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CF 104634C - Hexacoin Jam

We are given a list of N fixed hex numbers, each written with exactly D hexadecimal digits. We are also given a target interval $[S, E]$, also expressed as D-digit hexadecimal numbers.

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CF 104634A - Pack the Slopes

We are given a rooted structure that is effectively a directed tree rooted at node 1. Every node is reachable from the root by exactly one directed path, so although edges may be listed in any orientation in the input, the underlying structure behaves like a tree with a unique…

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CF 104635D2 - Dat Bae - D2

We are given a hidden set of positions labeled from 1 to N. Some of these positions are “broken”, and the rest are “working”. The number of broken positions is not directly given, but we are allowed to interactively query the system.

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TAOCP 1.3.3 Exercise 1

Consider the mapping $f(x)=2x \bmod 7$ on ${0,1,2,3,4,5,6}$.

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CF 104635D1 - Dat Bae - D1

We are dealing with a hidden binary array of length $N$. Each position corresponds to a device that is either working or broken, but we do not know which ones are which.

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CF 104635C2 - Cryptopangrams - C2

We are given an encrypted message that was originally formed from a sequence of prime numbers. Each letter was first converted into a prime, and then the encryption replaced the sequence of primes with the product of every two adjacent primes.

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CF 104635C1 - Cryptopangrams - C1

We are given a sequence of integers that were produced from an underlying hidden sequence of primes. Each integer represents the product of two neighboring primes in that hidden sequence.

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CF 104635B3 - You Can Go Your Own Way - B3

We are given a square grid of size n by n. A person named Lydia has already chosen a path from the top-left corner to the bottom-right corner, moving only right or down.

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CF 104635B1 - You Can Go Your Own Way - B1

We are given a square grid of size $N times N$. Someone else, Lydia, has already chosen a valid path from the top-left corner to the bottom-right corner, moving only right or down at each step.

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CF 104635B2 - You Can Go Your Own Way - B2

We are given a single grid path that starts at the top-left corner of a square grid and reaches the bottom-right corner. The path is described as a sequence of unit moves, where each move goes either right or down. This sequence represents one valid route through the grid.

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TAOCP 2.3.4.2 Exercise 28

Let $N=m+n$.

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CF 104635A2 - Foregone Solution - A2

We are given a number written as a string of decimal digits. The task is to split this number into two other numbers such that adding them together reconstructs the original number exactly, digit by digit with normal base 10 addition, and neither of the two resulting numbers…

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CF 104635A1 - Foregone Solution - A1

We are given a single large integer written in decimal form, and we need to split it into two non-negative integers whose sum equals the original number.

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CF 104635A3 - Foregone Solution - A3

We are given a very large non-negative integer written as a string. The task is to split this number into two non-negative integers, call them A and B, such that when we add them digit-wise we recover the original number, and neither A nor B contains the digit 4 in their…

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CF 104636H - Hotelier

We are simulating a very small hotel with exactly ten rooms indexed from 0 to 9. Each room can either be empty or occupied by exactly one guest. Over time, guests either arrive from one of two entrances or leave from a specific room.

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CF 104636G - Pangram

We are given a string of Latin letters where both uppercase and lowercase characters may appear. The task is to determine whether the string is a pangram, meaning that every letter from 'a' to 'z' appears at least once somewhere in the string, ignoring case differences.

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CF 104636F - Mammoth's Genome Decoding

We are given a string of length n that represents a partially decoded genome. Each position is either one of the four nucleotides A, C, G, T, or an unknown character ? that must be replaced.

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CF 104636E - YES or YES?

We are given multiple independent test cases. Each test case consists of a very short string of exactly three characters. The task is to decide whether this string represents the word “YES” when we ignore letter case.

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CF 104636D - Watering System

We are given a pipe system with $n$ outlets, each outlet having a size $si$. Arkady pours a fixed amount of water $A$ into the system, but he is allowed to block any subset of outlets before doing so.

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CF 104636B - Vlad and Cafes

We are given a sequence of cafe visits, where each number represents the index of a cafe Vlad visited at that moment in time. Cafes can repeat, meaning Vlad may visit the same cafe multiple times, and we only care about the order of visits.

