Problem 1674. How many jokers?

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Ned Gulley on 24 Jun 2013

Hi Amitava:

Could you provide an example in your problem statement? Also, as Evan says below, you should have more than one test case or it becomes a trivial matter to hard-code a particular answer.

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Evan on 22 Jun 2013

Probably should add a couple more test cases so that silly people like me don't submit answers like this. ;)

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