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Limited Overlap Stream

You are processing a stream of user IDs. To prevent bot activity, a valid 'session window' is defined as a contiguous subsegment where no single user ID appears more than M times. Find the length of the longest valid session window. Input Format: - The first line contains an integer M (the maximum frequency allowed for any ID). - The second line contains a space-separated sequence of user IDs (integers). Output Format: - A single integer representing the length of the longest valid window. Example: Input: 2 1 2 1 3 1 1 2 Output: 5 (Explanation: Window [1, 2, 1, 3, 1] is invalid because ID '1' appears 3 times. Window [2, 1, 3, 1, 1] is invalid. The longest valid window is [1, 2, 1, 3, 2] which is not possible here. Let's check [1, 2, 1, 3] which is length 4. Actually, [2, 1, 3, 1, 2] is length 5 and each ID appears <= 2 times.)

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