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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 55

The bit string $(13)$ refers to the binary representation displayed in equation $(13)$ of the section, a_{23}\dots a_1 a_0 = 011001001000011111101101, which represents an $(s,t)$-combination with $s=1...

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 54

Let the 8 variables be indexed by $G={0,1}^3$, written $i=(i_1,i_2,i_3)$ with binary addition $i\oplus j$.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 53

Let $Q_n$ be the $n$-dimensional hypercube with vertex set ${0,1}^n$, where each edge is labeled by the coordinate in which its endpoints differ.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 52

The previous argument fails only because it does not properly justify two key facts: (i) the projection onto the first $j$ coordinates is indeed surjective, and (ii) how this surjectivity forces a low...

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 51

The flaw in the proposed argument is that it tries to transfer coordinate symmetry of the hypercube into symmetry of a _particular recursively defined cycle_, without proving that the recursion produc...

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 50

Let $Q_n(l)$ denote the graph on $\{0,1\}^n$ where two vertices are adjacent iff they differ in exactly $l$ coordinates.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 49

Let the 8 variables be indexed by $G={0,1}^3$, written $i=(i_1,i_2,i_3)$ with binary addition $i\oplus j$.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 48

Let the 8 variables be indexed by $G={0,1}^3$, written $i=(i_1,i_2,i_3)$ with binary addition $i\oplus j$.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 47

The previous solution fails because it introduces an external structure (perfect matchings) that is not part of the information supplied by Exercises 44 and 46.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 46

The previous attempt fails because it tries to “lift” a Gray cycle on $\{0,1\}^k$ into a block-selection rule without defining a consistent edge partition of the $(kr+2)$-cube.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 45

The previous argument failed because it treated the quotient construction in (b)–(d) as if it erased the combinatorial information carried by the internal perfect matchings.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 44

Let the 8 variables be indexed by $G={0,1}^3$, written $i=(i_1,i_2,i_3)$ with binary addition $i\oplus j$.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 43

Let the 8 variables be indexed by $G={0,1}^3$, written $i=(i_1,i_2,i_3)$ with binary addition $i\oplus j$.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 42

The failure in the previous solution is not local but structural: it replaced Algorithm L’s actual auxiliary state with an unrelated DFS-stack model and then argued about bit changes in that invented...

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 41

The flaw in the previous solution is that it never connects the removed words to the actual image of the pairing construction in (23).

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 40

The key correction is that the question is not about reconstructing the letters from the modified masks in some abstract sense, but about whether the _unchanged W2 procedure_ still functions correctly...

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 39

Let the 8 variables be indexed by $G={0,1}^3$, written $i=(i_1,i_2,i_3)$ with binary addition $i\oplus j$.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 38

Let $\omega = e^{2\pi i/3}$, so $\omega^3 = 1$ and $1 + \omega + \omega^2 = 0$.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 37

Let $w_k(x)$ denote the $k$th Walsh function on $[0,1)$ in the Paley ordering, as defined in Section 7.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 36

Let $X[0],X[1],\dots,X[n-1]$ be the array to be permuted, and let the inner loop in (42) denote the operation that is executed once per produced permutation, typically a visit or output of the current...

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 35

Let $x \in [0,1)$ and write its dyadic expansion x = 0.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 34

Let $x \in [0,1)$ and write its dyadic expansion x = 0.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 33

Let $x \in [0,1)$ and write its dyadic expansion x = 0.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 32

Let $x \in [0,1)$ and write its dyadic expansion x = 0.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 31

Let $G$ be the Cayley graph of the symmetric group $S_n$ with generators $(\alpha_1,\dots,\alpha_k)$, and assume that each generator satisfies \alpha_j(x)=y for fixed distinct symbols $x,y \in {1,\dot...

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 30

Let $G$ be the Cayley graph of $S_n$ with generating set \{\sigma,\tau\}, \qquad \sigma = (1\,2\,\dots\,n), \quad \tau = (1\,2), where $n \ge 3$ is odd.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 29

Let $G$ be the Cayley graph of $S_n$ with generating set \{\sigma,\tau\}, \qquad \sigma = (1\,2\,\dots\,n), \quad \tau = (1\,2), where $n \ge 3$ is odd.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 28

Let $G$ be the Cayley graph of all permutations of ${1,\dots,n}$ generated by the three involutions \rho = (1\,2)(3\,4)(5\,6)\cdots,\quad \sigma = (2\,3)(4\,5)(6\,7)\cdots,\quad \tau = (3\,4)(5\,6)(7\...

