Problem 960. Cell Source Index

Created by Nicholas Howe

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Nicholas Howe on 26 Sep 2012

This is a problem where there's probably a good built-in function, but I don't know it.

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Aurelien Queffurust on 8 Nov 2012

this will be hard to beat !

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