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Wrong allocation size lead to runtime error #107

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P2.assign(L2_n, 0);
L2.assign(1<<L2_n, 0);
for (int i = 0; i <= L2_n; ++i) {
P2[i] = (1<<i); // to speed up 2^i
L2[(1<<i)] = i; // to speed up log_2(i)
}

In line 17 we assign P2 a size of L2_n, implying we have the range [0,L2_n) available. Then we iterate i through [0,L2_n] and assign P2[i]. This leads to a problem when i = L2_n. This is a really hard to catch bug, as C++ usually allocate more size than necessary, but this very mistake has got me a runtime error in problem https://www.codechef.com/problems/TALCA?tab=statement

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