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K-th Highest Score

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There were n coders from Finland and n coders from Sweden in a programming contest. It turned out that after the contest, each coder had a distinct score. Your task is to find the k-th highest score in the contest. To do this, you can ask questions: you can choose a country (Finland or Sweden) and an integer i and you will be told the i-th highest score for the chosen country. Interaction This

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solution.cppC++17

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