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Chef and squares

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Chef has finished his freshman year in college. As a present, his parents gave him a new problem to solve: Chef has to fill a K x K square grid of integers in a certain way. Let us say that such a grid is valid if: - Each cell contains an integer from 1 and K (inclusive). - No integer appears twice in the same row or the same column. Let F(K) be maximum possible distance between the center of

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