Problem 583. Implement a counter

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Rafael S.T. Vieira on 13 Aug 2020

Just fixed the code from another player, which had an interesting solution.

milesingle on 1 Oct 2022

I'm still so confused. I tried using 2 functions, but how would you tell them to start at zero in the first loop?

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Aurelien Queffurust on 16 Apr 2012

solution which does not use any nested function ;)

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