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You are accumulating larger values of s in intenta as you try out
the different possibilities. I think your mistake is in assuming that
the smallest value for bottle movements is total - the largest value.

Just accumulate on the smallest value instead and forget the
subtraction from total idea.

I just ended up rewriting my solutions in C instead of Java. Makes
life much easier in a lot of ways given the wieird Java restrictions.

Seems my solutions were correct and there was something wrong
with Java. All is well except for the damnably high number of rejected
submissions.

There goes my ...

This is really my first ever post and my first submissions to the
contest, so I would appreciate some pointers.

The rules on Java are really wierd, I hate having to change my
code and fold in the wierd subroutines I am importing from a util
class I keep around.

It makes me really think about doing ...

I am at a loss as to why my programs that I submitted give WA. I hope its nothing to do with the wierd Java restrictions. Shame that the system cannot tell me what the wrong and right input is !!!!

Here is the code for 100:
[java]
import java.io.IOException;

class Main {

static int countDigits ...