Problem 44082. Recycled Numbers (CodeJam Qualification Round 2012)

Created by Jean-Marie Sainthillier

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Rafael S.T. Vieira on 22 Jul 2020

A good opportunity to implement a hashtable: lots of collisions without it.

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yurenchu on 11 Mar 2017

A re-post of Solution 1137054, because that one doesn't appear in the list of solutions, for some reason (I'm not sure why).

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