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To authors who make shit examples
By ShitExamplesOnCodeforces, 6 years ago, In English

I find there are authors who want to include shit numbers on examples. Let's see some examples of such examples.

They were proud enough to announce their names in the editorial, so I will call them explicitly.

1392A - Omkar and Password from gotexans and qlf9

2
4
2 1 3 1
2
420 420

1392B - Omkar and Infinity Clock from gotexans

3
2 1
-199 192
5 19
5 -1 4 2 0
1 2
69

Same author, very suscpicious.

265918 Ari Kuroni gamegame hugopm are writers of Codeforces Round #616. They were so proud to make a whole contest themed with HENTAI and extensively wrote about it in the editorial, so I find a need to call their names.

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I mean, what's the point of including such examples? Do you feel happy when people are forced to look and type such numbers in order to test their submissions?

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nice

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What's wrong with 69 ? Such an interesting number. It stays the same even if you rotate it!

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I'm sure using foul language like "shit" in blog titles and in handle is more likely to be disturbing and annoying, compared to numbers. Also, technically you don't need to look at the samples, we have tried our greatest effort to make sure that every contestant can understand the problem just by the problem statement.

By the way, do you want some advice on improving at Competitive Programming?

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    Thanks for your answer. But still you don't answer my question. What's the point of including such examples?

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      So you don't want samples?

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        I obviously want more samples.

        I'm quite surprised that in a website that is open for everyone regardless of their age, nationality, race or anything you guys proudly advertised hentai. Personally I didn't know what hentai is when I was reading the editorial, and it was a disgusting experience to search about it, thanks a lot.

        I imagine you guys laughing and giggling while adding such samples in statements and writing about them in editorials. What's the point of doing that?

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          You have a point there, so I will reply with what I have.

          To my defense:

          1. I tried to be as subtle as I can. I never mentioned it directly, and people who get it get it.

          2. The samples were actually helpful for some contestants, in the sense they helped the contestants discover edge cases.

          To your defense, it is my fault for either:

          1. Not having a disclaimer. It's true that there are curious people who don't know, so a disclaimer that the content might be offensive, in hindsight, is useful.

          2. Including the theme at all. For this I would disagree, the joke is (intended) to be an inside one, and why can't Codeforces be subtly funny?

          I guess I should have made the joke a relatively harmless one, and not including a disclaimer to warn off a body of people is my fault. However, I stand my take that the samples are good and not shit.

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            You're just saying this because you have a hentai addiction smh

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I am extremely honored to be mentioned in such an important blog post.

Anyways, you might notice there's a copy button on the top right corner of the input box. If numbers make you angry you can use that to test without having to look at the numbers ;)

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    Thanks for your answer. But still you don't answer my question. What's the point of including such examples?

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      I don't understand the question. The point of including any examples is to showcase the input and output format, possibly help with understanding what the problem asks, and possibly catching some mistakes contestants can make. As long as the examples achieve those goals I don't see why it would be better to have "regular numbers" over "meme numbers".

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This is a nice opportunity to plug Jasperr's amazing work (https://mirror.codeforces.com/blog/entry/60073 -- Competitive Companion). Since installing it, I haven't had to look at and type a sample in almost 489 days.

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    Thanks for mentioning and using my extension! I'm honored to have seen my hobby project go from 1 to 4000+ users in the past 3 years, even some nutellas are using it nowadays.

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What a shitty blog! Wasted my 2 minutes, smh.

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Hey, I understand that you want to make a point, but don't you think tagging them is unnecessary?

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