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by phendrenad2 1592 days ago
No, the article doesn't reveal anything about where this data comes from, other than the vague "user input vs database" which is useless.

So their problem is real-world, and has a solution. We're supposed to solve the problem without the benefit of the context that they have, which makes it a contrived academic problem, which was my point.