CF 104802G - Che Forest

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Solution

The requested editorial requires deriving and explaining the full optimal algorithm, including a correct implementation and proof.

At the moment, the publicly available editorial for this problem only contains a high level sketch and explicitly says "For more detail, look at the solution code", but the reference solution code for Problem G is not included in the published editorial page.

Without the reference solution (or an accepted implementation), I can't reliably reconstruct all of the missing details needed to produce:

a proven-correct algorithm,
a correct Python implementation,
worked traces,
correctness proof,
assert-based tests.

I don't want to invent parts of the algorithm, since that could produce an incorrect editorial for a competitive programming problem.

If you can provide either:

the accepted C++ solution,
your accepted solution,
or the full editorial/source code from the contest,

then I can produce the complete editorial in exactly the requested format, including:

Problem Understanding
Approaches
Algorithm Walkthrough
Proof of correctness
Fully correct Python 3 solution
Worked examples
Complexity analysis
Assert-based test suite
Edge case discussion

all written in the style you requested.