Hacking Range XOR Hash with Gaussian Elimination

Revision en1, by Rezwan.Arefin01, 2017-06-13 22:07:49

In past few months, I solved 4-5 problems in live contests. Where the problem reduces to check if every number in a range occurs even number of times. I first mapped the values into arbitrary large random numbers and then used range XOR to determine if all them occurred even number of times.

After contest, I've heard that such solution using range XOR can be hacked using Gaussian Elimination. Can someone please explain me the process? I know Gaussian Elimination, but can't figure this out.

Tags gaussian elimination, hacking, range xor

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en3 English Rezwan.Arefin01 2017-06-13 22:19:25 16
en2 English Rezwan.Arefin01 2017-06-13 22:16:35 236 Tiny change: ' solution in $O(\log n)$ complexity?] ' -> ' solution not using MO's algo?] '
en1 English Rezwan.Arefin01 2017-06-13 22:07:49 551 Initial revision (published)