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CF 104671I - Phebe and Ryan

We are given a multiset of block weights. For each weight value $i$, there are $ai$ identical blocks of weight $i$. Players alternate taking any remaining block and adding its weight to a running sum that starts at zero.

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CF 104671G - Segment Tree Tutorial

We are working in a very high-dimensional grid. Each point is identified by an n-tuple of coordinates, and each coordinate ranges from 1 to 100000. Every point stores a number, initially zero.

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CF 104671H - Cyclically Coprime

We are asked to arrange the numbers from 1 to n into a single sequence so that every neighboring pair has gcd equal to 1, and the sequence is also cyclic in the sense that the last element and the first element must also be coprime.

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 136

A correct treatment must start from the actual definition of “two-bit encoding”.

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CF 104671F - Subset AND

We are working with a static array of integers, and each query gives us a segment of that array. For every segment, we must decide whether we can pick some nonempty subset of elements from that segment whose bitwise AND is exactly equal to a fixed target value k.

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CF 104671D - Formless Canvas

The input describes a planar drawing built from two kinds of structures: a set of infinite horizontal and vertical lines, and a collection of axis-aligned rectangles that do not overlap each other. Together, these objects slice the plane into a finite number of connected regions.

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CF 104671E - Cards in a Row

We are given a row of cards, each either face-up or face-down. A move consists of picking a position where the card is currently face-up, and then flipping every card from that position to the end of the row, including the chosen card itself. Flipping toggles each card state.

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CF 104671B - Starving

We are given a one-dimensional field of cells numbered from 0 to n. Cell 0 is our starting point and is always empty. Each other cell i may contain a watermelon that initially gives a certain amount of health, or it may be empty. We start at cell 0 with initial health h.

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CF 104671C - Destroy Columbia

We are given a string that can be thought of as a row of characters. We are allowed to pick any set of positions in this string, and then reverse only the characters located at those chosen positions, while leaving all other positions untouched.

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CF 104671A - Maximize Meal Quality

We are given a collection of numbers representing ingredient qualities. We must split these numbers into exactly k non-empty groups, where each number belongs to exactly one group. Each group represents a dish. The score of a dish is defined in a slightly unusual way.

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CF 104672D3 - Recalculating D3

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement for Codeforces 104672D3 - Recalculating D3 is not present in your prompt, and the gym link alone doesn’t contain enough structured detail to reliably reconstruct all required inputs, outputs…

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TAOCP 7.1.3 Exercise 217

Let a string consist of 64 characters $c_0,\ldots,c_{63}$, each character being an 8-bit vector $c_i = (c_{i,7},c_{i,6},\ldots,c_{i,0}), \qquad c_{i,k} \in \{0,1\}.$ Define eight 64-bit words $w_0,\ld...

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CF 104672D1 - Recalculating D1

I can’t write a correct editorial for Codeforces 104672D1 - Recalculating D1 because the actual problem statement (input/output definition and constraints) is missing from your prompt.

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CF 104672D2 - Recalculating D2

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the problem statement is missing. Right now there is no description of what “Recalculating D2” is asking, nor any input/output format or constraints.

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CF 104672B2 - Thermometers B2

I can write the full editorial in that format, but I’m missing the actual problem statement for Codeforces 104672B2 - Thermometers B2.

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CF 104672A2 - Naming Compromise A2

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement is missing from your prompt (both “Problem”, “Input”, and “Output” sections are empty).

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CF 104672A1 - Naming Compromise A1

I can’t write a correct editorial for Codeforces 104672A1 - Naming Compromise A1 because the actual problem statement (input/output specification and task description) is missing from your prompt.

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CF 104672B1 - Thermometers B1

I can’t write a correct Codeforces-style editorial for 104672B1 - Thermometers B1 without the actual problem statement.

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CF 104673K - Volcanoes

We are given a set of points in the plane, each representing a volcano that must be visited exactly once. A traveler starts from any chosen point and must construct a path that visits all points and then ends at the last visited point.

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CF 104673L - Wagon

A train moves through a sequence of cities in a fixed order, and at each city there are a few crane types available, each with a price. Every crane type is identified by an ID, and in a given city you may buy or sell any of the types listed there at that city’s price.

