Codeforces Contest 981 (Div 3)

Hey MikeMirzayanov, FBI, Vladosiya I got this message 4 hours ago.

Attention! Your solution 287717617 for the problem 2033C significantly coincides with solutions VIDYA__SAGAR/287717617, joindeepakdev1/287740663. 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.me/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 have written my code 287717617 completely by my own knowledge and intution which somehow matched with someone's code 287740663. I haven't used any online IDE or compiler, nor did I copied or shared my solution to any online platform, I have used my offline VS CodeEditor for Code writting and testing. I'd like to clarify that I do not know the other user involved, either in real life or on Codeforces. This similarity in code is purely coincidental. My approach to solve this question using two pointer is very common approach, Even in tutorial solution the logic was same, if you would have used while loop instead of for loop, your code might have matched with my code, This doesn't mean I got the access to tutorial beforehand. In same contest the my solution for Problem 2033A - Sakurako and Kosuke is this code 287683272 whose logic is only whether n is odd or even, due to which my code might have matched with approximately 10k users. This doesn't mean all 10k users have cheated or copied the code from each other. I have solved till E question in this contest which proves my ability that I haven't cheated the code of C question, also the time taken by me to solve that C question was very less, which again insures that I haven't got that code from anyone else.

I kindly request the Codeforces team to review this case. I’m open to providing further details about my approach to help clear up any misunderstandings. Thank you for your attention to this matter.