Problem 2773. Find the distance between runs

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Mattias on 3 Jan 2015

Nice challenging problem! The fun thing is that all solutions look very different and are also very hard to understand

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Jason Nicholson on 8 Jan 2016

This solution cheats. I wish you wouldn't pollute the solutions.

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