On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, [email protected] wrote: > > . A Working program is a BF > > program solves the problem for the (possible unannounced) > > *possibly. If you do announce the test cases, it would be a bit weird for a > program that clearly worked only for the test cases to be considered Working, > but I guess you'd only do that for finite/fixed-input problems?
Hopefully I'll choose a range of tests that show well enough that the program works generally and covers edge cases. (Keeping it private is mainly in the good old fashioned spirit of seeing if the contestants get the edge cases right). If I privately tell someone that a program breaks, I probably have to reveal something of test/edge cases... hopefully not enough to spoil things, though. > > 4. For the purpose of this contest, "Immediately" means within 4 days. > > I thought I'd heard it all when "as soon as possible" was 7 days. ;p Heh. Maybe 'promptly' is a better choice... > > 6. The first person to submit a working solution of any length (the > > Leader) receives 10 points > > Ack, this rewards whoever is first to copy and paste the Par solution into a > reply. The actual par solution won't be revealed until the end; only the length of it will be revealed. (btw, the main purpose of the par solution is to get me to test the problem first; IIRC, the last game suffered a bit as some v. hard problems were put forward so there weren't a lot of good entries). > > a. A person's Final Shot is the single, shortest-length WORKING > > program that e submitted during the Shootout period. > Is the Leader's initial submission "during the Shootout period"? I didn't consider it to be, though I guess it might as well be, so e doesn't have to copy and paste the same answer again to get entered for eir 5 points (and since e can always submit a shorter one later). -G.
