Editorial for I Hate Ready to Program P3 - Test Case Limit Exceeded
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Submitting an official solution before solving the problem yourself is a bannable offence.
Submitting an official solution before solving the problem yourself is a bannable offence.
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The trick to this question is to realize that the contents of the strings don't matter at all, and all that matters is the length of the strings.
Also, to solve this problem, it is necessary to always pick the strings with the shortest lengths. The proof of this greedy algorithm is left as an exercise to the reader.
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