already stated in description, so it's clear enough

Assumptions:
0^0 = 1
0^1 = 0

here is the data in the C# test suite:

  new object[]
  {
    false,
    new int[][]
    {
      new int[] {1, 2, 6, 3, 4, 7, 5, 9, 8}, 
      new int[] {7, 3, 5, 8, 1, 9, 6, 4, 2}, 
      new int[] {1, 9, 4, 2, 6, 5, 8, 7, 3}, 
      new int[] {3, 1, 7, 5, 8, 4, 2, 6, 9}, 
      new int[] {6, 5, 9, 1, 7, 2, 4, 3, 8}, 
      new int[] {4, 8, 2, 9, 3, 6, 7, 1, 5}, 
      new int[] {9, 4, 8, 7, 5, 1, 3, 2, 6}, 
      new int[] {5, 6, 1, 4, 2, 3, 9, 8, 7}, 
      new int[] {2, 7, 3, 6, 9, 8, 1, 5, 4}, 
    },
  },

This will definitely expect false and not true. So I don't know what you did, but you did it wrong for sure. And note that when I return false directly in C#, that test is passing perfectly fine.

Why would 0^1 be equal to 1?

Not an issue

Maximum return value range is 24*3600*1000 which is well inside int range.

I made it clearer now I believe. I also included an image.

If this is no longer an issue could you mark as solved please? Thank you.

The instruction is, "farthest fromt the middle" which is pretty clear. And your code of [1][4] would be incorrect if there each team would have more or less positions

I agree with curious. I don't see the need to prevent loops.

What? Why should it prevent infinite loops? I don't see a need for it :/

Changed code to two arguments

I suspect the numbers weren't 873, 158, and 189, but 8073, 1058, and 1409. Maybe your program doesn't handle 0 properly?

I m gonna Add a test case fOr it.