--- [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


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