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CF 104712A3 - Spiraling Into Control A3

The problem statement is missing, so I can’t derive the algorithm or write a correct Codeforces-style editorial yet.

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CF 104712A2 - Spiraling Into Control A2

The problem statement for “Codeforces 104712A2 - Spiraling Into Control A2” is missing from your message, so there’s no way to reconstruct the intended algorithm or even define the task precisely.

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CF 104712A1 - Spiraling Into Control A1

I need to correct something first: I do not actually have the full statement of Codeforces Gym 104712 A1 in the prompt, and I should not guess it from context alone. The content you provided only identifies the problem name but not its rules, input, or required output behavior.

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CF 104713K - Screamers

We are given a grid that contains several excavators placed on distinct tiles. Each excavator occupies exactly one cell, and we start with one excavator per occupied cell.

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CF 104713J - Roof Escape

We are given a grid of building blocks, where each block has a roof height. Each block occupies a square region in the plane, and neighboring blocks touch without any gap. A path starts at the center of one roof and ends at the center of another roof.

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CF 104713I - Storage Problems

We are given a sequence of items, each item having a fixed weight. We also have a capacity limit K. The items are considered in a fixed order from 1 to N, and each item is owned by a corresponding gangster. We are not simulating only the real process.

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CF 104713H - Pickpockets

We are given a timeline of H days. On each day k, the police effectively “clear” a prefix of stores, meaning all stores labeled from 1 up to Ck are considered clean on that day. If Ck is zero, no store is clean that day.

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CF 104713G - Offices

We are maintaining a growing undirected weighted graph of offices. Each office is a node, and between some pairs there are cables of two types. A cable of one type takes time T1 to traverse, the other takes time T2. The graph starts with N offices and M existing cables.

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CF 104713F - Rescue Mission

We are given a linear sequence of train coaches, each containing a small number of prisoners (from 0 to 9). Starting from any coach, the squad moves strictly forward and frees every prisoner in each visited coach, stopping only when they decide the mission is complete.

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CF 104713E - Tobacco Growing

We are given a target integer $N$. The task is to construct a very specific growth system on an infinite grid so that after a chosen number of days, we can harvest tobacco from at most 10,000 cells and obtain exactly $N$ total quantity.

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CF 104713D - Excavation

We are given an undirected graph that is a tree with up to 100 vertices. A small number of “detectives” are placed on vertices. Each day, an attacker announces one vertex they plan to “attack”. After seeing the target, every detective may move along at most one edge.

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CF 104713C - Pizzo Collectors

We are given a circular arrangement of $N$ houses. Each house either already has an owner with a fixed category (an uppercase letter) or is empty and can be assigned any category later. Every category has a monetary value.

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CF 104713A - Art Transaction

The input is a small grid, at most 50 by 50, where each cell contains either empty space or a specific symbol representing an object such as a sun, house, bird, drake, slope, grill, or chupacabra.

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CF 104713B - Bank Robbery

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement for Codeforces 104713B - Bank Robbery is missing from your message.

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CF 104716E2 - Triangles E2

I can’t write a correct editorial for “Codeforces 104716E2 - Triangles E2” because the actual problem statement is missing. Right now I don’t have the definitions of what a “triangle” is in this context, what the input represents, or what needs to be computed.

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CF 104716E1 - Triangles E1

I can’t write a correct Codeforces editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement for 104716E1 - Triangles E1 is missing from your prompt.

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CF 104716D2 - Schrödinger and Pavlov D2

The problem statement section is empty, so there isn’t enough information to reconstruct what “Schrödinger and Pavlov D2” actually asks.

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CF 104716D1 - Schrödinger and Pavlov D1

The problem statement for Codeforces 104716D1 - Schrödinger and Pavlov D1 is not included in your prompt, so there isn’t enough information to write a correct editorial.

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CF 104716C1 - Slide Parade C1

We are given a “slide parade” construction task where we need to arrange elements into a structured sequence that satisfies certain hidden constraints imposed by the problem.

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CF 104716C2 - Slide Parade C2

I can’t write a correct editorial without the actual problem statement. Right now, “Codeforces 104716C2 - Slide Parade C2” is referenced, but the statement, constraints, and samples are missing.

