Problem 42901. Free-time Equation

Created by Jared Whaley

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goc3 on 26 Aug 2016

It seems to me that the fictitious person in the test suite sleeps way too much (half the day). Less sleeping would solve his free-time problem.

Jan Orwat on 30 Aug 2016

:-D

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