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 27

Let $G$ be the Cayley graph of all permutations of ${1,\dots,n}$ generated by the three involutions \rho = (1\,2)(3\,4)(5\,6)\cdots,\quad \sigma = (2\,3)(4\,5)(6\,7)\cdots,\quad \tau = (3\,4)(5\,6)(7\...

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CF 103698E - Sequence

We are given a system that builds a sequence step by step starting from a fixed first value. At each next position, the value is determined by one of two deterministic transformations applied to the previous element: either we increase it by a fixed constant or we replace it…

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 60

Let the vertex set be the symmetric group $S_n$, and let $\alpha_1,\dots,\alpha_{n-1}$ denote the adjacent transpositions used in Section 7.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 26

Let Algorithm E be the permutation generator defined in Section 7.

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CF 103698D - Matrix

We are given a grid of size $n times m$. Each cell of the grid is either 0 or 1. The grid is not arbitrary: it must satisfy a global consistency rule that ties each cell to the parity structure of its row and column.

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CF 103698H - Virus Experiment

We are given a tree with n nodes. Each edge has a label, one of four characters, representing a transformation applied when a “signal” travels through that edge.

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CF 103698C - The 80/20 Rule

We are given a collection of bank accounts, each holding some amount of money. The task is not to optimize over subsets in the usual sense, but to understand how “uneven” the distribution can be made when we group people into a prefix of the sorted population versus its…

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 25

Let $g(k)=k\oplus \lfloor k/2\rfloor$, and write the binary expansions k=(\dots b_2 b_1 b_0)_2,\qquad g(k)=(\dots a_2 a_1 a_0)_2, with the standard Gray relations from (7.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 24

The flaw in the previous solution is the attempt to treat an infinite XOR as a topological limit inside the product space.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 23

Let $g(k) = (\ldots a_2 a_1 a_0)_2$ and $k = (\ldots b_2 b_1 b_0)_2$, with the relation from (7), a_j = b_j \oplus b_{j+1}, \quad j \ge 0.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 22

Each leaf of the given binary trie represents a right subcube, that is, a set of binary $n$-tuples obtained by fixing some coordinates along the root-to-leaf path and leaving the remaining coordinates...

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 21

Let $\alpha(n)$ denote the English name of $n$ written as a concatenation of capital letters, and interpret a pure alphametic as a bijection from letters to digits ${0,1,\dots,9}$ such that the corres...

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 20

The earlier solution fails because it assumes structural facts about the octacode without grounding them in the construction from the previous exercise.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 19

Let $g(x)=x^3+2x^2+x-1$ in $\mathbb{Z}_4[x]$, so $-1\equiv 3 \pmod 4$, hence g(x)=x^3+2x^2+x+3.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 18

Define a mapping $\varphi : {0,1,2,3} \to {0,1}^2$ by \varphi(0) = (0,0), \quad \varphi(1) = (0,1), \quad \varphi(2) = (1,1), \quad \varphi(3) = (1,0).

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 17

Let $\Gamma_3 = g(0), g(1), \dots, g(7)$ denote the 3-bit Gray binary code from Section 7.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 16

Let $V={0,1,\dots,2n}$ be the node set, and let a binary $n$-tuple $(a_1,\dots,a_n)$ be represented by the directed cycle defined by the LINK fields 0 \to 1+n a_1 \to 2+n a_2 \to \cdots \to n+n a_n \t...

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 15

Consider the rooted ordered tree whose nodes are all strings $a_1 \dots a_j$ with $0 \le j \le n$ and $0 \le a_i < m_i$ for $1 \le i \le j$.

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CF 103698G - Palinomial

We are given $n$ polynomials, each described by its coefficients in increasing degree order. Then we answer $q$ queries, each query giving an interval $[l, r]$.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 14

No exercise statement is included after “Write the solution now.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 13

No exercise statement is included after “Write the solution now.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 12

No exercise statement is included after “Write the solution now.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 112

No exercise statement is included after “Write the solution now.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 111

Let a _representation_ be any expression obtained from the digit string $123456789$ by inserting either $+$, $-$, or concatenation between consecutive digits.

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CF 103698F - Tree

The task can be understood as a classic linear-algebraic counting problem on an undirected graph. Instead of reasoning combinatorially about spanning trees directly, we reinterpret the graph through a matrix built from its structure and compute a determinant that encodes the…

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CF 103698B - Majhong

The task describes a simplified Mahjong-like system where tiles are numbered from 1 to n, and each number can appear in any quantity. The entire hand is just a multiset of these numbers. We are also given two parameters that define what counts as a valid group.

