You can see how the output is formatted for the sample input provided below the problem description and make sure your program produces identical output in terms of formatting. If it doesn't match, the amount of output for the sample data is usually just a few cases so typos or missing line breaks should be apparent, and they usually cover the various types of output. It may seem to make it more convenient to have multiple output formatting accepted, but I don't see it as a serious roadblock in program debugging. That being said I think it is more clear to have a single expected output format, if there were multiple accepted formats I feel like the different variations would add unnecessary complexity to the problem description. At most I would support having the code jam grader spit out a comment if the output format of the file submitted doesn't match the expected output format (not sure if it does this already).
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