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CF 105167E - Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv

We are given a prime modulus $p$ and a multiset of exactly $p-1$ non-zero residues modulo $p$. These values are not just numbers to use in isolation, they must each be assigned to exactly one edge of a tree with vertices labeled from $0$ to $p-1$.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 156

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CF 105167F - Fraudulent Exam

We are given a grid of students sitting in an exam hall. Each cell contains a student with a known IQ value. We want to select a group of students such that two conditions are satisfied at the same time. First, the group must be connected in the grid sense.

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CF 105167A - Attending Classes

The structure is a tree with $n$ locations connected by $n-1$ roads, so between any two places there is exactly one simple path.

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CF 105167D - Dice Game

We are given several dice, each die currently showing some value from a fixed set of allowed face values. The game lasts for a fixed number of rounds.

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CF 105167C - Counting Rectangles

We are given a grid drawn using horizontal and vertical lines. The grid is fully defined by having $n$ horizontal lines and $m$ vertical lines, evenly spaced in the plane.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 155

Let the negaFibonacci code of $x$ be the binary sequence $\alpha = (\alpha_k)_{k \ge 0}$ with $\alpha_k \in {0,1}$ and no consecutive $1$s, and let $x = \sum_{k \ge 0} \alpha_k F_{k+2},$ where $F_0 =...

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 154

We restart from the geometric structure actually defined by the gray segments.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 153

Let the navigation pile be as defined in (144), where the structure consists of nodes $1,2,\dots,n$ and each node stores exactly two navigation pointers, corresponding to its two possible links in the...

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 152

A correct proof must derive the tree structure and the query behavior directly from Algorithm V, without assuming Cartesian-tree or LCA properties.

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CF 105176N - 圣诞树

I can’t write a correct Codeforces editorial for this problem yet because the actual problem content is missing.

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CF 105176L - 勘探队

I can’t produce a correct Codeforces-style editorial from just the title and empty I/O. “105176L - 勘探队” is missing the actual problem statement, constraints, and samples.

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CF 105176K - 崩坏:星穹铁道

The problem as provided does not contain any usable statement beyond the title. There is no description of the input format, output requirements, constraints, or even the task to be solved.

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CF 105176I - 命令行

The problem statement is effectively missing here. All we have is the title “命令行” and empty input/output sections, which is not enough to reconstruct the task.

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CF 105176F - Everyone's ALL IN

I can’t write a correct editorial for that problem yet because the actual statement is missing from your prompt.

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CF 105176E - 雪中楼

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem content is missing. Right now the statement only shows the title (“雪中楼”) and placeholders for input/output, but none of the real problem definition, constraints, or samples.

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CF 105176D - 瑟莉姆的宴会

I don’t have the actual problem statement content for Codeforces 105176D - 瑟莉姆的宴会 from what you provided - only the title. Without the rules, input format, and task description, I can’t reliably reconstruct the solution or write a correct editorial.

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CF 105176C - 榕树之心

The problem statement you provided is essentially empty, so there is no defined input format, output requirement, or constraints to base an editorial on.

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CF 105176B - 转呀转

I can’t write a correct editorial from that input because the actual problem statement is missing. Right now I only see the title “转呀转” with no description, input/output format, or constraints.

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CF 105168C - Chain Reaction

We are given a system of $n$ lamps and $n$ buttons indexed from 1 to $n$. All lamps start turned off. Pressing button $i$ flips the state of every lamp whose index is divisible by $i$, so it affects a regular arithmetic structure over the lamps rather than a local segment.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 151

We correct the reduction by using the _proper Euler tour RMQ construction_, not the incorrect interval on first-occurrence indices alone.

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CF 105168E - Cyber Hide-and-Seek

We are given a tree rooted at node 1, and a hidden target node $x$. The only way to learn about $x$ is through interactive queries.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 150

We restart from a correct linear-time construction and give a complete justification.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 15

We work over integers with bitwise XOR $\oplus$ and ordinary addition/subtraction.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 149

A correct preprocessing procedure must define all auxiliary structures in terms of a single deterministic traversal of the rooted forest, and each structure must be tied to a precise traversal event.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 148

The flaw in the original solution is that it replaces the structure of $S$ with an unproved global equivalence.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 147

The key correction is that Algorithm V must be followed literally: vertices are scanned in the prescribed external order $v_1,\dots,v_n$, and pointers $\pi_v,\beta_v,\alpha_v$ are updated only when th...

