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Is it considered cheating to use others Data structure implemention?
By Taha1506, history, 5 years ago, In English

Is it considered A cheating if I use another person's implemention for a data structure instead of designing one by myself?

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It depends on platform rules but usually you can use prewritten code if it is either written by you or was published on the internet with appropriate license (which allows you to use it) before the start of the contest. Obviously, you can't ask someone to implement a data structure for you during the contest.

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What about using someone else's library ? , it counts as open-source and prewritten

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    It's fine. Lots of people copy from KACTL for example.

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