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why is it a bad idea?
By theSkeleton, history, 4 months ago, In English

hello everyone :) recently I was thinking about the idea of adding a working solution to question to help better understand the question statement, obviously I'm not talking about just witing the solution in the problem statement, what I'm talking about is like a simple executable that will output the right output if givven the right input regarding the problem now here is my question, I would assume I'm not the first person to come up with such idea, so what I ask is, what is the flaw with it? the reason something like this hasn't been implemented?

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People can disassemble the executable and submit inline asm as the solution, even without source code

Even you just add something like custom test, having the right solution for a non-trivial input can greatly weaken a problem

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    Submitting obfuscated or unreadable source code is against the official rule of Codeforces. Such solutions may be regarded as cheating.

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If its a hard problem with a pattern, instead of solving the problem, people would spam inputs to figure out the pattern. And also this would basically ruin all "troll" problems.

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i think it's already bad enough that we have lot of people guessing random greedy solutions and getting AC on div2 B and C. This would only make the problem worse lol.

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