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CF 104673I - Shamans

We are given a grid made of empty cells and cells occupied by a single connected polyomino, represented by . The shape is fixed and cannot be altered except by cutting along grid edges. The process works like this: we repeatedly remove pieces from the shape.

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CF 104673H - Robots

We are working on a graph of villages connected by undirected roads. One robot, which we control, starts at a village S and wants to reach a target village F. It moves only at night, and each night it can either traverse one road to a neighboring village or stay in place.

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CF 104673G - Patio

We are given a long linear sequence of square tiles, each tile being either red or blue. We need to count how many contiguous segments of this sequence can be used to build a very specific square patio.

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CF 104673F - Needle

We are given a set of disjoint “clouds”, where each cloud is a set of points whose convex hull forms a simple convex polygon. These polygons do not overlap in their interiors, and they may touch only in empty space, never intersecting each other.

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CF 104673E - Mower

We are given a very large rectangular grid of size $W times H$. Each cell is initially unvisited. A single starting cell $(X, Y)$ is already marked as visited before the game begins. From that moment on, two players alternate moves, starting with the first player.

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CF 104673D - Journals

We are given a stack of journals represented by a string of + and -, where each symbol describes the orientation of a journal cover. The stack is read from top to bottom as the string is given.

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CF 104673B - Canoes

We are given a rectangular grid that represents a shoreline, and inside this grid there are many “docks”. Each dock is a 1-cell-thick straight segment aligned either horizontally or vertically, and it spans a contiguous set of grid cells. Each dock has length at least two.

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CF 104673A - Array

The structure described in the problem is a triangular grid of cells, where each row is longer than the previous one by exactly one cell. The first row contains a single cell, and every subsequent row extends symmetrically.

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CF 104677G - Points Redistribution

We are given a list of problems, each with a required time cost and a point value. The twist is that these problems are not always available. Instead, there are multiple classes, and each class teaches only a contiguous segment of problems.

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CF 104677E - Coding Club

We are simulating a rectangular DVD logo moving inside a larger rectangular screen. The logo itself has width and height, so its motion is equivalent to tracking the bottom-left corner of a smaller rectangle that is constrained to move inside a reduced rectangle of size $(W-A)…

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CF 104677D - Chase The Light

The graph describes a collection of islands connected by undirected bridges. Every bridge has two attributes: it always takes exactly one step to traverse it, and it also has a brightness value. From each query, an animal starts at some island and wants to reach island 1.

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CF 104677C - Darcy Parties

We are given a group of people, each holding some number of cake slices. If the cake had been divided perfectly, every person would have received exactly the same number of slices, because the total number of slices is guaranteed to be divisible by the number of people.

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CF 104677A - Pizza

The task describes a simple division scenario. A person has a fixed number of pizza slices and a group of friends. The slices are distributed as evenly as possible among all friends, and anything that cannot be evenly distributed remains unused.

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CF 104678G - Two ants

Two points on a number line each host an ant. Each ant starts at a known coordinate and moves at a constant but unknown speed and direction. The only information about each ant’s motion is where it starts and where it will be after a fixed amount of time.

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CF 104678F - Astronomy

Two observers stand at opposite poles and count stars visible from their respective positions. Each star is visible from exactly one pole, never both, which implies that the two observations partition the entire set of stars into two disjoint groups.

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CF 104678E - Football tournament

There are $n$ teams, each starting with a fixed strength value. Every pair of teams plays exactly one match, so the tournament is a complete round-robin.

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CF 104678D - Basic examination

We are given a string made only of opening and closing parentheses. The task is to decide whether this sequence could arise from some valid arithmetic expression after stripping away everything except parentheses.

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CF 104678C - Storybooks

We are given a collection of story lengths, where each story has a fixed number of pages. Alongside this, we are given several books, each with a page capacity.

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CF 104679J - XORted

We are given an array that is already sorted in non-decreasing order. For each query, we are given a segment of this array, and we are allowed to pick a single integer mask $X$ (with up to 20 bits) and XOR every element in that segment by $X$.

