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CF 105160E - 昨日方舟

The grid describes a map where each cell is either blocked or available for placing a unit. Over time, we receive a sequence of placement attempts. Each attempt tries to place a directional unit, a snake, on a specific cell facing up, down, left, or right.

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CF 105160D - 方块游戏

We are given an $n times m$ grid that represents a tiled game board. Each cell is either empty or colored with one of three colors labeled 1, 2, and 3.

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CF 105160B - 俄罗斯方块

We are given an $n times n$ grid and a multiset of rectangular tiles that can be placed either horizontally or vertically. Every tile is a $1 times k$ strip for some length $k$, and we are allowed to place each strip anywhere inside the grid as long as it stays inside bounds.

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CF 105160A - 我是组题人

We are given a list of problem difficulties, where each problem also has an implicit identifier given by its position in the input. The task is to reorder the problem indices according to difficulty from smallest to largest.

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CF 105160C - 小学题

We are given a large square $ABCD$ with side length $n$. Inside it sits a smaller square $AEFG$ whose side length is a variable integer $m$, restricted to an interval $[l, r]$.

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CF 105161K - Number Deletion Game

We are given a multiset or array of integers. Two players alternate turns in a game. On each turn, a player is allowed to remove one occurrence of the current maximum value present in the structure.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 160

We restart from the definitions implicit in formulas (150) and (151) and prove directly that they generate identical labels, without introducing unproved intermediate tables.

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CF 105161H - Real Estate Is All Around

We are processing a chronological stream of events that manipulate a set of houses and how three assistants handle them.

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CF 105161J - Tile Covering

We are given an $n times m$ grid where each cell has a weight. The task is to place non-overlapping rectangular tiles on this grid to maximize the total sum of covered cell weights.

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CF 105161I - Integer Reaction

We are given a sequence of integers, each tagged with one of two colors. The numbers arrive from left to right. As each number appears, we maintain a multiset of currently “unpaired” numbers.

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CF 105161E - Divide

We are given an array of length $n$. Each query provides a segment $[l, r]$ and an integer $k$. On that segment we repeatedly apply an operation that replaces the current maximum element by its integer division by 2.

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CF 105161F - Download Speed Monitor

We are given a sequence of download speeds sampled over time and a fixed window size $k$. For every contiguous segment of length $k$, we need to compute the average speed of that segment.

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CF 105161G - Download Time Monitor

Codeforces 105161G: Download Time Monitor

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CF 105161D - City Bloxx

Codeforces 105161D: City Bloxx

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CF 105161A - Two's Company but Three's Trumpery

We are given a forest, meaning an undirected graph where each connected component is a tree. We are allowed to add edges between vertices.

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CF 105161C - Radio Direction Finding

We are working on a hidden structure: a cycle of $n$ positions labeled $0$ to $n-1$, where $n$ is odd. Two distinct positions are secretly chosen. We cannot see them directly.

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CF 105161B - Area of the Devil

We are given five disjoint arcs on a circle. From each arc, we pick one point, and we connect the five chosen points in order, forming a closed pentagon-like star shape.

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CF 105163L - Badminton

We are given a directed graph where each node has an associated value that can be interpreted as a capacity or weight. Some nodes are marked as active depending on a parameter that can be adjusted.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 16

We rebuild the argument directly from the definitions in Exercise 14 and the structure of binary carries in 2-adic arithmetic.

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CF 105163K - Puzzle

Codeforces 105163K: Puzzle

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CF 105163J - Trade

We are working on a grid where each cell has two kinds of values. One value represents how much it costs to pass through that cell, and the other represents the price at which goods can be sold in that cell.

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CF 105163H - Color of Goods

Each item in the input can be seen as a “colored object”, except a single object may carry multiple colors at once.

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CF 105163I - This is an easy problem

The task is centered around inspecting the binary representation of an integer and reasoning about individual bits.

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CF 105163G - Grey-like Code

The construction defines a directed graph built from bit manipulation. Each vertex is an integer in a full range that can be interpreted as a fixed-length binary string.

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CF 105163F - Photography

The problem describes a selection process on a structure that can be interpreted as a graph or a sequence of connected points.

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CF 105163E - Three Kingdoms

The problem describes a probabilistic card process involving two players, Joey and Grey, where the final expected number of cards depends on both the initial composition of suits and a recursive interaction between outcomes.

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CF 105163D - Card Game

Two players each hold a collection of cards, and every card is either offensive or defensive. Each card also has a single numeric attribute, its attack value.

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CF 105163B - String

We are given a single string consisting of characters, and we repeatedly apply a local reduction rule until no more changes are possible. The rule is simple: whenever three identical characters become adjacent, they disappear from the string.

