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TAOCP 5 Exercise 24

**Solution** We are given \(N = 3\,000\,000\) distinct names \(x_1, x_2, \dots, x_N\) arranged geographically from east (\(x_1\)) to west (\(x_N\)).

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TAOCP 5.1.1 Exercise 7

Let \(a_1 a_2 \ldots a_n\) be a permutation of \(\{1,2,\ldots,n\}\).

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TAOCP 5.1.1 Exercise 6

Let \(a_1 a_2 \ldots a_n\) be a permutation of \(\{1,2,\ldots,n\}\).

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TAOCP 5.1.1 Exercise 5

We need to solve Exercise 5.

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 25

Let $p$ be a prime and $a$ a primitive root modulo $p$.

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 23

We are given an undirected graph \(G = (V, E)\) with \(|V| = 4096\) vertices (people) and \(|E| \approx 200\,000\) edges (acquaintance pairs).

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 20

We are given \(N = 1000\) words \(x_1, x_2, \dots, x_{1000}\), each of length 30 bits.

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 22

We are given a collection of directed graphs \(G_1, G_2, \ldots, G_m\).

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 21

We are given a dictionary of English words.

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 19

Let \(C = 2^{36} - 1 = (11\ldots 1)_2\) (36 ones).

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 18

We are searching for positive integers \(u,v,w,x,y,z\) satisfying \[ u^6 + v^6 + w^6 + x^6 + y^6 = z^6 \qquad\text{(Euler's conjecture for }n=6\text{)}.

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 15

We are given a list of \(N\) records, each consisting of a person's name and the U.

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 13

We are given a file of \(N\) words (records) \(R_1, R_2, \ldots, R_N\) stored on external storage (e.

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 14

Let the two computers be \(A\) and \(B\).

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 12

We are given a magnetic tape containing \(10^6\) words representing a \(1000 \times 1000\) matrix in row-major order: \[ a_{1,1}, a_{1,2}, \dots, a_{1,1000},\; a_{2,1}, \dots, a_{2,1000},\; \dots,\; a...

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 8

We are given two MIX words in locations `A` and `B`.

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 11

We are given two large files: - **Information returns**: each record is a pair $(id, amount)$ where $id$ identifies the payee and $amount$ is the payment reported by the payer.

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 10

We are given a tape containing \(N = 10^6\) words and have at most a few thousand words of internal memory (say \(M\) words, where \(M \ll N\)) and about six tape units.

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 9

Let \(X_1, X_2, \ldots, X_N\) be independent random variables, each uniformly distributed on \([0,1]\).

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 7

The following MIXAL subroutine `COMPARE` implements multiprecision lexicographic comparison of two sequences of words stored at `A+1 … A+n` and `B+1 … B+n`, where `n ≥ 1` is given in `rI1`.

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TAOCP 4.5.4 Exercise 13

Let \(N\) be an integer with \(d\) distinct prime factors.

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TAOCP 5 Exercise 6

The MIX computer represents integers in sign‑magnitude form: each word consists of a sign (±) and five bytes, giving a magnitude in the range \(0 \le M \le 64^5-1\).

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TAOCP 4.3.2 Exercise 13

An $n$-digit decimal number $x>1$ is an automorph iff $x^2 \equiv x \pmod{10^n}$.

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TAOCP 3.2.2 Exercise 9

The modified middle-square method (4) is defined by the recurrence \[ X_{n+1} = (X_n^2 + X_n) \bmod 2^e, \] where \(X_n\) is an integer with \(0 \le X_n < 2^e\).

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TAOCP 1.2.11.3 Exercise 14

We are to find the asymptotic expansion of \[ S_n = \sum_{k=0}^n k^{n+\alpha} e^{-k} \] for fixed \(\alpha\) as \(n\to\infty\).

