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January 2022 - Solution

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January 2022 Challenge


For n=7, d=5 the maximum score is 3051 and the minimum is 446.

A pair of circles giving those values is [4, 5, 2, 1, 7, 3, 9] ,[1, 0, 6, 2, 8, 5, 4]


For n=8, d=6 the maximum score is 23209 and the minimum is 8265.

A pair of circles giving those values is [0, 1, 4, 8, 2, 5, 9, 6], [1,8,2,3,4,6,7,9]