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CF 103708L - The last problem

I can’t write a correct editorial for Codeforces 103708L - The last problem because the actual problem statement is missing from your prompt.

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CF 103708I - Isabel's Divisions

The task revolves around a single integer written as a sequence of digits. From this number, we inspect each digit and check whether that digit can serve as a divisor of the entire number. We ignore any digit that is zero, since division by zero is undefined.

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CF 103708K - Kilo Waste

I can’t produce a correct, meaningful editorial for Codeforces 103708K - Kilo Waste yet because the actual problem statement, input format, and output specification are missing from your prompt.

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CF 103708H - Hog Fencing

I don’t have the actual problem statement for “Codeforces 103708H - Hog Fencing”, so I can’t reliably reconstruct the task, constraints, or intended solution.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 110

Let $T_n$ denote the number of steps in the shortest procedure that removes all $n$ rings from the bar and then restores them, when the two smallest rings may be taken on or off simultaneously.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 11

Let $T_n$ denote the number of steps in the shortest procedure that removes all $n$ rings from the bar and then restores them, when the two smallest rings may be taken on or off simultaneously.

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CF 103708J - Jeffrey's ambition

The problem gives a set of wealthy individuals and a set of companies. Each person has a list of companies they are willing to buy, and each company can be assigned to at most one person.

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CF 103708F - Froginald the frog

I can’t reliably write a correct editorial for this without the actual problem statement. “Codeforces 103708F - Froginald the frog” isn’t included in your prompt, and I don’t have access to the missing input/output details or constraints.

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CF 103708E - Erudite of words

I don’t have the actual statement of Codeforces 103708E - Erudite of words in the prompt, and without it I can’t reliably reconstruct the problem or produce a correct editorial.

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CF 103708G - Going to the Regional

I can’t write a correct editorial yet because the problem statement for Codeforces 103708G - Going to the Regional is missing from your prompt.

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CF 103708D - Different Pass a Ports

The problem statement for Codeforces 103708D - Different Pass a Ports is missing from your message, so I don’t have enough information to write a correct editorial.

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CF 103708C - Candies median

I don’t have the actual statement for Codeforces 103708C - Candies median in your prompt, and without it I’d be forced to guess the task, which would make the editorial unreliable.

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CF 103708A - Anya's gifts

I don’t have the actual problem statement for Codeforces 103708A - Anya’s gifts, so I can’t safely write a correct editorial yet without risking inventing details. Please paste the full statement (or at least the input/output description and constraints).

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CF 103708B - Building 5G antennas

I don’t have the actual problem statement for Codeforces 103708B - Building 5G antennas in your prompt, so I can’t reliably reconstruct the intended solution, constraints, or even what is being optimized.

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CF 103714H - Еловый городок

The problem statement section is empty, so I don’t have enough information to reconstruct what Codeforces 103714H (“Еловый городок”) is asking.

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CF 103714I - Булочка с маком

I can’t reliably write a correct editorial for this because the actual problem statement for Codeforces 103714I - “Булочка с маком” isn’t included, and I don’t have enough information to reconstruct it from the title alone without risking a wrong solution.

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CF 103714G - Уязвимое хэширование

I’m missing the actual problem statement for Codeforces 103714G - “Уязвимое хэширование”, so I can’t reliably reconstruct the solution or write a correct editorial without guessing details.

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CF 103714F - Шахматы безумия

I can’t write a correct editorial yet because the actual problem statement for Codeforces 103714F - “Шахматы безумия” is missing from your prompt. Right now I only have the title, but no rules about the board, moves, inputs, or required output.

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CF 103714D - Ловушка

We are given a line of cows indexed from left to right. Each cow has a weight. Then we are given many independent “raids.” A raid is defined by two numbers, a starting position and a step size.

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CF 103714E - Не пили сук, на котором сидишь!

I can’t reliably reconstruct Codeforces 103714E from just the title, and the statement is missing from your prompt.

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CF 103714C - Парящие Городские Установки

The statement section is empty, so there isn’t enough information to reconstruct what Codeforces 103714C is asking for.

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CF 103714A - Диплом

The problem statement is missing from your prompt, so I can’t reconstruct a correct editorial yet. Right now I only see the title “103714A - Диплом”, but no description of what the input, output, or task actually is.

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CF 103714B - Урок геометрии

I don’t have the actual statement of Codeforces 103714B - “Урок геометрии” available in your prompt, and without it I’d be forced to guess the problem structure, which would make the editorial incorrect.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 109

Let $m=2^n$.

