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Problems > Order of Elimination > Editorial

Order of Elimination — Solution & Editorial

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Direct simulation with a list and a moving index modulo the shrinking size (an order-statistics tree does it in O(N log N) at larger scales).

Complexity: O(N2) worst case — fine at N ≤ 3000