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 146

We restart from the formal definitions in (134)–(137) and use only their structural consequences.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 145

Let (137) denote the formula in Section 7.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 144

In a sideways heap, nodes are indexed so that each node $j \ge 2$ has a unique parent $k = \lfloor j/2 \rfloor$, and the two children of $k$ are $2k$ and $2k+1$ as in the binary-heap structure describ...

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 143

Represent the 8×8 board as a 64-bit word, where each bit corresponds to a square.

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CF 105168L - Terabyte Connection

We are given a set of independent file chunks that behave like delayed-start tasks. Each chunk becomes available for connection at a specific moment $pi$, and once we start downloading that chunk, it takes exactly $ti$ seconds to finish.

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CF 105168K - Uniform Dispersion

We are given a set of points on a 2D plane. The task is to place exactly $k$ vertical lines and $k$ horizontal lines so that no line passes through any point, and these lines partition the plane into $(k+1)times(k+1)$ rectangular regions.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 142

We work with subcubes (implicants) on variables $x_1,\dots,x_n$, where each coordinate is in $\{x_i,\bar x_i, *\}$.

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CF 105168J - Shifting Tournament

We are given a tournament with $2^k$ teams labeled from 1 to $2^k$. The competition runs in rounds, and each round pairs adjacent teams in the current ordering, eliminates one from each pair, and keeps the survivors in order for the next round.

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CF 105168I - Aeroplane Chess

We are simulating a stochastic movement on a line segment labeled from 1 to n, with a special absorbing condition at position 0 that represents the end of the game.

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CF 105168H - Seeking Allies

We are given a line of people, initially with no relationships between any pair. Over time, we are given a sequence of constraints.

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CF 105168G - Color Contagion

We are given a rooted tree where vertex 1 is already colored at the start. All other vertices begin uncolored. A move consists of choosing any uncolored vertex whose parent in the rooted tree is already colored, and coloring it immediately.

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CF 105168F - Double Holding

We are given two independent sequences of time intervals, one per track in a rhythm game. Each interval represents a “hold note”, meaning during that time range the player must keep a finger pressed on that track. A single finger is enough to handle a hold on one track.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 141

We restart the construction from a correct state model of representation counts and derive valid bit-parallel update rules.

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CF 105168D - XOR Pairing

We are given several independent test cases. In each test case, there is an array of integers and a target value $k$.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 140

Let $x,y,z \in {0,+1,-1}$.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 14

Let $T=(t_\alpha)_{\alpha\in\{0,1\}^*}$.

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 3

Each input word $a_{i,j}$ is read in the given row-major order and assigned the column index $j$.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 139

Represent each signed bit $x \in {-1,0,1}$ by two signed bits $(x^+,x^-)$ defined by x^+ = \begin{cases} 1 & x=1\\ 0 & x\in\{0,-1\} \end{cases}

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 138

The previous solution correctly identified a valid encoding, but it failed to justify the “class $V_a$ is best” requirement in Knuth’s sense.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 137

We restart from a correct packed-word model and derive the operation at the level of bitplanes, ensuring that every symbol is handled as a complete 2-bit field.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 135

Start from representation (128), which encodes the three truth values as ordered Boolean pairs 0=(0,0),\quad *=(0,1),\quad 1=(1,1), so that $x=(x_0,x_1)$ with $x_0 \le x_1$.

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CF 105168B - Solo Leveling

We are simulating a progression system where a character starts with two independent attributes, A and B, both initially fixed at 10. There are n monsters, and each monster i can only be defeated if the character has at least ai in A and at least bi in B.

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CF 105168A - Crazy Yesterday

We are given a sequence of queries, where each query tells us what day of the week “today” is, encoded as an integer from 1 to 7. The mapping is fixed: 1 corresponds to Monday, 2 to Tuesday, and so on until 7 corresponds to Sunday.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 134

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CF 105170I - The Easiest Problem

The task gives a single fixed sentence as input: “Scan the QR code to sign in now.”. The goal is not to transform it or interpret it, but to compute a simple property of this exact text, namely how many characters in it are lowercase English letters from a to z.

