Hello everyone, I've found the description on how penalty times are computed to be somewhat confusing. After studying the scoring results from last year, I think I have it worked out, but wanted to see if this matches what everyone else knows.
It appears that the base penalty time is the time elapsed from the official start of the contest until you submit the answers to all of the small dataset problems. Add 4 minutes for each resubmitted small dataset answer. You have until the end of the allotted contest time to submit answers to the large dataset problems, those do not appear to count against your base penalty time. Consequently, the top programmers appear to be writing something quick and dirty to solve the small dataset problems, then go back and solve all of the large dataset problems. I'm also wondering how long we have to upload the problem code used to solve the problem. Largely because I am rather appalled at the quality of the code I find myself writing under extreme time pressure. Would be nice to go back and add some decent comments before actually uploading it. Thanks a bunch, -Ken --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