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CF 104636C - The Rank

We are given a list of students, each identified by an integer id from 1 to n. Student 1 is Thomas. Every student has four exam scores, and their overall performance is measured by the sum of these four scores.

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CF 104636A - Oath of the Night's Watch

We are given a list of steward strengths, and we need to decide which stewards Jon Snow will support. A steward is supported only if there exists at least one steward with strictly smaller strength and at least one steward with strictly larger strength.

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CF 104637I - Definite Game

Codeforces 104637I: Definite Game

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CF 104637J - Tanya and Stairways

We are given a single sequence of integers that represents what Tanya says while climbing stairs. Each time she enters a new stairway, she starts counting from 1 and continues upward step by step until that stairway ends.

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CF 104637H - Three Pairwise Maximums

We are given three positive integers, and we want to check whether they could have come from a very specific construction involving three hidden positive integers $a$, $b$, and $c$.

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CF 104637G - Frog Jumping

A frog starts at position 0 on a number line and repeatedly jumps left and right in a fixed pattern. The first jump moves it to the right by a, the second jump moves it to the left by b, and this alternation continues for k total jumps.

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CF 104637F - Subtractions

We are given several independent pairs of positive integers. For each pair, we repeatedly apply a deterministic transformation: identify the larger of the two numbers and subtract the smaller from it.

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CF 104637E - The Doors

We are given a sequence describing the order in which doors are opened. Each door belongs to one of two exits of a house, either the left exit or the right exit.

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CF 104637B - Buying Torches

We are trying to produce a target number of torches. Each torch consumes exactly one stick and one coal, so if we want $k$ torches, we ultimately need $k$ sticks and $k$ coal. We start with no useful inventory except that we can manipulate sticks through two trade operations.

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CF 104637D - Squares and Cubes

We are asked to count how many integers in the range from 1 to n can be written in at least one of two special forms: a perfect square or a perfect cube. If a number can be written both ways, it should still be counted only once.

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TAOCP 2.3.4.2 Exercise 27

For each vertex $V_j$, let $\mathcal{T}_j$ be the set of oriented spanning trees of $G$ rooted at $V_j$ in the sense of Section 2.

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CF 104637C - Alarm Clock

We are simulating a very particular sleep cycle with a repeating alarm. Polycarp falls asleep and initially waits a fixed number of minutes before the first alarm rings. After that, every time he wakes up, he checks whether he has accumulated enough total sleep.

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CF 104637A - Red and Blue Beans

We are given two piles of indistinguishable items, red beans and blue beans. In each test case we must decide whether it is possible to split all beans into several groups, where each group contains both colors, and within every group the difference between the number of red…

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CF 104639L - KaChang!

We are given a reference program whose running time is fixed at $T$, and a list of $n$ other programs with known running times.

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CF 104639K - Minimum Euclidean Distance

We are given a convex polygon that represents a safe region in the plane. For every airdrop query, we also get a circle defined by its diameter endpoints. Each airdrop lands uniformly at random anywhere inside that circle.

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CF 104639J - Minimum Manhattan Distance

We are given two geometric objects in the plane. Each object is a circle, but instead of being defined by a center and radius, each circle is specified by the endpoints of a diameter.

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CF 104639H - Range Periodicity Query

We are building a sequence of strings S1 through Sn by processing a string of operations. Starting from an empty string, each step adds exactly one character either to the left or to the right. If the current operation is a lowercase letter, we place it at the front.

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CF 104639I - Pa?sWorD

We are given a partially known password string of length n. Each position already restricts what the final password character can be.

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CF 104639G - Spanning Tree

We are given a process that builds a spanning tree in a somewhat indirect way. Initially, every node is isolated. Then we perform $n-1$ operations. Each operation provides two nodes $ai$ and $bi$, and at that moment both belong to different connected components.

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CF 104639F - Alice and Bob

We are given an array of integers and a two-player game defined on it. Alice moves first, and in each move a player picks any two positions in the array and replaces those two values with a new pair of integers that preserves their sum while strictly decreasing their absolute…

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CF 104639D - Transitivity

We are given an undirected simple graph where some pairs of vertices are already connected by edges. The operation we are allowed to perform is to add new edges, but we cannot delete existing ones and we cannot introduce parallel edges or self loops.