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CF 104679H - A Dance with DS

We are given two integers. One is a fixed base-like parameter $k$, and the other is an upper bound $r$. For any non-negative integer $n$, we define a process: if $n$ is divisible by $k$, we divide it by $k$, otherwise we subtract 1.

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CF 104679G - Winter Gifts

We are given two strings of equal length and an integer step size $k$. The allowed operation does not let us freely edit characters anywhere. Instead, we can pick two positions whose distance is exactly $k$, and copy the character from one position into the other.

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CF 104679F - Lucky Seats

We are given two integers that describe a hidden set of distinct non-negative integers. One of these values is the bitwise OR of all elements in the set, and the other is the bitwise XOR of all elements in the same set.

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CF 104679E - Rasta Thamaye Dilo

We are given a graph whose vertices are the integers from 2 up to n. Two vertices are connected by an edge exactly when one of the numbers divides the other.

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CF 104679D - Yet Another Mysterious Array

The game is played on an array of positive integers. Two players alternate turns. On each turn, a player selects a prime number that divides at least one element of the array.

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CF 104679B - Even Out

We are given an array of integers, and we are forced to perform exactly one operation: choose a single position and flip the sign of that element. After doing this once, we compute the sum of the entire array and check whether this sum is even.

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CF 104679A - First Year, Second Year

We are given two numbers that summarize an unknown pair of positive integers. One number represents their sum, and the other represents their difference, where the difference is taken as first minus second. From these two values, we need to reconstruct the original pair.

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CF 104681E1 - Cheating Detection E1

We are given a large binary table describing how a set of participants answered a large number of questions. Each row corresponds to one participant and each column corresponds to one question. A cell is 1 if the participant got that question correct and 0 otherwise.

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CF 104681D3 - Median Sort D3

We are given a hidden ordering problem where the only way to extract information about relative positions of elements is through a median operation on three indices.

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CF 104681D2 - Median Sort D2

We are given two sequences, each already sorted in non-decreasing order. Both sequences have odd length. The goal is not to reorder them directly, but to repeatedly apply a very specific transformation operation on either sequence until the two sequences become identical.

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CF 104681C2 - Reversort Engineering C2

The task is to construct a permutation of numbers from 1 to n such that when a specific deterministic process called Reversort is applied to it, the total cost of that process is exactly a given value C. If no such permutation exists, we must report impossibility.

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CF 104681C1 - Reversort Engineering C1

The task revolves around constructing an array that produces a prescribed “sorting cost” under a very specific sorting procedure.

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CF 104681B3 - Moons and Umbrellas B3

We are given a string that represents a sequence of tiles, where each tile is either fixed as a Moon marker, fixed as an Umbrella marker, or unknown. The unknown positions must be filled with one of the two symbols.

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CF 104681B1 - Moons and Umbrellas B1

We are given a single string representing a sequence of symbols, where each position is either a fixed letter or an unknown placeholder. The fixed letters are two types, think of them as two characters, and the unknowns can be replaced by either of those two characters.

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CF 104683A - Banis and Cards

We are given a collection of cards numbered from 1 up to n. For each query, someone chooses a value m and asks for the sum of all card numbers that are divisible by m. In other words, we are summing every multiple of m that appears in the range from 1 to n.

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CF 104686L - The Game

The game consists of a fixed sequence of 98 numbered cards that are drawn one by one from a face-down pile, plus four starting “direction anchors” on the table that define two independent increasing rows and two independent decreasing rows.

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CF 104686K - Skills in Pills

We are building a schedule over a line of n days. On each day, we may or may not take two different pills, but with a strict constraint that both pills can never be taken on the same day.

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CF 104686I - Money Laundering

The input describes a network of companies and people where ownership is defined as percentages. Each company distributes 100% of its value among a set of owners, and these owners can be either people or other companies.

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CF 104686G - Greedy Drawers

We are asked to construct two collections of objects of equal size: notebooks and drawers. Each notebook has two side lengths, and each drawer also has two side lengths.

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CF 104686J - Mortgage

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CF 104686H - Insertions

We are given three strings. We start with a base string s, and we are allowed to take another string t and insert it at any position inside s, including before the first character or after the last one. This produces a new combined string.