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CF 104716B2 - Goose, Goose, Ducks? B2

I cannot reliably write a correct Codeforces-style editorial for 104716B2 - Goose, Goose, Ducks? B2 yet because the actual problem statement is not present in your prompt, and it is not fully retrievable from the available metadata.

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CF 104716A2 - Wonderland Chase A2

The editorial request is missing the actual problem content. Right now I only have the title “Codeforces 104716A2 - Wonderland Chase A2”, but the statement, input/output format, and constraints are empty.

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CF 104716A1 - Wonderland Chase A1

The problem statement is missing from your prompt, so I don’t have the actual rules, input format, or required computation for “Codeforces 104716A1 - Wonderland Chase A1”.

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CF 104716B1 - Goose, Goose, Ducks? B1

I don’t have the actual statement for Codeforces 104716B1 - Goose, Goose, Ducks? B1 in your prompt, so I can’t safely write a correct editorial without risking inventing the problem details.

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CF 104718E2 - Infinitree E2

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem content is missing. Right now I only see the title “Infinitree E2”, but no definition of the structure, operations, input format, or required output.

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CF 104718D1 - Divisible Divisions D1

We are given a string of decimal digits, and we want to split it into contiguous chunks, where each chunk is interpreted as an integer.

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CF 104718E1 - Infinitree E1

The problem statement for Codeforces 104718E1 - Infinitree E1 is not included in your message, so I don’t have the actual rules, input format, or what needs to be computed.

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CF 104718D2 - Divisible Divisions D2

I don’t have the problem statement for Codeforces 104718D2 - Divisible Divisions D2, and I can’t reliably reconstruct it from the ID alone.

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CF 104718C2 - Ropes C2

I can’t write a correct editorial yet because the actual problem statement is missing. “Codeforces 104718C2 - Ropes C2” alone isn’t enough to reliably reconstruct the task, and guessing would very likely produce the wrong solution structure, wrong invariants, and a…

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CF 104718C3 - Ropes C3

We are given a set of ropes and a rigid triangular structure that can hang freely in space. Think of three points connected to the ground by ropes of fixed lengths, while the three points themselves form a triangle with fixed side lengths.

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CF 104718C1 - Ropes C1

We are given a grid that represents a messy arrangement of paired objects. Each integer appears exactly twice, and we can think of each number as representing a “pair” that should ideally sit next to each other in the grid.

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CF 104718B2 - Slide Circuits B2

I don’t have the actual statement of Codeforces 104718B2 - Slide Circuits B2 in the prompt, so I can’t reliably reconstruct the problem or produce a correct editorial without risking hallucinating details.

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CF 104718B1 - Slide Circuits B1

I can’t produce a correct editorial for this yet because the problem statement is missing from your prompt. “Slide Circuits B1” is a structured Code Jam-style problem, and the solution depends heavily on details like what operations are allowed, what exactly defines a…

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CF 104718A1 - Cutting Cake A1

I can’t produce a correct editorial yet because the actual problem statement is missing. Right now I don’t know what “Cutting Cake A1” asks for, what the input represents, or what needs to be optimized.

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CF 104720K - Donut Rings

We are given several “donuts”, each described by two radii. The inner radius defines a hole, and the outer radius defines the full extent of the donut. A donut can be placed inside the hole of another donut if its outer boundary fits entirely within that hole.

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CF 104720H - Cooking Timer

Each clock gives a snapshot of a 24-hour analog display with three hands: hours, minutes, and seconds. From these three integers, we interpret the physical positions of the hands on a circular dial and compute all pairwise angular separations.

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CF 104720J - Smoky Salmon

We are given a grid that represents a kitchen floor. Some cells are blocked, some are open, and one cell contains the chef’s starting position while another contains a refrigerator.

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CF 104720G - Food Quiz

We are given a quiz system where each question is answered by choosing exactly one option from a fixed set of choices. Every choice has a numeric value, and the total quiz result is just the sum of the values chosen across all questions.

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CF 104720D - Fractal Pancakes

The process starts from a single basic “pancake segment layout” in a square pan. Each operation takes the current configuration and replaces it with four scaled copies placed in the four quadrants of the pan.

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CF 104720F - Chef Circle

We are given a circular arrangement of chefs, each associated with a fixed value representing their “tastebud index.” We choose a starting chef, then traverse the circle in order, visiting every chef exactly once in a clockwise cycle.

