dangerous, and we are interested in the geometry of the remaining safe space.

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CF 105677I - Divination

We are given a collection of N objects, each object representing a paper. Every paper contains a list of references to other papers, forming a directed graph where an arrow goes from a paper to each paper it cites.

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CF 105677G - Guess How the Ballet Will End

We are given a one-dimensional stage of length R, where valid positions run from 0 to R. A group of dancers exists, but we never see their initial positions. We only know that every dancer repeatedly applies the same sequence of horizontal moves.

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CF 105677H - The king of SWERC

We are given a sequence of names representing votes in an election. Each line corresponds to one vote for a candidate, and each candidate is identified by a single uppercase string. The task is to determine which candidate received strictly more votes than every other candidate.

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CF 105677F - Yaxchilán Maze

We are given a collection of rooms connected over time by corridors that appear and disappear. Each corridor becomes available at a specific hour and remains usable for a fixed duration of $M$ hours, after which it vanishes.

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CF 105677E - Building the Fort

We are given a set of N distinct lattice points on a huge integer grid. These points are mandatory: they must appear as vertices of a simple polygon we construct.

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CF 105677D - Temple Architecture

We are given a line of towers, each positioned at integer coordinates from left to right, with a height assigned to every position. All heights are distinct, so there is a unique tallest tower.

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CF 105677B - Divine Gifting

We are given a collection of gifts, each with a preferred “ideal” delivery day. For every gift, we must choose an actual delivery day. That chosen day is not allowed to be earlier than its ideal day, but it can be later.

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CF 105677A - Titanomachy

We are given a sequence of numbers representing the current “power balance” between two armies arranged in pairs. Each position contributes an integer value, and that value can change over time in a uniform way across the entire array. Two operations happen online.

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CF 105677C - Phryctoria

We are given two strings, a source string $S$ and a target string $T$. Lusius wants to transmit a shortened version of $S$ using a very unusual compression rule: any substring of $S$ can be replaced by a special wildcard character .

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CF 105683F - Змейка

We are given a very large rectangular grid of size $w times h$. A snake of fixed length $k$ must be placed in a “straightened” form, meaning it occupies exactly $k$ consecutive cells either horizontally in one row or vertically in one column.

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CF 105683D - Линия метро

We are given a tree that is built incrementally. The first district is the center of the city, and every next district is attached to one previously built district, so the structure is always a rooted tree with node 1 as the root. Each district has a population value.

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CF 105683E - Взаимно-упрощенные

We are asked to count pairs of distinct integers $a$ and $b$ with $1 le a < b le n$, such that the pair has exactly two common divisors. The only numbers that are guaranteed to divide both $a$ and $b$ are the divisors of their greatest common divisor.

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CF 105683A - Бег в две стороны

We are given two ordered collections of target points on a line: one set lies strictly to the right of the origin and the other strictly to the left. A robot starts at position 0 and must visit every point in both sets.

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CF 105683C - Плакат

We are given a string of length $n$, representing a poster already filled with uppercase Latin letters. The task is to modify this string so that the substring “NEIMARK” appears as many times as possible, while balancing a cost model: changing any character costs 1 unit of…

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CF 105683B - Бег в одну сторону

Two objects move strictly to the right on a number line. The human starts one meter ahead of the robot and moves with constant speed v1 meters per second, meaning after t seconds the human has advanced exactly t · v1 meters beyond its initial offset.

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CF 105684E - Вы все уже призёры

We are given a sequence of diploma levels and a sequence of prize types, and we must count how many consistent ways exist to assign prizes to participants grouped by diploma level. There are $m$ diploma categories.

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