Editorial for ECOO '21 P1 - Many Messages
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For 30% of the points, since Larry always sends his message after Theodore last checks his phone, we can simply output Who knows....
For the rest of the points, note that we only have to consider three relevant times. Let be the time when Larry starts his homework, and
be the interval. Let
be the time that Larry sent his message. We can simply check the
times
,
and
. If
is strictly greater than all of them, then we output
Who knows..., otherwise we output the earliest time.
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