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CF 105163A - Fixing Tube

We are given a grid-like pipeline system made of four types of pipe tiles. Each tile can potentially be rotated, and water enters from a starting point and must be routed through connected tiles according to their shapes.

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CF 105163C - Monster Hunt

We are working on a rooted tree. During the process, some nodes become “active” through toggle operations. After

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CF 105164I - Inspecting Merge Algorithm

We are given a target sequence, and we imagine it was produced by repeatedly merging a collection of $M$ non-empty sequences using a very specific two-pointer merge procedure.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 159

The key mistake in the proposed solution is the attempt to construct a direct “signed greedy” algorithm for negaFibonacci digits and to argue correctness via an incorrect Fibonacci identity.

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CF 105164L - Lost Land of Numeralia

Codeforces 105164L: Lost Land of Numeralia

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CF 105164K - Knights In The Board

We are given a set of knights placed on distinct squares of an $N times N$ chessboard. Each knight has the standard chess movement: it can attack up to eight potential squares in an L-shaped pattern. Two knights are in conflict if one can reach the other in a single move.

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CF 105164J - Journey To Stringland

We are given a string $S$ of length $N$. We are allowed to change characters in this string arbitrarily, with each change costing one operation.

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CF 105164G - Granitus Stone Towers

We are given a collection of stone towers, each with some positive height. Two players alternately perform the same type of move.

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CF 105164F - Factory TikTak Trend

We are given two strings of equal length, and we repeatedly apply deterministic cyclic transformations to each of them. For the first string, each state corresponds to a left rotation, shifting the first character to the end.

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CF 105164H - Highest Score APPQ

We are given a universe of numbers generated in a very structured way. Each number corresponds to a vector of exponents over the first $n$ primes.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 158

Let the Fibonacci numbers be F_1=1,\quad F_2=2,\quad F_{k+2}=F_{k+1}+F_k.

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CF 105164A - Arrayland's Challenge

We are given a static array of integers. Each query asks us to look at a contiguous segment of this array and determine how tightly packed the values are inside that segment.

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CF 105164E - Evaluating Linear Expressions

We are given a simple linear rule that transforms an integer input $x$ into an output value $ax + b$. The task is to apply this rule repeatedly for consecutive values of $x$, starting from 1 up to $k$, and print all resulting outputs in order.

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CF 105164D - Different Triangles

We are asked to count how many different triangles can be formed using matchsticks, where each side length is an integer number of sticks. A triangle is determined by three positive integers $a le b le c$, and the perimeter is $a + b + c$, which must not exceed $N$.

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CF 105164B - Bacterial Sampling

We are simulating a population of bacteria inside a container, starting with a single newborn organism at time zero. Each bacterium follows a very rigid lifecycle. It spends its first two minutes in a non-reproductive “immature” state.

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CF 105164C - Chocolate Packing

We are given two rectangular prisms. One is a large shipping container with dimensions $L times W times H$, and the other is a smaller identical chocolate box with dimensions $l times w times h$. The goal is to determine how many small boxes can be packed inside the large one.

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CF 106369J - Grow Measure Cut Repeat

The input describes a sequence of commands applied to an initially flat terrain indexed by integers. A grow operation centered at position L with strength K increases the height of position x by max(0, K minus distance between x and L).

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CF 105167L - Locomotive Control Center

We are given a fixed sequence of railcars at station A. Each railcar has a unique label from 1 to n, but they appear in an arbitrary order.

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CF 105167H - Hourly Mate

We are given a collection of drinks, each drink having a type and an expiration limit measured in hours. Time advances discretely: Sascha consumes exactly one drink per hour, and the machine must choose which drink is dispensed each hour.

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CF 105167I - Increased Intelligence

We are given a DNA string of length $n$ over the alphabet ${A, C, G, T}$. Inside this string, there is a fixed set of positions that are “editable”, meaning each of those positions can be changed independently into any of the four letters.

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CF 105167K - Keen on Rösti

We are given a queue of $n$ students arranged in a fixed order, and a probabilistic process that repeatedly acts on the student at the front.

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CF 105167J - Just Too Much Procrastination

We are given an array of distinct integers, representing heat levels of server racks arranged in a line. We are allowed to rearrange this array using adjacent swaps, where each swap exchanges neighboring elements.

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CF 105167B - Broken Polybahn

We are given a tree with up to one hundred thousand vertices. From this tree we consider all connected induced substructures formed by choosing some subset of vertices and taking all edges between them that exist in the original tree.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 157

Let $\alpha = (\alpha_1,\alpha_2,\ldots,\alpha_m)$ be a negaFibonacci code in the sense of Section 7.

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CF 105167G - Glitchy Language Model

The input describes a small “language” generated by a large language model. The model defines a finite logic system with a fixed number of truth values from 1 up to S, where S is at most 5.

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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

Working

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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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