Editorial for LCC '23 Contest 1 J3 - Candy Counting
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Each candy type can be stored as a separate entry in a HashMap (Dictionary for python), with the name of the candy being the key, and the value being the number of the candy that Jayden got. After finishing populating the HashMap, one can simply loop through the HashMap and perform a modulo operation on each candy to obtain the remainder when divided with . The answer is the sum of each candy's count after such an operation.
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