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Published code solutions fail on edge cases

Published C++, Java, and Python solutions time out, overflow, or return the wrong format on edge-case inputs.

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7 public reports · first reported 11 June 2021 · last reported 26 July 2026

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What's going wrong

Readers of this long-running algorithm guide report that several published solutions break in situations the examples never test.

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