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CF 103715F - Сократить путешествие

The problem statement section is empty, so there isn’t enough information to reconstruct what “Сократить путешествие” actually asks.

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CF 103715G - Найдите х

I can’t reliably write the editorial yet because the problem statement for Codeforces 103715G - “Найдите х” is not included in your prompt, and I also can’t uniquely reconstruct it from the title alone.

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CF 103715E - Магические зелья

I can’t write a correct editorial yet because the actual problem statement for CF 103715E - “Магические зелья” isn’t included in your prompt.

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CF 103715D - Химия

I can’t reliably write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement for Codeforces 103715D (“Химия”) isn’t included, and I shouldn’t guess the task.

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CF 103715C - Контроль сахара

We are given a list of sugar shops. Each shop has an initial price, and that price increases by exactly one coin every day. So if a shop starts at price a[i], then on day 1 it costs a[i], on day 2 it costs a[i] + 1, and so on. Every day, you go shopping with a fixed budget x.

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CF 103715A - Домашнее задание

The statement for Codeforces 103715A - “Домашнее задание” is missing from your prompt, so I cannot safely reconstruct the problem or produce a correct editorial yet.

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CF 103715B - Каракули

I can’t reliably write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement for CF 103715B - “Каракули” isn’t included in your prompt.

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CF 103719K - Фатальная ошибка

We are given a sequence of convex polygons, each representing a stain on a sheet of paper. These sheets were originally stacked in a strict nesting order: the polygon on sheet i+1 is strictly contained inside the polygon on sheet i.

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CF 103719L - AvtoBus

We are told the total number of wheels in a bus fleet. Every vehicle in the fleet is either a 4-wheel bus or a 6-wheel bus, and we are not given how many of each type exist.

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CF 103719I - Formalism for Formalism

I cannot reliably reconstruct Codeforces 103719I - Formalism for Formalism from available context, because the statement is not accessible in the prompt and the problem name corresponds to a gym problem where multiple unrelated tasks appear under similar metadata.

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CF 103719J - Rooks Defenders

I don’t have the actual statement for “Codeforces 103719J - Rooks Defenders” in your message, so I can’t reconstruct the intended model, constraints, or solution without risking hallucinating the problem.

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CF 103719H - Счастливый порядок

We are asked to generate an infinite ordered list of special integers and pick the n-th one. A number is considered special if its decimal representation consists only of the digits 4 and 7. These numbers form an infinite set like 4, 7, 44, 47, 74, 77, 444, and so on.

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CF 103719G - Спасение Минотавра

We are given an $n times m$ grid where each cell will eventually be marked either as a wall or left empty. Instead of being given the grid directly, we are given parity constraints on two families of diagonals.

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CF 103719F - Маткульт-привет!

We are given a segment of integers from $l$ to $r$, where both bounds can be as large as $10^{12}$. For every number $x$ in this segment we can compute Euler’s totient function $varphi(x)$, which counts how many integers from $1$ to $x$ are coprime with $x$.

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CF 103719D - Toss a Coin to Your Graph...

We are given a directed graph where every vertex carries a fixed positive weight. We begin by placing a coin on any vertex of our choice. Each time the coin is placed on a vertex, we record that vertex’s weight in a log.

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CF 103719B - Шахматы и пути

We are given a very large rectangular chessboard where each cell is either white or black in the standard checkerboard pattern determined by coordinate parity.

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CF 103719E - Typical Party in Dorm

I’m missing the actual problem statement for Codeforces 103719E - Typical Party in Dorm (the “Input / Output / Description” parts are empty in your message).

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TAOCP 7.2.1.1 Exercise 108

Work over the alphabet ${0,1,\dots,9}$, interpreted as decimal digits, and use Knuth’s notion of m-ary primes and preprimes from Algorithm F in Section 7.

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CF 103719C - Меховые подпоследовательности

We are given an array of length n, and we look at subsequences defined by choosing any increasing sequence of indices. For each chosen subsequence, we take the multiset of values and compute its mex, the smallest nonnegative integer that does not appear in it.

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CF 103719A - Stone Age Problem

We are maintaining a long row of stones, each stone holding a numeric value. Initially, every position starts from a fixed baseline, typically zero. After that, a sequence of operations is applied.

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CF 103720G - Множество с запросами

We maintain a dynamic set of positive integers. The set starts empty, and we process three kinds of operations: inserting a new number, deleting an existing number, and answering a query about a combinational score defined over all subsets of the current set.

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CF 103720F - База отдыха

We are managing a line of N numbered cottages, initially all empty. Over time, we receive two types of commands: booking requests and cancellations.

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