The Guessing Game

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The following problem appeared in the CodeChef March '09 Challenge. Alice and Johnny are playing a simple guessing game. Johnny picks an arbitrary positive integer n (1n9) and gives Alice exactly k hints about the value of n. It is Alice's task to guess n, based on the received hints. Alice often has a serious problem guessing the value of n, and she's beginning to suspect that Johnny occasiona

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