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> It's quite clear the small sample data was chosen intentionally to not cover them.

That is very common in AOC, the edge cases are often not called out.

Although the results vary a lot, sometimes the edge cases matter, sometimes they only matter for some data sets (so you can have a solve for your dataset but it fails for others), and sometimes the edge cases don’t matter at all, so you might spend a while unnecessarily considering and handling them all.

The edge cases are fine tho, it’s a normal thing which happens. The not fun ones are when ordering comes into play to resolve ambiguities and is not called out, it’s quite rare but when it happens it’s infuriating because it’s very hard to debug as you don’t really have a debugging basis.




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