Sorry for the spam, but my previous post sounds completely different as I intended and could be misleading. "So now rushing trough the smalls is necessarily the best strategy" should be "So now rushing trough the smalls *isn't* necessarily the best strategy"
Carlos Guía On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Carlos Guia <[email protected]> wrote: > TripleM is right, but your confusion is understandable. Last year both > formats were used, I don't remember exactly how and why it changed, but I'm > almost sure Round 1 used only the small inputs for time penalty and the > strategy you mention was applied. But it was then settled to be as TripleM > mentioned, and I guess this won't change anymore. So now rushing trough the > smalls is necessarily the best strategy, well if you think you can solve the > large one with a little more thinking. > Carlos Guía > > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:52 AM, TripleM <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Quoting from the rules: >> >> Penalty Time = Submission time of the last input you correctly solve >> (time is measured from start of contest) + four minutes for each >> incorrect small submission (only for small inputs you eventually >> solve) >> >> In particular, the first part isn't the time you solved the last small >> input; it's the time you last solved anything. If you're expecting to >> solve a large input, it makes no difference whether you've rushed >> through all the small inputs or not. >> >> You have to upload the problem code at the same time you submit your >> solution. Comments are completely meaningless in contests like this, >> all you're doing is disadvantaging yourself :P >> >> On Aug 26, 3:20 pm, Ken Corbin <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello everyone, >> > >> >> > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
