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The Lost & Found Receipt

A small C ticket dispenser for objects whose alleged absence is mostly a human administrative event. It prints one fixed local receipt at a time.

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Run locally

gcc -std=c11 -Wall -Wextra -Werror -pedantic lost_found.c -o lost_found
./lost_found -n 3

A C11 compiler; no network or file reads/writes at runtime. The compiled executable is deliberately excluded.

Verified sample

+--------------------------------------------------------+
| LOST & FOUND / RECEIPT FOR AN ABSENCE                 |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| Ticket: 03                                              |
| Object: The other glove's biography                     |
| Last seen: between the radiator and its alibi           |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| Clerk's note: Read before pairing.                     |
| Status: NOT MISSING TO ITSELF                            |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
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