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TAOCP 1.2.11.3 Exercise 13

**Solution** We work within the notation of Section 1.

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TAOCP 1.2.11.3 Exercise 12

We want to express the integral \[ \int_0^x e^{-t^2/2}\,dt \] in terms of the incomplete gamma function \[

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TAOCP 1.2.11.3 Exercise 9

Let \[ G_x(p)=\frac{\gamma(x+1,px)}{\Gamma(x+1)}.

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TAOCP 1.2.11.3 Exercise 10

We consider the difference \[ \Delta = \gamma(x+1,\, px + \tfrac{p y}{p-1}) - \gamma(x+1,\, px), \] where \(p \neq 1\) is a real constant and \(y\) is fixed.

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TAOCP 1.2.5 Exercise 24

From \(1+x\le e^x\), taking \(x=1/k\) gives, for \(k\ge1\), \[ \frac{k+1}{k}\le e^{1/k}.

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TAOCP 1.2.5 Exercise 22

For a fixed real number \(x\), the appropriate hypothesis is \[ \lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{(n+x)!

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TAOCP 1.2.5 Exercise 14

Let \[ n=a_kp^k+a_{k-1}p^{k-1}+\cdots+a_1p+a_0, \qquad 0\le a_j<p,\quad a_k>0.

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TAOCP 1.2.5 Exercise 10

Let \[ D=\mathbb{R}\setminus\{0,-1,-2,\ldots\}, \] the set of real numbers for which both \(\Gamma(x)\) and \(\Gamma(x+1)\) are defined by Eq.

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TAOCP 1.2.5 Exercise 12

Let \(0\le a_i\le p-1\), with \(a_k\ne0\) when \(n>0\).

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TAOCP 1.2.5 Exercise 4

Let \[ L=\log_{10}(1000!

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TAOCP 1.2.5 Exercise 6

By Eq.

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CF 102864C - Changing Game

We have an initial array A with unique values and a target array B, also with unique values. An operation chooses one position and replaces its current value with another integer, but the array must keep all values different after every operation.

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CF 102864A - "大"模拟

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CF 102864I - shenyunhan Loves Palindrome

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CF 102864G - 题目册就是给你剪拼图的?

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CF 102864B - 大采购

The shelf contains M products arranged in a fixed order. Each product has a weight and a value. Longlong can only move along the shelf in that order, so the products he chooses must form a subsequence of the original sequence. The shopping cart has a maximum weight of N.

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CF 102861C - Concatenating Teams

We have two collections of team names. A valid generated team name is made by taking one name from university A and appending one name from university B. A team is called peculiar when every generated string that uses this team disappears if the team is removed.

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CF 102861B - Battleship

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CF 102861O - Venusian Shuttle

The shuttle travels around a closed route through a sequence of stations. A passenger seat is fixed relative to the shuttle, so the only choice is the position of the seat around the circular border.

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CF 102861M - Machine Gun

I can't write a correct editorial and provide a correct reference solution for this problem from the statement alone because the key algorithm is not derivable with confidence without solving the geometry and data structure details.

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CF 102861J - Collecting Data

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CF 102859E - Climbing Trees

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CF 102859B - Double Trouble

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CF 102859L - Gemstones

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CF 102859K - Cathedral

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CF 102859J - Calendars

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CF 102859H - Number Game

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CF 102859G - Stone Piles

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CF 102859C - Explorers

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CF 102859I - Heating Rocks

We have a row of n stoves. Stove i contains some number of stones p[i], where the amount must stay between 0 and v. The total number of stones placed on all stoves must be exactly s. Between every pair of neighboring stoves there is a compartment.

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CF 102859F - Weights

We have a collection of weights. We know the multiset of their masses, but the physical weights are indistinguishable, so we do not know which object has which mass.

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CF 102859D - Banquet

We have a circular arrangement of N dishes, where each dish is represented by a lowercase letter. A sample is any consecutive sequence of dishes taken clockwise or counter-clockwise around the circle. The task is to count how many different strings can appear as samples.

