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Balancing Inversions

USACO · 2019 · US Open · gold-3

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Published input5 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1modelAlgorithm ideaApply the task rule to this published instance, preserving the relationships defined by the statement.task resultExpected output1
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