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CF 104639E - Magical Pair

We are given a prime number $n$. We consider all ordered pairs of positive integers $(x, y)$ where both values lie in the range $1 le x, y le n^2 - n$.

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CF 104639A - Qualifiers Ranking Rules

We are given the ordered results of two separate programming contests. Each contest ranks individual teams, but what ultimately matters is the performance of universities rather than individual teams.

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CF 104639C - Multiply Then Plus

We are maintaining a dynamic collection of pairs of integers. Each pair behaves like a linear function in a single variable: for a pair $(ai, bi)$, we can evaluate a value $fi(x) = ai cdot x + bi$. The system supports two operations over time.

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CF 104639B - String

We are given two strings of equal length, call them S1 and S2. Think of them as two aligned rows of characters, both indexed from 1 to n.

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TAOCP 2.3.4.2 Exercise 24

Construct a directed multigraph $G'$ from $G$ by replacing each arc $e_j$ with $E_j$ parallel arcs, for $1\le j\le m$, and omitting $e_0$.

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CF 104640L - Взломать коллайдер

We are given a hidden array of length $n$. The array is strictly increasing, meaning every next value is larger than the previous one. However, we are not allowed to see the array directly. Instead, there is an interactive function $f(x)$.

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CF 104640K - Иерархия Паучьего сообщества

We are given a tree of $n$ nodes rooted at node $1$. Each edge represents a direct supervision relation in a hierarchy, but the direction is not fixed in the input, only the structure of the tree is known.

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TAOCP 2.3.4.2 Exercise 23

Let $A=\{0,1,\dots,m-1\}$.

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CF 104640J - Паутина во все стороны

We are given a circular boundary centered at the origin, and from the origin we imagine emitting rays in every possible direction. Each ray represents a “web line” that travels outward until it either reaches the boundary circle or gets blocked earlier.

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CF 104640I - Стабилизация мультивселенной

We are given a directed graph with $n$ vertices, where each vertex has exactly two outgoing edges and exactly two incoming edges. So the whole structure is a 2-in-2-out directed multigraph, potentially with parallel edges. Each edge has an interval $[ai, bi]$.

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CF 104640H - Квантовая дыра

We are given a binary string length $n$ that we must construct. The cost of the string is defined through all its contiguous substrings of length $k$.

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CF 104640G - Человек-паук Нуар и кубик Рубика

We are given a grid of size $n times m$ where each cell is either black or white. We are allowed to apply operations that flip an entire row or flip an entire column, toggling all colors in that line.

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CF 104640E - Прямоугольное Пятно

We are given a collection of axis-aligned rectangles, each defined by its height and width, and each rectangle is also allowed to be rotated by 90 degrees.

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CF 104640F - Гвен отдыхает

We start with a rectangle of size $n times m$. Two players take turns, starting with Gwen, and there are exactly $k$ moves per player, so $2k$ moves in total. On each move, a player chooses one side of the rectangle and increases it by 1.

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CF 104640D - Тест на интеллект

We are asked to construct a string of length $n$ over lowercase Latin letters. After we output the string, a machine evaluates it in a way that depends only on which distinct letters appear and how many times each appears.

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CF 104640C - Прыжки между вселенными

We are given a graph where vertices represent universes and edges represent portals. Each portal has a minimum energy requirement, meaning you can only traverse that portal if your current energy level is at least a given threshold. Energy starts at zero.

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CF 104640A - Побег Майлза

We are given two separate directed-unweighted weighted graphs that share the same set of vertex labels from 1 to n.

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TAOCP 2.3.4.2 Exercise 22

We repair the argument by giving a complete BEST-theorem style proof with fully justified bijections and a clean treatment of the root and cyclic factors.

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CF 104640B - Ловля пауков

We are asked to choose a number of prepared food portions, call it $m$, under a global budget $m le n$. The process has a fixed structure: one portion is always consumed by analysis, leaving $m - 1$ portions.

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CF 104642D2 - Cubic UFO D2

We are missing the actual problem statement for Codeforces 104642D2 - Cubic UFO D2, so I cannot safely write a correct editorial yet.

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CF 104642C2 - Go, Gopher! C2

The statement for Codeforces 104642C2 - Go, Gopher! C2 is not included in your prompt, and this specific task is not a standard standalone Codeforces problem with a widely indexed description.