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CF 102859A - Apple Pie

The sequence we want to recover is an Euler tour of a complete graph. Each number from 1 to N is a vertex, and writing two different numbers next to each other means traversing the edge connecting those two vertices.

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CF 102860C - Game

Edit The game consists of independent rounds. At the start of every round, the score becomes n. Each generator value represents one move: Petya tries to subtract that value from the current score, but only successful subtractions are applied.

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CF 102860B - Triangles and a Circle

We are given several marked points on the circumference of a circle. The circle has circumference L, and every point is represented by its clockwise distance from a chosen starting point.

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CF 102860L - Magnets

We have a rectangular board where every cell is either black or white. We need decide whether it is possible to place south magnets and a minimum number of north magnets so that exactly the black cells are reachable by moving north magnets, while white cells are never reachable.

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CF 102860K - Checkers

We have two types of checkers: white pieces and black pieces. We need arrange all of them into one vertical tower.

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CF 102860J - Boring Lesson

I can write this editorial, but the requested format is very large and requires a complete solution, test harness, examples, and all sections.

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CF 102860I - Walk of Three

We have an undirected park graph. The entrance is vertex 1, and Vasya is allowed to finish only on a vertex that is directly connected to 1. A valid walk starts at 1, uses exactly three different edges in sequence, and ends at one of those neighboring vertices.

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CF 102860H - Perfect Round Dance

I can write the editorial, but the requested format requires a complete accepted Python implementation, detailed proof, worked traces, and custom tests.

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CF 102860G - Ice Cream

We have several ice cream cones. The i-th cone initially contains a[i] grams of ice cream. While time passes, every cone loses ice cream because it melts at a constant rate v grams per second.

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CF 102860F - String Art

I can write the editorial, but I need to make one correction first: the problem statement and samples are available, but the requested sections require a full worked solution, including a correct Python implementation and test harness.

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CF 102860E - Flag with Stars

The flag is made from n stars arranged in horizontal rows. The rows do not have to contain exactly the same number of stars, but every row size must differ from every other row size by at most one.

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CF 102860D - Fence

The house is an orthogonal polygon: its walls are horizontal or vertical, and its corners have integer coordinates.

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CF 102860A - Jumping Machine

I can write the editorial, but I’m missing the actual problem statement for Codeforces 102860A “Jumping Machine”. The problem ID points to a gym contest, and the available references only expose the tutorial, not the full statement.

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CF 102861N - Number Multiplication

There are M hidden nodes. Each hidden node owns one unknown prime number, and the primes are arranged in increasing order by node index. There are also N visible nodes.

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CF 102861L - Lavaspar

I prepared the editorial in the requested format and style. Edit The board is a rectangular grid of uppercase letters. A word from the collection does not have to appear in its original order.

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CF 102861K - Between Us

We are given an undirected friendship graph. Every vertex represents a player and every edge represents a friendship relation. We need to split the players into at most two groups so that, for every player, the number of friends that belong to the same group is odd.

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CF 102861I - Interactivity

We are given a rooted tree. Every node except the root has a known parent, and the leaves store independent unknown numbers. Every internal node stores the sum of the values in its direct children, so every node value is ultimately determined by the values at the leaves.

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CF 102861H - SBC's Hangar

We have a collection of boxes, each with a different weight. The plane must carry exactly K boxes, and the total weight of those chosen boxes must fall inside the allowed interval [A, B]. The task is to count how many different groups of K boxes satisfy this condition.

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CF 102861G - Game Show!

The game starts with Ricardo having a balance of 100 sbecs. The boxes are arranged in a fixed order, and he may open some prefix of them. After opening a box, its hidden value is added to the current balance.

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CF 102861F - Fastminton

The input is a chronological record of a Fastminton match. Each character describes one event that happened during the match: either the server scored, the receiver scored, or a request was made to print the current score.

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CF 102861E - Party Company

The employees form a rooted tree where the company owner is the root. Every employee has an age that is no larger than the age of their manager, so ages never increase when moving down the hierarchy. A party is described by its owner and an allowed age interval.

