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Little Elephant and Balloons

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The Little Elephant from the Zoo of Lviv is going to the Birthday Party of the Big Hippo tomorrow. Now he wants to prepare a gift for the Big Hippo. He has N balloons, numbered from 1 to N. The i-th balloon has the color Ci and it costs Pi dollars. The gift for the Big Hippo will be any subset (chosen randomly, possibly empty) of the balloons such that the number of different colors in that subse

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