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CF 104642D1 - Cubic UFO D1

The problem statement is missing from your prompt, so there is no way to reconstruct the required model, operations, or solution logic for “Codeforces 104642D1 - Cubic UFO D1”.

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CF 104642C1 - Go, Gopher! C1

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement (and I/O format) is missing. “Codeforces 104642C1 - Go, Gopher!

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CF 104642B2 - Trouble Sort B2

I can't write a correct editorial because the actual problem statement is missing. The prompt only includes: - Problem: Codeforces 104642B2 - Trouble Sort B2 - Empty Problem Statement - Empty Input - Empty Output Without the statement, it is impossible to determine: - what…

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CF 104642A1 - Saving The Universe Again A1

We are given a sequence of commands that controls a simple robot-like system. The program is a string made of two kinds of characters. One character increases the firing power of the system, and the other fires a shot that deals damage equal to the current power at that moment.

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CF 104642B1 - Trouble Sort B1

We are given a sequence of numbers arranged in a line, and we are allowed to perform a very restricted kind of rearrangement operation. The operation does not let us swap arbitrary elements, only elements that are two positions apart in the array.

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CF 104642A2 - Saving The Universe Again A2

I can't write a correct editorial because the essential problem statement is missing. The prompt only identifies the problem as Codeforces 104642A2 - Saving The Universe Again A2, but the sections that define the task are empty: - Problem Statement - Input - Output Without…

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CF 104644C2 - Ant Stack C2

I can't write the requested editorial because the essential problem statement is missing. The prompt only identifies Codeforces 104644C2 - Ant Stack C2, but the sections containing the actual statement, input format, output format, constraints, and samples are empty: - Problem…

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CF 104644C1 - Ant Stack C1

I don’t have the actual problem statement for Codeforces 104644C1 - Ant Stack C1, and I can’t reconstruct it reliably from the title alone without risking inventing details.

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CF 104644B1 - Lollipop Shop B1

We are effectively simulating a greedy resource allocation system over time. There are N items, each item represents a lollipop of a distinct flavor. We also have N customers arriving one by one. Each customer provides a list of flavors they are willing to accept.

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CF 104644A2 - A Whole New Word A2

I don't have enough information to write a correct editorial. The prompt identifies the problem as Codeforces 104644A2 - A Whole New Word A2, but the actual Problem Statement, Input, and Output sections are empty.

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CF 104644A1 - A Whole New Word A1

I don’t have the actual statement of Codeforces 104644A1 - A Whole New Word A1 in your prompt, only the template. Without the problem description, any “editorial” would be guesswork and would very likely be incorrect.

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TAOCP 2.3.4.2 Exercise 21

Let $A$ be the matrix of exercise 19 for $G$, and let $A^_$ be the corresponding matrix for $G^_$.

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TAOCP 2.3.4.2 Exercise 20

Assign an arbitrary orientation to each edge of $G$ and form the incidence matrix $A$ as in Exercise 18, with rows indexed by edges and columns indexed by vertices $V_0,\ldots,V_n$.

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CF 104702D2 - Retiling D2

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem content is missing. Right now I only see the title “Retiling D2” with no statement, inputs, outputs, or constraints.

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CF 104702D1 - Retiling D1

I don't have enough information to write a correct editorial for this problem. The prompt identifies the problem as Codeforces 104702D1 - Retiling D1, but the actual problem statement is missing. The sections for Problem Statement, Input, and Output are empty.

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CF 104702C1 - Hidden Pancakes C1

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement for Codeforces 104702C1 - Hidden Pancakes C1 is missing from your prompt.

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CF 104702C2 - Hidden Pancakes C2

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement is missing. Right now I only have the title “104702C2 - Hidden Pancakes C2”, but none of the defining details: what the input represents, what operations are allowed, or what needs to be…

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CF 104702B1 - Matrygons B1

I can’t write a correct Codeforces-style editorial yet because the actual problem statement is missing. Right now you’ve provided only the title “104702B1 - Matrygons B1”, but there is no description of the task, input/output format, or constraints.

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TAOCP 2.3.4.2 Exercise 18

Let the free graph $G$ with vertices $V_0,V_1,\ldots,V_n$ be given an arbitrary orientation of its $m$ edges, and form the incidence matrix $A$ and the reduced matrix $A_0$ by deleting the column corr...

