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Place the mines!

The following problem appeared in the CodeChef March '09 Challenge. The following a tie breaker problem. The best answer will receive one point. All other successful answers will be scored on a curve and receive a fraction of a point based on how close they come to the best answer. You are given a large square area with an edge length of 2n, subdivided into unit squares (fields). Some mines ha

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