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This algorithm is allowed to run for 4.5 billion years, and it has produced, through random iteration, a very good CMS.
The CMS works great most of the time, but there's a bug which rarely happens, which crashes the whole system.
This bug has been correlated with lines 4632486 and 434876365 in module132413.pl being executed, but it is not exactly clear how.
Your job is to figure out what these lines of code do, and how they cause the bug. Here they are, and you can download the whole source on github:
module132413.pl:4632486: $a4918732 = $b13rqw9 && chomp $dfadfaadf4r;
module132413.pl:434876365: print;
Good luck with the debugging!
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This algorithm is allowed to run for 4.5 billion years, and it has produced, through random iteration, a very good CMS.
The CMS works great most of the time, but there's a bug which rarely happens, which crashes the whole system.
This bug has been correlated with lines 4632486 and 434876365 in module132413.pl being executed, but it is not exactly clear how.
Your job is to figure out what these lines of code do, and how they cause the bug. Here they are, and you can download the whole source on github:
module132413.pl:4632486: $a4918732 = $b13rqw9 && chomp $dfadfaadf4r;
module132413.pl:434876365: print;
Good luck with the debugging!