Can anyone suggest an approach for this question(HASHRAD)

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@vijju123 can you please provide an editorial for this problem

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HASHRAD CODECHEF

I did not realize no one provided any easily searchable solution to this problem over discuss, so I will take liberty to give the outline. The first subtask is clear - you can try all the 26^N strings and check which one satisfies the criterias The second subtask gives first non-significant hint to solve the problem. It says that input is always the largest string for that particular hash value. Say my hash value is 27 for length 2, then the string will be ``zc" (25+2). If my hash value is…

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Thank you so much