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Simulate a daily borrowing process where each new loan must cover the previous day's outstanding debt.
Maximize consecutive survival days by selecting an optimal sequence of one-time-use lenders.
The outstanding debt is non-decreasing because each lender's payback is at least their lend amount.
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Greedy strategy formulation and optimality reasoning
Array sorting and single-pass iteration
Simulation state tracking under constraints
Recognizing monotonic properties in sequential decision problems
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lend =
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