Problem 44359. 5th Time's a Charm

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Andrew Newell on 1 Dec 2017

Strange - the test suites are not independent. I thought they normally were.

Sushovan Basu on 8 Dec 2017

Yes Andrew, they are not. I also had to struggle with the same, when only the first input data passed and rest failed.

Christian Torregrosa Koch on 14 Dec 2017

I can't get a way to solve this problem. Some hint?

Hans Kramer on 25 Apr 2018

Can't solve this either. Not even a clue on how to do it.

Nikolaos Nikolaou on 17 Feb 2020

Hint see documentation for presistent variables
PS : last test case is evil

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Lincoln Poon on 20 Jan 2021

Tricky problem;)

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mahesh kumar on 12 Dec 2020

new things..

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