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By peasantbird, history, 5 months ago, In English

I got an email from Codeforces stating that my solution coincides with some other solutions for Round 916 (Div. 3). After checking those solutions, I realised they are quite similar, except with changed variables. I do not know these people at all and so, I really do not know how these people were able to get a hold of and copy my solution, or perhaps this might just be a coincidence since the problem is quite simple and the ways to code it are limited. My solution was about 30 minutes before any of those other submissions were entered, and the other submissions were submitted within 5-10 minutes of one another, so I hope that can show that I came up with my solution on my own and was not part of any group. I am attaching my solution and the others, please look into it! I don't want the contest to be unrated for me and more importantly I just feel that this is quite a bad experience being someone who is just starting out and trying to get into programming.

My submission — 237967879

Other submission 1 — 237999030

Other submission 2 — 238001247

Other submission 3 — 238006274

I hope that MikeMirzayanov or someone can look into these and help me out! Thank you!

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