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CF 105170L - Recharge

We are simulating a charging system for an activated item with a fixed capacity. Each test case gives a capacity k and a collection of rooms: x small rooms and y large rooms.

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CF 105170K - String Divide II

We are given a string of lowercase letters and an integer $k$. The task is to locate a contiguous block inside the string that can be split into $k$ consecutive segments, where every segment is identical in content and length.

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CF 105170J - Lone Trail

We are given a tree with n nodes. Each node i starts with an initial energy value bi and also has a “growth rate” ai. After x days, if nothing changed, node i would have value bi + x·ai.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 133

Let $G=(V,E)$.

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CF 105170H - Games on the Ads 2: Painting

We are given an $n times n$ grid where every row and every column has an associated brush. Each brush has a fixed color, and the row brushes and column brushes together form two independent permutations of the colors $1 ldots n$.

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CF 105170F - Best Player

Each test case describes a tournament where players repeatedly face each other in pairwise duels. Every duel contributes a potentially different score to both participants, but the score is not fully fixed.

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CF 105170G - Platform Game

The robot moves in a very rigid vertical and horizontal pattern inside a plane that contains several disjoint horizontal segments. Each segment acts like a one-way conveyor when the robot is on it, always pushing the robot to the right endpoint.

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CF 105170E - Connected Components

We are given a set of $n$ kingdoms arranged by their indices from 1 to $n$. Each kingdom has two numeric attributes, $ai$ and $bi$. These attributes define a geometric condition under which two kingdoms become directly connected by an undirected road.

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CF 105170D - Parallel Lines

We are given a set of points in the plane, and we are told that in the original hidden construction these points were partitioned into exactly $k$ distinct straight lines, and all those lines were parallel to each other.

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CF 105170B - Dfs Order 0.5

We are given a rooted tree where each vertex has a value. We perform a depth-first traversal starting from the root, but the order in which we visit children of any node is completely flexible.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 132

Let $G$ be a graph on $V=\{0,1,\dots,n-1\}$.

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CF 105170A - Eminor Array

We are asked to count how many strictly increasing sequences can be formed using integers from the range $1$ to $2n-1$, with one additional structural restriction on triples of consecutive chosen elements.

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CF 105170C - Fibonacci Sum

We are given a very large integer written in binary, call it n. Instead of interpreting it as a number in the usual way and looping from 1 to n, we are asked to work directly with its binary representation.

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CF 105172L - Nanami, Nanami, Nanami...

We are given several independent test cases. In each test case, there is a list of integers. We are allowed to remove exactly one element from this list.

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CF 105172F - Nanami and Snowflakes

The input describes several undirected graphs, and each graph is supposed to represent a “snowflake-like” structure. The task is to decide whether each graph matches a very rigid pattern. The structure we are looking for can be understood in two layers.

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CF 105172K - Divide the Sequence (hard version)

We are given an integer array and we are allowed to cut it into exactly $k$ contiguous segments. Once the array is split, each segment is evaluated independently: inside a segment, we look at every subarray and count how many of those subarrays have sum exactly equal to a…

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CF 105172H - Nanami and the Block Puzzle

We are given a binary target pattern of length $n$, describing a 2×n grid where each column has two cells. A cell marked as 1 must be covered exactly once by placed tiles, while a cell marked as 0 must remain uncovered.

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CF 105172J - Divide the Sequence (easy version)

We are given a sequence of integers and we must cut it into exactly $k$ consecutive pieces. Once the sequence is split, we look inside each piece and count how many subarrays inside that piece have sum exactly equal to a fixed value $x$.

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CF 105172I - Nanami and the Golden Sunlight Sunflower Fields

We are given an $n times n$ grid where some cells are already occupied. Each occupied cell behaves like a node in a grid graph, and edges exist between orthogonally adjacent cells.

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CF 105172G - Nanami and the LLM Training Problem

Codeforces 105172G: Nanami and the LLM Training Problem

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CF 105172D - Nanami and the Constructive Problem

We are given an array of values, but the array itself is not what we are optimizing over. Instead, we must decide which positions to “activate” or “color” by producing a binary string. Each position is either chosen or not chosen.

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CF 105172E - Nanami and the Boy

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CF 105172C - Nanami and the House Protecting Problem

We are given a grid where each cell is either empty, already blocked, or contains a house. Empty cells can potentially be turned into walls, and each such conversion has a given cost.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 131

We use the standard representation from Section 7.