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CF 104720C - Cooking Class

We are given a fixed group of competitors, each with a known skill value, and Autumn, who also has an initial skill value. Autumn must choose exactly one of several available training classes, each of which adds a fixed positive boost to her skill.

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CF 104720E - Dish Ordering

We are given two sequences of dishes, each dish represented by a single uppercase letter. The first sequence is the current arrangement on the table, and the second sequence is the desired final arrangement.

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CF 104720A - Bread Bonanza

We are given a very large integer written as a contiguous string of digits, with no separators between measurements. Each digit corresponds to an individual weighing result of bread produced by Baker Sdozen.

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CF 104720I - McDaniel's

We are given a sequence of burgers, each placed in a line from left to right, where each burger has a flavor value. For every position i, we need to count how many earlier positions j can be paired with i under a very specific condition.

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CF 104720B - Trinket Tidying Challenge

We are given a sequence of trinkets that must be discarded in a fixed order. Each trinket has a weight, and we also have identical trash bags with a maximum capacity of $K$.

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CF 104721B - road

We are given a straight road made of $n$ stations numbered from $1$ to $n$. Between station $i$ and $i+1$, there is a road segment with length $vi$. At every station $i$, fuel can be bought, but each station has its own fixed price $ai$ per liter.

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CF 104721A - apple

We are given a line of apples numbered from 1 to n in their original left to right order. Each day, a fixed deterministic rule is applied to the current line: starting from the leftmost remaining apple, the first apple is removed, then the next two are skipped, then the next…

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CF 104724D - tree

We are given a connected acyclic graph, so there is exactly one simple path between any two vertices. On this tree, we maintain a mutable condition on edges, initially uniform, and then process two types of operations.

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CF 104724B - game

We are given a long string made of lowercase letters, and we are allowed to repeatedly delete any adjacent pair of equal characters. Each deletion removes exactly two neighboring identical letters and then the remaining parts of the string join together.

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CF 104724C - struct

The task simulates a simplified C++-like memory model where we define struct types, create variables of those types, and then answer questions about how these variables are laid out in memory.

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CF 104724A - lock

We are dealing with a circular lock made of five digits, each digit ranging from 0 to 9, where incrementing past 9 wraps back to 0.

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CF 104733D2 - Win as Second D2

The problem statement is missing from your message, so I can’t produce a correct editorial yet. Codeforces “D2” tasks in particular usually depend heavily on precise rules, constraints, and sometimes interactive or constructive conditions.

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CF 104733C1 - Mascot Maze C1

We are given a changing maze of chambers connected by corridors that appear over time and then disappear after a fixed duration. People start in a small set of starting chambers, while exits are located in the last few chambers.

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CF 104733D1 - Win as Second D1

I’m missing the actual problem statement for Codeforces 104733D1 - Win as Second D1, so I can’t reliably reconstruct the task, constraints, or required technique.

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CF 104733C2 - Mascot Maze C2

I don’t have the actual statement of Codeforces 104733C2 - Mascot Maze C2 in the prompt you provided (the problem body is missing after “Problem Statement”).

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CF 104733B2 - Duck, Duck, Geese B2

I’m missing the actual problem statement for Codeforces 104733B2 - Duck, Duck, Geese B2 (the “Input” and “Output” sections are empty in what you provided).

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CF 104733A2 - Revenge of GoroSort A2

I can’t reliably reconstruct “Revenge of GoroSort A2” from the Codeforces gym link alone, and I don’t want to hallucinate an editorial for the wrong problem.

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CF 104733B1 - Duck, Duck, Geese B1

I can write the full editorial in the exact style you requested, but the problem statement is missing from your prompt.

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CF 104733A3 - Revenge of GoroSort A3

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement is missing. Right now I only have the title “104733A3 - Revenge of GoroSort A3”, but no description of the task, inputs, or outputs.

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CF 104730I - Выиграй МКОШП

We are given a small team of up to 12 students and up to 100 monsters. Each student has three attributes: current health, attack power, and a one-time shielding ability that can be used to increase any student’s health.

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CF 104730J - Путёвка на Острова Кука

We are given several independent test cases. In each test case, there are $3n$ points on the plane, all with integer coordinates and all distinct.

