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By karthikmv14, history, 3 years ago, In English

I am really surprised to see my submissions to this contest got skipped. I got this message:

Your solution 156694985 for the problem 1676D significantly coincides with solutions Aparna-Sakshi/156689249, karthikmv14/156694985. Such a coincidence is a clear rules violation.

I really don't know the person girl_on_fire before and I strongly know that this is purely coincidental and I guess in python this matching can happen with more probability as the solution is simple.

My solution

Her solution

Another question is why she is rated for this contest and I got this message? If your system thinks I cheated, then it might mean that she leaked her solution unintentionally/intentionally. Anyway, my message is that I haven't copied from anywhere as this problem itself is quite simple.

I am worried about getting this warning without any mistake from my side. Kindly observe my past submissions I don't have any intention of cheating. Also in the message, they said to comment in the contest announcement blog post and I did that but no response from anyone.

Hope you understand my problem. Thanks.

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