s often lacking in detail or just restates the problem description ("I would recursively try all the subsequences to find the longest"). Such answers will earn little, if any, credit. Sufficiently detailed pseudocode (e.g. "scan the next token from input, if it the first char is a digit, then convert to an integer") would have been easier and more concise to write in C++ and will earn more points that way.</li>
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