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Earliest time a password becomes irrecoverable

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AmazonCodingLast asked Sep 2025

A password is attacked one character at a time: you get the order in which positions are replaced by '*', one per second. The password counts as irrecoverable once at least m of its substrings contain at least one '*'. Return the earliest second at which that happens. Count substrings with a star without listing them, and use binary search on time or update the count as each star lands.

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