--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's not that easy to compare. One thing to consider > is that there's just > one computer per team available (in my days, there > were even 4 people > in a team). But what is perhaps even more important, > those people are > _students_. Students typically don't have the > experience most people on > this list have. It makes a huge difference if there > are a few exercises > that ring a bell to you or not. > > Also, one doesn't have to create correct programs, > or efficient ones. > As long as they provide the correct results within > the time limits of > the tried test cases, your program counts. Luck > certainly isn't excluded. > I don't know this list very well. But I guessed that most people on this list have more industrial experience instead of academic, and questions of ACM programming contest appear to be very math oritented. I myself don't have any advantage compare to top students in math field, but this may not apply to majority here. > Does the URL give the test cases the actual > submissions were run against? > you mean http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/Finals/problems.pdf Yes, each has at least one test case. > > > > Abigail __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/
