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By cheaters_busted, history, 4 years ago, In English

It has not been long since one of the self boasted guys Karan's cheating was revealed at Codeforces. Looks like this time it one of his disciples who is following the same path. The guy who has been caught red handed is praveenojha33 who keeps boasting of his programming skills at public groups.

This time, I will present you two new cheaters of the community. One of them is praveenojha33 and the other is mamme_hunter

In yesterday's contest, praveenojha33 copied all the solutions from mamme_hunter. mamme_hunter cannot claim that the solutions were copied from ideone or from some other source, since both of them tend to know each other well, and have participated in team contests too. (Check praveenojha33's submission history to clarify).

The doubt came up to my mind when praveenojha33's code appeared clumsy on the first look. So I decided to have have a look at the structure of the code by auto-formatting it. When I did auto-format it, every solution identically matched with mamme_hunter's. The only differences were.

  • In Problem-B's submission, he shifts the bottom-part of the code to a function solve() and trims all the spaces to save it from the detector. Also he smartly changes the while statement's to for statement's. If there are if and else, he switches condition, like puts the else part first and if the next. Praveen's Cheat-code, Mamme's Real-Submission
  • In problem C, he uses the same trick, then this time he uses two explicit functions to break codes. You can re-arrange them to find that both of the codes are matching. Praveen's Cheat-code, Mamme's Real-Submission
  • In problem D, he did not even bother to make an explicit function, since the code was not that lengthy. hence he knew template will save him from the detection. He just changed variable names this time. Praveen's Cheat-code, Mamme's Real-Submission

I will request MikeMirzayanov to remove these two people from the ranklist, a strict action is really necessary.

P.S: I am from your college praveenojha33. I did not want the college to unnecessarily target me for defaming college's name. But then this was really necessary, to stop people from following cheating as the way to reach milestones. This post will again bring in a lot of fears to all people who have been following this practice, if not all many will stop. I want the community to stand up and take such measures, such that before sharing a code, a person thinks twice about the upcoming measures.

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