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Incorrect TLE submissions should be allowed to give WA #48

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Currently, if we have a TLE submission, verifyproblem expects that it should always TLE or AC (but TLE on at least one input). It would be natural and nice if verifyproblem allowed a TLE submission to give WA on some inputs, as long as it gives TLE on at least one input.

The intent here is that if we wish to accept an $O(n^2)$ solution but $O(n^3)$ should TLE, then we could make a simple program which just reads the input, ignores the problem, and loops n^3 times. However, this will give the WA error described above.

@austrin points out (via email) that as we move to setting time limits by running submissions through Kattis judge rather than within the problemtools itself, this issue becomes trickier to deal with.

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