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By Drom, history, 5 years ago, In English

Hi codeforces,

I'm trying to solve problem 372A ( Counting Kangaroos is Fun ), but i can't figure out what's wrong with my solution #50057680. What i am trying to do is sort the array and use two pointers to get the answer but i'm stuck on test case 6?

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Your asumation is wrong. For exemple take this test. 4 1 1 2 4

Your code gives 3 but the corect answer is 2; I will let you figure it out why.

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    Try to find another solution. If not, you can look at the tutorial. It's a easy and corect solution to this.

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    I think in the test case you gave the correct answer is indeed 3 ?

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      No, man. 4 takes 1 2 takes 1

      Total left=2

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        The first 4 from the example is the number of Kangaros. The array is 1 1 2 4