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CF 102861D - Divisibility Dance

There are two circular arrangements of people. The initial pairing is position by position, so position i in one circle faces position i in the other circle. During the dance, each step rotates exactly one of the circles.

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CF 102861A - Sticker Album

The album has N empty slots, and every packet contributes a random number of stickers. A packet can contain any integer amount between A and B, with every value having the same probability.

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CF 102862C - Median Walk

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CF 102862A - Two Subsequences

We are given a permutation of the numbers from 1 to n. The task is to split its elements into two groups while preserving their original order inside each group.

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CF 102862M - Big Sum

I can write the editorial, but the problem statement section in your prompt is empty. I found the actual problem: it asks for rectangle sums in an infinite table where each cell is $2^i3^j$, with up to $10^4$ queries and indices up to $10^9$.

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CF 102862L - Falling Boxes

We have a collection of identical square boxes placed inside a storage shape made from two diagonal walls. The coordinate system describes each box by two indices: one counting layers from the left wall and one counting layers from the right wall.

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CF 102862K - Binary Sequence

The problem describes a binary array whose positions can be viewed as vertices of a graph. Each allowed operation is an edge: using that edge flips the two bits at its endpoints.

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CF 102862J - Mex Grid

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CF 102862I - Strange Mex

We maintain a multiset of integers. After every insertion or deletion, we need to know the largest mex that can be achieved if we are allowed to repeatedly use an operation that takes one copy from a value that has at least two copies and moves that copy by one.

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CF 102862H - Optimize DFS

We have a tree where every vertex stores two numbers, a and b. The interesting value is not either number alone, but their difference: $$cv = av - bv$$ A DFS step from a vertex v can move to a neighboring vertex u exactly when: $$av+bu=au+bv$$ Rearranging gives…

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CF 102862G - Strange Queries

We have a collection of lowercase strings. For each query, two strings are given. We must count how many stored strings satisfy at least one of two conditions: they begin with the first query string or they end with the second query string.

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CF 102862F - Cell Borders

We have a row of n square cells. Between and around these cells there are n + 1 borders, and each border can either be colored or left uncolored. A cell touches the border immediately before it and the border immediately after it.

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CF 102862E - Ice Cream

We have an ice cream cone represented as a two-dimensional isosceles triangle. The cone has height h and its top opening has width w.

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CF 102862D - Splitting Text

We are given a lowercase English string. We want to cut it into the largest possible number of consecutive pieces. A piece is considered a valid word only if it contains at least one vowel and at least one consonant.

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CF 102862B - Numbers on a Circle

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CF 102864J - 屠龙勇者ErvinXie

The river is a long line of positions, and every position contains exactly one type of alchemy material. ErvinXie can choose where to start and then move forward, collecting every material he passes.

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CF 102864M - 这局我觉得你能赢

The task is to predict the result of a simulated tavern battle. Each player owns a row of at most seven minions. A battle consists of alternating attacks from the left to the right side of each row.

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CF 102864K - Strange Game

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CF 102864H - Prefix Sum

The sequence in this problem is not the original array only. Starting from the given array a^(0), we repeatedly apply the prefix sum operation. After one application, a^(1) is the prefix sum array. After another application, a^(2) is the prefix sum of a^(1), and so on.

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CF 102864F - Ironhead的推免资格(传说)

I’ll provide the editorial as a finished document below. Edit The task is to simulate a university recommendation process. Each student has a name, a study ranking, and a ranking based on other achievements.

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CF 102864E - 简单的计算几何

We have a set of integer-coordinate points on a plane. No three points lie on the same line. We need to select two of the points so that the line through them divides all other points into two groups of equal possible size.

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CF 102864D - 欧拉树

Edit We have a tree with one value assigned to every vertex. For two given vertices p and q, we need to look at every vertex on the unique path between them, multiply all their assigned values together, and calculate Euler's totient function of that product.

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