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CF 103648J - Birding In The Rain

The problem statement is missing from your prompt, so there’s no reliable way to write a correct editorial for it.

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CF 103648G - Dove Dance

The brute-force idea is to maintain an explicit set of all strings currently in the dance and, on each query, iterate over all strings and check whether the query is a prefix of any of them. For a type three operation, we physically reverse every string in the set.

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CF 103648H - Fledgling Fight

The problem statement is missing from your prompt (both the description and I/O sections are empty), so there isn’t enough information to write a correct Codeforces editorial. “Fledgling Fight” could refer to many different mechanics (graphs, game theory, simulation, etc.

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CF 103648E - Bird Watching

Let $x in [0,1)$ and write its dyadic expansion $$x = 0.x1 x2 x3 ldots,qquad xj in {0,1}.$$ Let $rj(x)$ denote the $j$-th Rademacher function, $$rj(x) = (-1)^{xj}.

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CF 103648D - Parrot Riddles

I can’t write a correct editorial for “Codeforces 103648D - Parrot Riddles” because the actual problem statement is missing from your prompt.

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CF 103648F - Firebird

I can’t write a correct editorial for that problem yet because the actual statement (what Firebird asks, what the input/output mean, and constraints) is missing. Right now I only know the Codeforces ID, not the problem content.

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CF 103652L - Pyramid

We are given a discrete “pyramidal” lattice of points arranged in horizontal levels. Level 1 has one vertex, level 2 has two vertices, level 3 has three, and so on, forming a triangular arrangement.

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CF 103652K - Sticks

We are given 12 stick lengths per test case. From these 12 numbers, we want to form as many triangles as possible. Each triangle uses exactly three distinct sticks, and a stick cannot be reused across triangles.

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CF 103652J - Square Substrings

We are given a string and many independent queries over it. Each query specifies a segment of the string, and we must count how many subsegments inside that range are “perfect squares”.

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CF 103652G - Cosmic Cleaner

Let $G$ be the Cayley graph of the symmetric group $Sn$ with generators $(alpha1,dots,alphak)$, and assume that each generator satisfies $$alphaj(x)=y$$ for fixed distinct symbols $x,y in {1,dots,n}$.

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CF 103652I - Routes

We are given a kingdom of cities connected by railways. Each railway is described as a sequence of cities in travel order, and moving between adjacent cities on the same railway takes one hour.

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CF 103652H - Quicksort

We are given a randomized input permutation of the numbers from 1 to n, and we repeatedly apply a nonstandard QuickSort procedure that behaves like a real quicksort only for a limited recursion depth k.

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CF 103652F - Square Subsequences

We are given a string and asked to extract a subsequence that forms a “square”. A square string is one whose length is even and whose first half is identical to its second half.

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CF 103652E - Power of Function

We are given a deterministic function defined on non-negative integers. From any integer $n$, the function either divides it by a fixed constant $k$ when possible, or decreases it by one otherwise.

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CF 103652B - Linear Congruential Generator

Let $G$ be the Cayley graph of the symmetric group $Sn$ with generators $(alpha1,dots,alphak)$, and assume that each generator satisfies $$alphaj(x)=y$$ for fixed distinct symbols $x,y in {1,dots,n}$.

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CF 103652D - Honeycomb

The input describes several independent test cases, each of which gives a finite hexagonal grid drawn in ASCII art. Inside this drawing there are marked cells, each marked by a star in the center. These starred cells are the only vertices of interest.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 110

Algorithm R (revolving-door combinations) can be interpreted on the binary representation of an $(s,t)$-combination as a Gray-code–like walk on strings of length $n=s+t$ with exactly $t$ ones.

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CF 103652C - Fibonacci Strikes Back

We are given a generalized Fibonacci sequence defined by a parameter $P$. The sequence starts with fixed seeds $F0 = 0$ and $F1 = 1$, and every next term is formed by a linear recurrence $Fn = P cdot F{n-1} + F{n-2}$.

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CF 103652A - Erase Nodes

We are given a graph that is connected and has exactly $n$ vertices and $n$ edges, so it contains exactly one cycle with trees possibly hanging off it. Initially all nodes are active.

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CF 103660H - Distance

Let $G$ be the Cayley graph of the symmetric group $Sn$ with generators $(alpha1,dots,alphak)$, and assume that each generator satisfies $$alphaj(x)=y$$ for fixed distinct symbols $x,y in {1,dots,n}$.

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CF 103660K - Substring Inversion (Hard Version)

We are given a string made of lowercase letters. We are asked to count pairs of substrings taken from different starting positions such that the substring starting earlier in the string is lexicographically larger than the substring starting later.

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CF 103660L - Monster Tower

We are given a tower of monsters arranged in a line from bottom to top. Each floor has a monster with a fixed strength. A player starts with some initial strength $x$.