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CF 104730H - Задача в подарок

We are given a collection of problems, each with a non-negative difficulty value, and a total mental budget $S$. We may choose a subset of problems whose total difficulty does not exceed $S$, and these are considered “solved normally”.

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CF 104730G - Good Colorings

We are given an $n times n$ grid. At the start, Alice has already colored exactly $2n$ distinct cells, and each of these cells is assigned a unique color from $1$ to $2n$.

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CF 104730F - Split

We are given a permutation of size $n$, meaning every value from $1$ to $n$ appears exactly once in the array. For each query, we look at a contiguous segment and ask whether it can be split into two consecutive parts such that every value in the left part is strictly smaller…

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CF 104730E - Time Travel

We are given a fixed set of cities, but the road network between them changes over time. Each “time moment” describes a different undirected graph on the same set of cities, and there are up to 200000 such snapshots. You are also given a fixed sequence of time jumps.

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CF 104730B - Игра джентльменов

We are given a collection of cards, each card contains an array of length n. There are n players, and exactly m cards available. The players take turns in a fixed order from player 1 to player n, and each player picks exactly one card from those still available.

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CF 104730D - Minimum Segments

We are given a sequence $r1, r2, ldots, rn$. This sequence does not come from the original array directly, but from a derived process applied to some hidden array $a$, where each $ai$ is an integer between 1 and $n$.

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CF 104730C - Minimum Array

We start with an initial array and a sequence of range updates that are applied one after another. After each prefix of these operations, we obtain a new version of the array.

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CF 104728M - 近似递增序列

We are counting sequences of positive integers where the product of all elements is at most a given limit, and the sequence is “almost increasing” in the sense that along the sequence there is at most one position where the monotonic increase condition fails.

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CF 104728L - Azur Lane

We are given the final state of a sequence of loot boxes after several days of operations. Each day, some multiset of boxes was obtained, then internally sorted in non-increasing order of rarity, and appended to the existing sequence.

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CF 104728E - 序列配对

We are given a sequence of length $n$, initially all zeros. Alongside this sequence comes a list of $n$ pairing operations, each operation connects two indices $l$ and $r$.

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CF 104728J - 基因编辑

We are given a collection of DNA strings, each over the alphabet {A, C, G, T}. From any ordered pair of strings, we are allowed to form a new string by taking a prefix of the first string and concatenating it with a suffix of the second string.

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CF 104728H - 狭义线段树

We are given a fixed rooted binary tree with $2n-1$ nodes and $n$ leaves. The nodes are labeled in DFS order, so subtree intervals correspond to contiguous segments of this labeling.

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CF 104728G - 广义线段树

We are given a rooted binary tree with exactly $2n-1$ nodes. The leaves correspond one-to-one with positions of an array $a$, and every internal node represents a contiguous interval formed by merging its left and right children.

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CF 104728F - 新取模运算

We are given a prime number $p$, and many queries. Each query provides a huge integer $n$, and we need to evaluate a custom operation on $n!$.

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CF 104728B - 逆 KMP

We are given a length-n array of constraints. For each position i, a value a[i] tells us that the first a[i] characters of the final sequence must match a block of length a[i] ending at position i. In other words, for every i, the segment s[1..

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CF 104728D - 网格染色

We are given an $n times n$ grid of unit squares. The grid edges are initially uncolored. Two players alternate turns, with Walk Alone starting first. On each move, a player chooses any currently uncolored edge and colors it in their own color.

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CF 104725B - 终焉之茧

We are playing an interactive search game on a 2D integer grid. There is a hidden target point with integer coordinates bounded inside a square around the origin, and we start from the origin.

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CF 104725G - 精灵宝可梦对战

We are simulating a turn-based duel between two ordered teams of Pokémon-like fighters. Each team is a queue of units, and at any moment only the front unit of each team is active. The two players alternate turns, starting with Alice.

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CF 104725L - 养成游戏

We are given a small system of integer variables. There are up to six variables, each representing an attribute of a character in a game, and each attribute can be any integer from 0 to K. Alongside these variables, there are up to 100 judges.

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CF 104725K - RSP

We are given a two-player game that generalizes rock-paper-scissors to $n$ symbols arranged in a cycle. Symbol $i$ defeats symbol $i+1$, and symbol $n$ defeats symbol $1$. Any other pairing that is not a direct win relation results in a draw.

