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> The implication being: the statements and solutions to these problems were not available when the Github training set was collected.

But similar ones were, because the amount of code puzzles suitable for such contests is finite. There are differences, but when you have seen a few string-compare problems, you have a pretty good grasp of what they look like, what common paths to solutions are, etc.




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