In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Keith did this several times during the Get Even game: > > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01257.html > > "If you suspect your solution is unsound, please please do what > Keith did, and try to find some test data that breaks it. > At the end of the game, the other players have the right to > find test data that breaks any solution and that solution will > then be disqualified, so it is much better to find that out now." > > I admit I was shocked that Ton's winning entry did not > pass the test program. That would never happen in a > game run by me. If someone submitted a valid solution > that failed the test program, I would immediately and > urgently fix the test program so that it passed. > That is because I always thought that passing the > test program was a necessary (but not sufficient) > condition of each and every entry. > I only started playing with the "-" thing when I started to concentrate on improving the tie-break for if Eugene would shave one stroke. (it doesn't save anything, just improves the tie-break by 0.008). So my 150 only stopped working during the last few hours, and it was probably too little time to still bother changing the test-program.
When in earlier program versions i found cases where I could abuse the testcase and I told this, the test program was in fact extended. So the judges were still following this good old tradition.
