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By notSpad2e, history, 5 days ago, In English

So I was solving problem D from the latest contest when I encounter a bizarre behavior. In this 306416672 the output to the second testcase is clearly incorrect.

The jury's answer is 0 2 4 2

My code's output is 0 2 4 4

Well, my code output the exact same thing as the jury in on my pc. Maybe an uninitialized variable?? No worries, it's the first testcase, I can just debug using the jury's output. In this 306417865 I print some additional variables to debug my code. The output is the line where there is only 1 integer, otherwise that line is a debug.

This time the answers came out to be

8 11
0 // First number
13 11
6 4
2 5
2 // Second number
27 11
4 // Third number
15 11
4 4
0 5
2 // Fourth number

It's the correct answer, but I changed nothing except the debug line. Then I removed the debug line and the answers became wrong again. At this point I don't even know what to do so I add some random cout << " "; to the code in this 306419133. And, amazingly, it worked. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??????

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