AhmedEl-Gohary's blog

By AhmedEl-Gohary, history, 20 months ago, In English

I was sent a system message as follows: Attention! Your solution 170296922 for the problem 1722G significantly coincides with solutions Gaurav_Arora/170273818, om_arsa_2312/170279944, nihal_gupta/170293955, AhmedEl-Gohary/170296922. 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.com/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._

All I did was using this blog: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find-n-distinct-numbers-whose-bitwise-xor-is-equal-to-k/ Which is perfectly fine to use pre-written code as far as I am concered!! I adjusted my code accordingly to solve Div4G and didn't communicate with anyone in the round. Here is my code: https://codeforces.com/contest/1722/submission/170296922

I observed that getting an array that has an xor value of zero and sort it the value of xor of even indices would be equal the value of xor of odd indices.

This is my conclusive evidence that I didn't violate CodeForces rules as this blog was written before the contest and it is open source, so please @MikeMirzayanov help fix this issue, this was my highest rated round and this is a false accusation!!

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