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CF 104686E - Denormalization

We are given a sequence of real numbers that originally came from a very specific construction: someone started with an integer array and then normalized it as if it were a vector.

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CF 104686F - Differences

We are given a collection of strings, all of the same length, over an alphabet of only four characters. Between any two strings we can measure their disagreement by counting how many positions differ, which is just the Hamming distance.

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CF 104686A - Bandits

We are given a weighted tree, meaning there are N villages connected by N−1 roads and there is exactly one simple path between any two villages. Each road has a length. On top of this static tree, the king introduces dynamic “security contracts”.

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CF 104686D - Deforestation

We are given a rooted tree where each node represents a physical segment of a large wooden structure. Each segment has a weight and may split into several child segments at its end.

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CF 104686C - Constellations

We are given a set of points in the plane, where each point is a “star” with a fixed creation order from oldest to newest. Initially, every star forms its own cluster. We repeatedly merge clusters until only one remains.

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CF 104686B - Combination Locks

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CF 104687K - Найти число-1

We are given a positive integer $a$. The task is to choose another integer $b$ such that $1 le b < a$, and the expression $$frac{a cdot b}{a + b}$$ is an integer. Equivalently, we need $a cdot b$ to be divisible by $a + b$.

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CF 104687I - Выбор чисел 2

We are given an array of integers and we need to pick exactly three elements from it. The only restriction is structural: if we pick elements at positions $i1 < i2 < i3$, then each consecutive pair must be separated by at least $d$ indices, meaning $i{t+1} - it ge d$.

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CF 104687H - Выбор чисел 1

We are given a sequence of integers indexed from left to right, and we need to choose exactly three positions in this sequence.

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CF 104687G - Покупка

We are given a row of pencils, each with a price, and we must end up buying exactly $k$ of them. The process is sequential: we scan from left to right and decide at each position whether to buy that pencil. The cost of buying a pencil is not just its price.

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CF 104687F - Строка-2

We are given a binary string consisting only of characters 0 and 1. The cost we care about is the number of inversions in this string, where an inversion is any pair of positions i < j such that a 1 appears before a 0.

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CF 104687E - Строка-1

We are given a binary string, only consisting of zeros and ones. We measure disorder using inversions: every pair of positions where a one appears before a zero contributes one unit.

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CF 104687D - Сумма 2

We are working with two integer intervals. One interval defines all valid values of $x$, and another defines all valid values of $y$.

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CF 104687A - Треугольник

We are given three integers, each representing a potential side length of a triangle. The task is to determine whether these three lengths can form a valid triangle.

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CF 104688B3 - Prime Time B3

The prompt is missing the actual Problem Statement / Input / Output description for “Codeforces 104688B3 - Prime Time B3”. Without that, I can’t correctly reconstruct the logic, constraints, or solution approach, and any editorial would be guesswork.

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CF 104688A2 - Append Sort A2

I don’t actually have the problem statement here (both the Input and Output sections are empty), so I can’t safely reconstruct Codeforces 104688A2 without guessing the rules.

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CF 104690A2 - Broken Clock A2

We are given a circular clock where several hands are visible, but all hands look identical, so we cannot directly tell which one corresponds to hours, minutes, or seconds.

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CF 104691A - Кубы и квадраты

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement is missing. Right now I only see the title “Кубы и квадраты (Cubes and Squares)”, but no definition of the input, what transformation or decision is required, or what the…

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CF 104692C2 - Double or NOTing C2

We are given a fixed array b that defines how neighboring positions in another array interact through a repeated randomized update process.

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CF 104692C1 - Double or NOTing C1

We are given a starting integer and a target integer. From the starting value, we can repeatedly apply two transformations. One operation doubles the current number, which in binary corresponds to shifting left and appending a zero bit.

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CF 104692B2 - Roaring Years B2

I’m missing the actual problem statement for Codeforces 104692B2 - Roaring Years B2 in your prompt (the “Problem Statement / Input / Output” sections are empty).

