Plag check till Round 1030 is done, still no rollback till now. Why?
Plag check till Round 1030 is done, still no rollback till now. Why?
For some people, math solutions don't just come naturally by "intuition"; you have to consider this when setting a problem set, this nature varies from country to country.
As we know, Codeforces has a rule regarding third-party code, which states that if you copy code from a public source available before the contest, it is not considered cheating. However, here's the issue: Codeforces first checks for code similarity between submissions. If a significant portion of the code matches across multiple accounts (typically 70% or more), Codeforces automatically flags the other submissions, except for the first one, as plagiarism.
So, what's the point of the third-party code rule?
Here is a blog related to this kind of issue, though cf didn't rejudge his solution.