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On 3/18/2025 11:07 PM, Tim Rentsch wrote:


> Have you thought about how large the value of 'n' can
> become inside the while() loop?

I was too smug in my first reply.  After Keith pointed out I needed to 
read from stdin, I submitted the code again and it passed some tests but 
  failed with 'OUTPUT LIMIT EXCEEDED' when n = 159487.

Updating int to long worked, and now I'm bona fide!

So thanks.