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CF 104663A - Counting Subarrays

We are working with an array of length $N$, but the array values themselves are irrelevant. What matters is only the index line from 1 to $N$. On this line, we are given $M$ special segments $[li, ri]$. These segments represent constraints on what makes a subarray “bad”.

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CF 104663B - Digit occurrence Sum

We maintain a dynamic set of non-negative integers. Over time, this set changes: numbers can be inserted or removed, and we may also delete the element that currently ranks at a specific position when the set is sorted in descending order.

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CF 104663C - Don't Let Them Pass

I can't write a correct editorial and solution for this problem from the statement alone because a crucial piece of information is missing: the official problem statement does not specify whether a block may be moved beyond the grid boundaries or whether every move must keep…

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CF 104660D3 - ESAb ATAd D3

We are dealing with an interactive reconstruction task on a hidden binary string of length $N$. The string is not given upfront. Instead, we can query positions to learn individual bits, and our goal is to eventually output the entire string correctly.

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TAOCP 2.3.4.2 Exercise 16

Let the piles be numbered $1,\dots,12$ around the circle and $13$ the center pile.

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CF 104659C2 - Join the Ranks C2

I can’t reliably write a correct editorial for Codeforces 104659C2 - Join the Ranks C2 because the actual problem statement is missing.

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CF 104659C1 - Join the Ranks C1

The problem statement is missing. The prompt only contains: - Problem: Codeforces 104659C1 - Join the Ranks C1 - Empty sections for the statement, input, and output. Without the actual problem statement, I cannot produce a correct editorial or implementation.

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CF 104659B3 - Blindfolded Bullseye B3

I can’t write a correct editorial yet because the actual problem content is missing. Right now I only see the title and metadata for “Codeforces 104659B3 - Blindfolded Bullseye B3”, but no statement describing the rules, input, output, or constraints.

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CF 104659A2 - Expogo A2

We are given a target point on an infinite 2D grid. Starting from the origin, we want to reach that point using a sequence of moves. Each move has a fixed length that doubles every step, starting from 1, then 2, then 4, and so on.

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CF 104659B2 - Blindfolded Bullseye B2

I can't write an accurate editorial because the prompt does not actually include the problem statement for Codeforces 104659B2 - Blindfolded Bullseye B2. The sections for the statement, input, and output are empty.

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CF 104659B1 - Blindfolded Bullseye B1

The editorial request is complete, but the actual problem statement for Codeforces 104659B1 - Blindfolded Bullseye B1 is missing from your prompt.

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CF 104656D3 - Contransmutation D3

I can’t responsibly write a correct full editorial yet because the actual problem statement for “104656D3 - Contransmutation D3” is not available in your prompt, and it’s not fully recoverable from the surrounding metadata.

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CF 104656D1 - Contransmutation D1

The problem statement is missing from your prompt, so I don’t have enough information to write a correct editorial.

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CF 104656C1 - New Elements, Part 2 C1

I can't write the requested editorial because the problem information is incomplete. The prompt only includes the title: Codeforces 104656C1 - New Elements, Part 2 C1 but the actual problem statement, input, output, and constraints are missing.

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CF 104656A2 - New Elements, Part 1 A2

The problem statement is missing from your prompt, so there’s no way to write a correct editorial without inventing details about what “New Elements, Part 1 A2” actually asks.

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CF 104656B1 - Pottery Lottery B1

The problem statement section is empty, so there isn’t enough information to derive the solution, constraints, or even the task itself.

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CF 104656A1 - New Elements, Part 1 A1

I don't have enough information to write a correct editorial. The prompt identifies the problem as Codeforces 104656A1 - New Elements, Part 1 A1, but the actual problem statement, input format, output format, and constraints are missing.

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CF 104655C1 - Bacterial Tactics C1

We are missing the actual statement of Codeforces 104655C1 - Bacterial Tactics C1 in the prompt you provided. Without the problem definition, any attempt to write a correct editorial would be guesswork, and for this problem in particular (a C1 from a gym contest), the solution…

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CF 104655C2 - Bacterial Tactics C2

The problem statement is missing, so I can’t reconstruct the logic or produce a correct Codeforces-style editorial.

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