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Hi Chris
On the problem page, it is 3 second. 
 
> What is the time limit? I just tried it (Python 2.6 under Windows) and
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> it finished in a humanly-immeasurable amount of time. Are you sure
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> that STDIN (eg raw_input()) is where your test data is coming from?

Yes, on SPOJ we read data from STDIN. 

Regards 
Mukesh Tiwari

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