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CF 103660J - Substring Inversion (Easy Version)

We are given a string and we want to count ordered pairs of substrings where the first substring is lexicographically greater than the second one, with the additional restriction that the first substring must start strictly earlier in the string.

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CF 103660I - Array Division

We are given two arrays of equal length, and we want to cut the index range from 1 to n into several consecutive segments. Each index must belong to exactly one segment, and the segments must cover the whole array without gaps or overlap.

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CF 103660F - Sum of Numerators

We are given two integers, $n$ and $k$, and a sequence of $n$ fractions whose structure follows a fixed pattern. The denominators are all the same value, while the numerators form a simple arithmetic progression starting from 1 up to $n$.

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CF 103660G - Guaba and Computational Geometry

We are given a collection of axis-aligned rectangles on a 2D plane. Each rectangle has a weight, and we want to pick exactly two rectangles such that they do not overlap in the sense that there is no point that lies inside both rectangles, and maximize the sum of their weights.

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CF 103660C - Ah, It's Yesterday Once More

Let $G$ be the Cayley graph of $Sn$ 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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CF 103660D - Reflection

We are given a grid containing $n$ mirrors placed at distinct coordinates. Each mirror has a type, either A or B, which determines how a light ray changes direction when it hits that mirror.

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CF 103660E - Disjoint Path On Tree

We are given a tree, and we consider every simple path inside it. A simple path is any sequence of vertices where each vertex is visited at most once, so in a tree this is exactly the unique path between any two chosen endpoints, including the degenerate case where both…

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 11

We rebuild the analysis from the actual control structure of Algorithm P (plain changes, Johnson–Trotter) rather than any external digit model.

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CF 103660A - Who is The 19th ZUCCPC Champion

The task describes an output-only situation where there is no input to read. We are only required to print a single string that would be considered valid as an answer.

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CF 103660B - Jiubei and Overwatch

We are given a damage skill whose output depends on how long it is charged. The damage grows linearly, but the growth rate changes once the charging time crosses a threshold $k$. Before or at $k$ seconds, each second contributes $x$ damage.

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CF 103664H - Часовщик

Let $G$ be the Cayley graph of $Sn$ 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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CF 103664J - Объявления

We are given a train route described as a sequence of stations in order along the line. Some subset of these stations are stopping points, while the rest are passed without stopping.

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CF 103664I - Треугольные числа

We are asked to construct a sequence of $n$ distinct positive integers such that any three chosen numbers from the sequence can form the side lengths of a non-degenerate triangle.

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CF 103664G - Обеденное время

We are given a current clock reading in 24-hour format and two limits, one allowing the clock to be shifted backward by at most a minutes and another allowing it to be shifted forward by at most b minutes.

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CF 103664F - Сбор свидетельских показаний

We are given a set of people who can potentially share information, represented as an undirected graph. Each person is a node, and an edge between two nodes means they are acquaintances. The detective calls people in a fixed order, from 1 to n.

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CF 103664B - Большие экраны

Let $G$ be the Cayley graph of $Sn$ 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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CF 103664E - Картошка

Two players, John and Paul, alternately say a word, starting with John. Each time a player speaks, they choose an integer strength within their personal range. John can choose any value from 1 up to $RJ$, and Paul from 1 up to $RP$.

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CF 103664D - Обмен

We are given a strictly increasing list of coin denominations, where each denomination divides the next one. This means the system behaves like a chained multiplicative structure rather than arbitrary coin values.

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CF 103664C - Тест на терпение

We are given several independent triples of integers. For each triple, we need to decide whether it is possible to construct two non-negative integers $x$ and $y$ such that three conditions hold simultaneously: their bitwise AND equals a given value $a$, their bitwise OR…

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CF 103664A - Стикеры

We are given a rectangular board with sides a and b, placed in a fixed orientation so that its bottom edge is horizontal. Over k days, identical square stickers were placed one per day, each sticker also oriented so its bottom edge is horizontal.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 109

We address the errors directly and rebuild the argument in a fully rigorous way.

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CF 103665L - А она ему как раз

We are given a set of hats, each described by four numbers. These numbers define a structured bargaining process between a buyer and a seller.

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CF 103665J - Уборка

We are given three stacks of books. Every book has a unique label from 1 to s, where s is the total number of books across all stacks. Each stack is described from bottom to top, so each stack is essentially a sequence where only the last element is currently accessible.

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CF 103665I - Домашняя работа

We are given a multiset of digits, all of them nonzero, and we are allowed to arrange them in any order to form a number. The task introduces two participants who both construct numbers from the same digit set.

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CF 103665F - Наблюдение на выборах

There are several voting districts, and each district contains a number of polling stations. Every station has a predicted amount of fraudulent ballots that would be added there if nothing is done. The goal is to reduce the total fraud by placing observers.

