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Solution skipped due code available on GFG
By noozy, history, 2 years ago, In English

Today I got this

Attention! Your solution 170289556 for the problem 1722G significantly coincides with solutions Jeopardy_007/170181586, kshitijsabale/170235981, pravin_as/170236185, sksusha8853/170244580, daijoub_dattebayo/170253614, Ag.akhand29Dec/170260220, vipin/170268963, coomlhamdle/170268986, no-one/170270439, pritish_001/170280715, vamshikrishna7697/170283391, saranshgoel_20/170287297, O_QufaD/170287888, noozy/170289556, noob5367/170290799, anurag78_20/170293266, CodeR_SaaD/170294427, singham_20/170294546, anupam_singh20/170295384, blablablacksheep/170295836, abhirai24/170297702, xorhero_02/170299463. Such a coincidence is a clear rules violation. Note that unintentional leakage is also a violation. For example, do not use ideone.com with the default settings (public access to your code). If you have conclusive evidence that a coincidence has occurred due to the use of a common source published before the competition, write a comment to post about the round with all the details. More information can be found at http://codeforces.net/blog/entry/8790. Such violation of the rules may be the reason for blocking your account or other penalties. In case of repeated violations, your account may be blocked.

I don't know these many guys why my solution to the problem G coincides as the code was available on Geekforgeeks, I hereby confirm that I did not use ideone.com with the default settings. I just take some part of this public article's code n distinct numbers having XOR zero

This code was available public before contest @MikeMirzayanov please look into this, I have conclusive evidence that a coincidence has occurred due to the use of a common source published before the competition. I've also attached some screenshots in support of this.

If we take k=0 here then our answer can be calculated that's what I did, Please help.

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In 170289556 you can see similarity of my code with this public code GFG Code

please don't skip my submissions as the other people might also took code from this public post on GFG @MikeMirzayanov please look into it

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    Most of online dictionaries define the word Plagiarize as something like "to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source".

    I don't see any comment giving credit to GFG in your 170289556 submission. This is plagiarism.

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      Codeforces allows to use any code that "was written and published/distributed before the start of the round" and doesn't ask to provide a source. This is legal by codeforces rules.

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        Please read the codeforces rules, which say that "Any usage of third-party code should not violate the right holder’s license or copyright". Then check the geeksforgeeks copyright information and also an explanation from one of their moderators.

        Even if not all rules are actively enforced, violating them is not nice. Did you believe that there was a loophole in the codeforces rules that made plagiarism legal? Or do you actually think that it's okay to plagiarize third-party code?

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