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THE CORRUPTED TRADING SEQUENCE
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| PROBLEM: THE CORRUPTED TRADING SEQUENCE | |
| CONTEXT: | |
| You are the Lead Developer for a High-Frequency Trading (HFT) platform. | |
| The system processes 1,000,000 transactions/second. Each transaction | |
| is logged with a unique, strictly increasing ID. | |
| THE INCIDENT: | |
| A hardware glitch caused exactly ONE transaction ID to be skipped. |