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CF 103665G - Сейф

We are given a row of digits. In one move, we may pick a single position and increase or decrease that digit by one, staying within the range 0 to 9. The goal is not to reach a fixed target string, but to reach any configuration where some digit value appears at least k times.

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CF 103665E - Пропавшие слитки

We are given a collection of identical gold bars, and each bar can be oriented in one of three effective ways, contributing a height of either a, b, or c. All bars must be used exactly once, and we stack them into a single tower.

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CF 103665D - Game of stones

We are given a line of $n$ stones, each colored either black or white. The goal is to determine whether, by repeatedly applying allowed local recoloring operations, it is possible to transform the entire line so that all stones end up with the same color.

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CF 103665C - Доставка новости

We are given a rectangular grid of cities with height h and width w. Each cell is a city, and from any city the news can be passed in one day to other cities reachable by a chess knight move, meaning the usual eight L shaped moves, as long as the destination cell stays inside…

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CF 103665A - Решение задач

Two contestants are tracking how many programming problems they solve over time. Each of them already has some number of solved problems, and then they continue solving at a constant daily rate.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 108

The flaw in the previous solution is the attempt to decompose the dynamics into independent subgames.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 107

Represent the binomial tree $T_n$ in the left-child, right-sibling representation of exercise 2.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 106

A weak order on ${1,\dots,n}$ is represented in Exercise 105(b) by a sequence $a_1a_2\dots a_n$ where $a_j$ equals the number of symbols $\prec$ that precede $j$ in the underlying relation.

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CF 103964E - Ba Gua Zhen

The task describes a transformation on a structured arrangement of elements, which you can think of as a grid or a set of positions laid out in a fixed geometry.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 105

The reviewer’s objection to part (b) rests on a mistaken separation between “ordered partitions” and the block indexing used in the encoding.

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CF 103666J - Башни

We are given a sequence of tower heights placed along a line, where each position has a unique height value. The task is to count how many triples of indices $i < j < k$ form a strictly increasing sequence in both position and height, meaning $hi < hj < hk$.

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CF 103666I - Нужно больше золота

We are given a collection of magical artifacts, each with a positive value $wi$. The hero starts with zero magical power. Each artifact must be used exactly once, and each one can be activated in one of two ways.

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CF 103666G - ASCII-графика

We are given a small grid, where each cell is a character representing a tiny square tile of a drawing. Each tile is either empty or contains a diagonal segment.

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CF 103666E - Сборная Юпитера

We are given a small grid, at most 20 by 20, where each cell contains a direction character among N, S, E, and W.

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CF 103666C - Марсианские нолики

We are working in a positional numeral system with base $k$, where numbers are written using digits from $0$ to $k-1$. A number is called “sufficiently round” if, when written in base $k$, its representation ends with at least $n$ zero digits.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 104

Let S(a_1\ldots a_n)=\sum_{k=1}^n k a_k.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 103

Let $S_n$ act on ${1,\dots,n}$ in Knuth’s standard one-line notation.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 102

We reframe the problem in a way that makes the adjacency condition precise and then build a recursive cyclic Gray ordering that preserves it under the embeddings required by involutions.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 101

Represent the binomial tree $T_n$ in the left-child, right-sibling representation of exercise 2.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 100

Represent the binomial tree $T_n$ in the left-child, right-sibling representation of exercise 2.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 10

Let the alphabet be ${x_1 < x_2 < \cdots < x_t}$ with multiplicities $n_1,\ldots,n_t$ and $\sum_{i=1}^t n_i = n$.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 9

The failure in the previous solution is entirely caused by an inconsistent global state variable $t$.

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CF 103666D - Спорт или еда

We are given a binary schedule of length $n$, where each position represents what Arseniy plans to do in a specific hour: either training or eating. The schedule is fixed as a string over two characters, where one letter stands for training and the other for eating.

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CF 103666B - Тройной Фибоначчи

We are given a Fibonacci-like sequence where the first two terms are fixed as $F1 = 1$ and $F2 = 2$, and every later term is the sum of the previous two. This produces a deterministic infinite sequence of integers.

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CF 103671C - End Time

The problem statement is missing from your prompt (the sections for Problem, Input, and Output are empty). Without the actual description, any editorial would be guesswork, and that would defeat the purpose of a correct Codeforces-style writeup.

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CF 103671B - Village Bridge 2

I can’t reliably write an editorial without the actual problem statement for Codeforces 103671B - it isn’t included in your prompt, and I don’t have access to it from here.

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CF 103671A - Village Bridge

I don’t have the actual problem statement for “Codeforces 103671A - Village Bridge” in your prompt, so I can’t produce a correct editorial yet without risking inventing details.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 8

The reviewer’s diagnosis is correct: the previous proof failed because it tried to identify _submultisets_ with _Algorithm L states_, which are not unique.