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CF 105172A - Nanami and Subtree of Tree

We are given a tree with $n$ nodes. One node is chosen as a fixed “safe” node $m$. Two players alternate moves starting from the full tree. A move consists of choosing an edge, removing it, and discarding the entire component that does not contain node $m$.

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CF 105172B - Nanami and Rectangles Putting Problem

We are maintaining a large empty rectangular board of size $n times m$, initially uncovered. Over time, we receive operations that either place a smaller axis-aligned rectangle onto the board or remove a previously placed rectangle.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 130

In the broadword (word-RAM) model used in TAOCP, a single machine step may include operations on an entire $n$-bit word such as: - bitwise Boolean operations, - addition and subtraction modulo $2^n$,...

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CF 105173L - Bracket Generation

We are given a fully balanced parentheses string. Think of it as a structure built from nested and concatenated segments, where every matching pair of parentheses defines a “container” that may itself contain several smaller balanced pieces.

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CF 105173M - House

We are given a set of distinct points on the plane, and we want to count how many ways we can choose five of them so that they form a specific geometric configuration called a “house”. A valid house consists of five labeled points $A, B, C, D, E$ with a rigid structure.

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CF 105173J - Breakfast

We are given a single meal order composed of two types of items: steamed buns and eggs. Each bun has a fixed price of 0.6 units of currency, and each egg costs 1 unit. The order size is fully specified by two integers: the number of buns and the number of eggs.

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CF 105173K - Tasks

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CF 105173H - Meet

The problem statement in your prompt is incomplete, so it is impossible to produce a correct editorial or implementation.

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CF 105173F - Factor

We are given three integers $p$, $x$, and $k$. We consider all integers $q$ in the range from 1 to $x$. For each such $q$, we form the product $p cdot q$, and we write this number in base $k$.

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CF 105173I - Password

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CF 105173G - Diamond

We are g

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CF 105173D - nIM gAME

I do not have enough information to write a correct editorial for this problem because the statement you provided is incomplete. The statement is missing the actual sample input values.

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CF 105173E - Checksum

Codeforces 105173E: Checksum

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CF 105173A - Paper Watering

We start with a single integer $x$. From this number we are allowed to apply up to $k$ operations, where each operation is either taking the integer square root (flooring it) or squaring it.

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CF 105173C - Ring

We are given a circular necklace of length $n$, where each bead is either red or blue. The beads are indexed around a ring, so index arithmetic wraps around modulo $n$.

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CF 105173B - Charging Station

The problem statement in your prompt is incomplete and internally inconsistent, so it is not possible to write a correct editorial or derive the intended algorithm. Several essential pieces of information are missing or corrupted: 1. The sample input is clearly truncated.

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CF 105174M - 石子游戏

We are given a game with a pile of stones. Two players alternate turns, Alice moving first. On each turn, the player looks at the current number of stones, say x, and removes stones according to a rule that depends on parity.

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CF 105174L - 道路

We are given a rooted tree with root at city 1. Every other city is connected so that there is exactly one simple path between any two cities. The cities that matter for the king’s yearly trips are the border cities, meaning the leaves of the tree except the root itself.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 13

The previous argument fails because it replaces the actual move graph by algebraic equations in nimbers.

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CF 105174K - 循环小数

I can't write a correct editorial for this problem because the problem statement in your prompt is incomplete and internally inconsistent. The sample input is corrupted: while the statement says each test case contains four integers a s b t after an initial T.

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CF 105174I - Mai 语言

We are asked to construct a small “program file” made of exactly $n$ lines. Each line has a very rigid format: it starts with a number written inside braces, then followed by a sequence of commas.

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CF 105174H - 数 01 串

We start with a binary string, a sequence made only of 0 and 1. Two kinds of local edit operations are allowed, and each operation inserts one extra character between two adjacent positions. The first operation is only usable on a pair of equal neighbors.

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CF 105174J - 传送

The problem statement is incomplete for writing a correct editorial and reference solution. The most important issue is that the sample shown is malformed: while the statement says the first number is T, yet this sample cannot be parsed as multiple test cases.

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CF 105174G - 溶液配制 Ⅱ

I don't have enough information to write a correct editorial or produce a correct solution for this problem. The statement you've provided is corrupted in a crucial place.

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