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CF 104725I - 幸福前方的物语

We are given an interval of integers from $l$ to $r$. From this interval we consider all subsets, including the empty subset. For any subset, we multiply all chosen numbers and check whether the product is a perfect square.

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CF 104725J - 圣夜的奇迹跑者

We are given a one-dimensional race track represented by integer positions from 1 to m. A special “perfect zone” is the suffix interval [R, m], and the final goal is to maximize the chance that a specific skill is the k-th skill to successfully trigger inside this perfect…

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CF 104725H - 字符串游戏

We are given a collection of strings owned by one player, and a second collection of strings used to generate queries. For each query string, we consider every one of its substrings as a separate game instance.

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CF 104725F - 最长上升子序列

We are given an array over positions, where each position i comes with a number a[i]. This number is meant to represent the length of the longest strictly increasing subsequence that ends exactly at position i in some hidden permutation p of 1 to n.

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CF 104725E - 永世乐土

We are given an undirected graph with up to 30 nodes and 50 edges. Several special nodes are marked as “memory locations”, and each of these contains one or more memories of interest. We start at node 1 and can walk along edges step by step.

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CF 104725D - 金人旧巷市廛喧

The grid describes a city map where movement is only allowed through passable cells and only in four directions. Some cells are blocked, some cells provide a bonus, and all other cells are neutral. There are exactly $k$ starting positions and $k$ ending positions.

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CF 104725C - 国王的疑惑

We are given a large directed complete graph structure that is not meant to be processed explicitly. The full graph consists of $K$ identical blocks, each block containing $n$ cities.

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CF 104725A - 疾羽的救赎

We are simulating a small board game played on a linear track of nine cells. Initially, there are three distinct pieces placed on fixed positions: a purple piece starts at cell 2, a green piece at cell 3, and a yellow piece at cell 4.

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CF 104728N - A+B problem

Each input consists of two single uppercase letters, and each letter represents a number in base 26 where A corresponds to 0, B to 1, and so on up to Z as 25.

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CF 104728K - 不定项选择题

We are dealing with a situation where there are $n$ distinct options, and the correct answer is some unknown non-empty subset of these options. Initially, no option is selected.

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CF 104728I - Fujisaki 讨厌数学

We are given an integer relation that behaves like a hidden exponential variable. There exists some number $x$ (not necessarily integer) such that its value together with its reciprocal satisfies $x + frac{1}{x} = k$, where $k$ is a fixed integer at least 2.

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CF 104728A - 简单的加法乘法计算题

We start with a value x = 0 and want to reach a target value y. We are allowed two types of operations. The first type adds any integer from 1 to n to the current value. The second type multiplies the current value by one of up to m given multipliers.

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CF 104728C - 排列排序问题

We are given a permutation of the numbers from 1 to n, and we want to transform it into the sorted sequence 1, 2, 3, ..., n using a special kind of restructuring operation.

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CF 104730A - Уникальная песня

We are given two collections of strings, each of size $n$. We must arrange them into a single sequence of length $2n$, but the positions are fixed by parity: every odd position must contain a string from the first collection, and every even position must contain a string from…

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CF 104733A1 - Revenge of GoroSort A1

We are given a line of boxes, each initially containing exactly one labeled ball. The labels form a permutation-like arrangement, so each box holds one distinct ball number. The goal is to transform this arrangement into the sorted state where ball i ends up in box i.

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CF 104735F2 - Go To Considered Helpful F2

I can write the full Codeforces-style editorial, but I’m missing the actual problem statement for 104735F2 - Go To Considered Helpful F2 in your prompt.

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CF 104735F1 - Go To Considered Helpful F1

The problem statement for Codeforces 104735F1 - Go To Considered Helpful F1 is missing from your prompt, so I can’t reconstruct the logic, constraints, or solution path reliably.

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CF 104735E2 - Juggle Struggle: Part 2 E2

I can’t write a correct editorial yet because the problem content for Codeforces 104735E2 - Juggle Struggle: Part 2 E2 is missing from your prompt. Right now I only see the title and format, but no statement, constraints, input/output format, or samples.

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CF 104735B2 - Sorting Permutation Unit B2

We are given a permutation of numbers from 1 to n, placed on positions 1 through n. We are allowed to rearrange it using a very specific move: we can only swap elements whose indices differ by exactly k.

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