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CF 104692A2 - Closest Pick A2

I cannot see the statement for Codeforces 104692A2 - Closest Pick A2 in your prompt or in the retrieved context, so I cannot safely reconstruct the exact rules, constraints, or intended solution.

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CF 104692B1 - Roaring Years B1

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement for Codeforces 104692B1 - Roaring Years B1 is missing from your prompt.

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CF 104692A1 - Closest Pick A1

I can write the full editorial, but I’m missing one critical piece: the actual statement of Codeforces 104692A1 - Closest Pick A1. Right now the “Problem Statement / Input / Output” sections are empty in your prompt, so I don’t know: - what the “picks” are (array?

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CF 104699L - Беспорядки в Барбилэнде

We are given a social network modeled as an undirected graph. Each person has a fixed integer value $pv$, and each friendship has a value $d{u,v}$.

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CF 104699K - Идеальная пара

We maintain a dynamic collection of strings that belong to two separate groups: Barbies and Kens. Each update either inserts a string into one of the groups or removes a previously inserted occurrence.

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CF 104699J - Опасные опыты

We are given several independent research groups, each with a required threshold value. If a group receives at least its threshold amount of uranium, that group is considered to have reached a “critical state”.

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CF 104699I - Интерпретация

The input describes a program written in a small imperative pseudocode language with nested loops, assignments, input, and output. The structure is block-based: loops can contain other loops, and each loop introduces a new temporary variable that is only valid inside that loop.

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CF 104699G - Прогулка с Барби

We are given a very large grid with height $h$ and width $w$, but only a small number of meaningful cells. Most cells are empty, some contain rocks that block movement, and some contain values that increase the score when the path passes through them.

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CF 104699H - Конференция

We are given a weighted undirected network of cities, where each city contains some number of scientists. A scientist can travel along roads between cities, paying the sum of edge costs along their route.

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CF 104699E - Цепная реакция

We are given a tree where each vertex represents a nucleus. Every node has two independent attributes, a value that can be thought of as its neutron count and another as its proton count.

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CF 104699F - Самый милый дом

We are building a one-dimensional sequence of rooms, each occupying a fixed horizontal segment, but with freedom to place each room vertically inside a constrained interval.

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CF 104699D - Прелестная рассадка

We are given a circular table with $n$ seats and $n$ guests, and each guest comes with a constraint interval $[li, ri]$. This interval describes where that guest is allowed to sit: if we assign guest $i$ to some seat $j$, then it must hold that $li le j le ri$.

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CF 104699A - Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

We are trying to determine an unknown integer value $p$, which lies in a very large range up to $10^{12}$. We cannot query it directly, but we are allowed two different kinds of interactions. The first interaction is a kind of bounded membership test on $p$.

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CF 104699B - Кадровые перестановки

We are given a line of rooms, each containing some number of employees. Employees can only move between adjacent rooms, and the goal is to gather everyone into a single chosen room.

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CF 104699C - Барби в реальном мире

We are given a sequence of shelves, each shelf containing a fixed number of dolls. A group of children is initially distributed across these shelves, and each second every child standing at a shelf takes one doll from that shelf.

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CF 104702A1 - Minimum Sort A1

I cannot write a correct editorial yet because the actual problem statement for Codeforces 104702A1 - Minimum Sort A1 is not provided in your prompt, and I do not have enough reliable information to reconstruct it safely. The title alone is not sufficient.

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CF 104707C2 - One Millionth Visitor (Full)

Each visitor behaves like a deterministic clock that starts ticking on their own first visit day. From that moment, they produce an infinite sequence of visits, spaced regularly by their personal period.

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CF 104707C1 - One Millionth Visitor (Subtask)

Each visitor to Nadja’s site behaves like a periodic event on a timeline. Visitor $i$ first appears on day $ai$, and after that continues to appear every $bi$ days without end. So each visitor generates an infinite sequence of visit days: $ai, ai + bi, ai + 2bi, dots$.

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CF 104707A1 - Project Allocation (Subtask)

Each day we receive a task, and we must assign it to exactly one of two workers. If we give a task to Arda, we gain value ai, and if we give it to Bimala, we gain bi. The goal is to assign every task while maximizing total gained value.

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