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1Give yourself 5 minutes
2Answer out loud, not in your head
3Then compare with the answer below
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Stuck? Show a way to structure it+
- 01Binary search the candidate value x.
- 02Count numbers up to x divisible by a, b, or c.
- 03Use inclusion-exclusion with gcd-based LCMs.
- 04Find the first x whose count reaches n.
Reference answer
Then expect these follow-ups
Why is the count predicate monotone?
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