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CF 103677N - Freaky Fertilizer Tests

The problem statement is missing from your prompt, so there isn’t enough information to reconstruct what needs to be solved.

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CF 103677M - Grape Juice Country

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement is missing. “Codeforces 103677M - Grape Juice Country” isn’t enough on its own to reconstruct the task reliably, and anything I write without the statement would risk inventing…

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CF 103677L - French Raisins

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

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CF 103677K - Wine Grapes

I don’t have the actual statement of “Codeforces 103677K - Wine Grapes” in the prompt, so I can’t reliably reconstruct the problem or produce a correct editorial.

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CF 103677J - Trail Mix Ad

I don’t have the actual statement for Codeforces 103677J “Trail Mix Ad” in the prompt you provided, so I can’t reliably reconstruct the problem, constraints, or solution without risking inventing details.

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CF 103677I - Faction Feud

I can’t write a correct editorial for Codeforces 103677I - Faction Feud because the actual problem statement (and thus the rules, constraints, and required transformations) is missing from your prompt.

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CF 103677H - Alexander the Grape

The problem statement section is empty, so there isn’t enough information to reconstruct what “Alexander the Grape” is asking for.

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CF 103677D - Grape Field

We are given a set of grape types, each type having a required minimum usage amount. The winery produces bottles of wine, and each bottle is formed by selecting exactly $n-1$ distinct grape types out of the $n$ available, using one unit of each selected type.

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CF 103677F - Sour Grapes

I can’t write a correct editorial for “Codeforces 103677F - Sour Grapes” because the problem statement is missing from your prompt.

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CF 103677E - Festa des Vermar

I don’t have the actual statement of Codeforces 103677E “Festa des Vermar” in the prompt, and I can’t reconstruct it reliably from the title alone without risking inventing details.

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CF 103677C - Raisin Box

I don’t have the actual problem statement for Codeforces 103677C - Raisin Box in your prompt, and I can’t reliably reconstruct it from the title alone without risking inventing details.

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CF 103677B - With Grape Power comes Grape Responsibility

I can’t write a correct editorial yet because the actual problem statement is missing. Right now I only see the title “Codeforces 103677B - With Grape Power comes Grape Responsibility”, but there is no description of the input, output, or rules.

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CF 103677A - Raiser Mais

I can’t write a correct editorial for this yet because the actual problem statement (what “Raiser Mais” is asking) is missing. Right now I only have the title and metadata, but no description of the input/output or the task itself.

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CF 103678G - Бернард и прятки на дереве

I’m missing the actual problem statement for “Codeforces 103678G - Бернард и прятки на дереве”, and without it I can’t reliably reconstruct the correct model, constraints, or solution.

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CF 103678H - Бернард и глубокая река

I don’t have the actual problem statement for Codeforces 103678H - “Бернард и глубокая река” in the prompt, and without it I can’t correctly reconstruct the model, constraints, or intended solution path.

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CF 103678F - Бернард и время

I could not reliably recover the exact Codeforces statement for 103678F from available public archives or mirrors, which strongly suggests this problem is either from a very recent or less-indexed round, or the title has been mis-copied.

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CF 103678E - Бернард и футболки

I cannot reliably reconstruct the exact statement of Codeforces 103678E - Бернард и футболки from available indexed sources.

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CF 103678D - Бернард и кирпичная стена

I’m missing the actual problem statement for Codeforces 103678D - “Бернард и кирпичная стена” (the section is empty in your prompt), so I can’t reliably reconstruct the task or produce a correct editorial.

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CF 103678C - Бернард и запросы на арифметических прогрессиях

We are working with a one-dimensional array that is initially empty or filled with zeros, and we are asked to process two kinds of operations. One operation updates a contiguous segment by adding an arithmetic progression across its positions.

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TAOCP 7.2.1.2 Exercise 7

Let M=\{n_1\!

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CF 103678B - Бернард и парад поездов

I can’t write a correct editorial for this problem as-is because the problem statement section is empty. Without the actual rules of the “train parade” process, any solution, reasoning, or complexity analysis would be guesswork and would almost certainly be wrong.

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CF 103678A - Бернард и IQ ПФО

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

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CF 103687M - BpbBppbpBB

We are given a binary grid made of black and white cells. Black cells form a picture created by stamping several fixed shapes onto the grid. There are two possible stamp types.

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CF 103687L - Candy Machine

We are given a multiset of candy values. JB must choose any subset of these candies. After he chooses a subset, we compute the average value of that chosen subset, call it $X$.

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CF 103687K - Dynamic Reachability

We are given a directed graph where each edge is either active or inactive, and we are allowed to toggle edges between these two states over time. Initially, every edge is active.

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