I actually used the first paragraph as a test case. If you copy&paste the first paragraph, it has exactly 400263727 occurrences of "welcome to code jam" as a substring, as mentioned on the second paragraph. I think that test was strong enough for any code.
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Paul Smith<[email protected]> wrote: > > Should this discussion really be happening in public? > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Ruturaj Dhekane<[email protected]> wrote: >> but cant my rank be considered, also my past performance at GCJ? >> Since I havent copied? >> >> this will be really heartbreaking! >> >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Andriy G. Tereshchenko <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Yes. I'm really sorry. >>> >>> http://code.google.com/codejam/rules.html >>> Collaborating With Other Participants >>> >>> You are not allowed to collaborate with other participants or with anyone >>> else, for that matter, during a contest. This includes discussing, sharing, >>> or posting the problem statements or solutions. Any contestant found >>> cheating or attempting to cheat will be disqualified. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Ruturaj Dhekane <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> nope >>>> he had taken my code just to pass..is there a problem? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Andriy G. Tereshchenko >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Ruturaj Dhekane, >>>>> >>>>> Are both accounts Geekru2 and navjot yours? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> TAG >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Ruturaj Dhekane <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I woke up early in morning, and saw welcome problem. >>>>>> I quickly wrote a recursive solution uploaded small set, wrote an >>>>>> optimized DP for large and left for college without uploading >>>>>> large..while >>>>>> cycling it struck me something is wrong! %1000! I came back later changed >>>>>> it, and uploaded. >>>>>> >>>>>> I was so tensed at night, that I forced myself to attempt other >>>>>> problems. Luckily welcome was correct, and others were just a point >>>>>> bonus. >>>>>> >>>>>> I heard later that many others in my college failed large due to their >>>>>> %1000. >>>>>> >>>>>> I still need to check on my B2, cause B1 went through easily, and B2 >>>>>> gave me some non ascii character!! :( god knows why.. >>>>>> >>>>>> anyway hope we dont make such errors in next rounds!! >>>>>> >>>>>> enjoy! and code! >>>>>> Regards >>>>>> Geekru2 >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:07 PM, ashish khurana >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hey ya right friends, even m having the same problem, I solved the >>>>>>> code mathematically, then implemented it, and m sure that my loops are >>>>>>> not >>>>>>> infinite, still they keep on running in case of large input files for >>>>>>> hours... :-( >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Bartholomew Furrow <[email protected]> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Bey >>>>>>>> Your algorithm sounds right, but there are lots of small ways in >>>>>>>> which it could be wrong. I'd suggest going to "View my submissions," >>>>>>>> downloading your input file and your output file, and then downloading >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> winner's code and running it on the input. Compare that output to your >>>>>>>> output, and you've found a case that exercises your bug... it's all >>>>>>>> debugging from there. >>>>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>>>> Bartholomew >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Bey <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hi >>>>>>>>> I noticed that there are a large number of people who go the small >>>>>>>>> input correct for prob C but not the large input. I was wondering >>>>>>>>> why >>>>>>>>> that might be. I am one of those people. I think I applied Dynamic >>>>>>>>> Programming, and it worked on the small input, but not the large >>>>>>>>> input. I still can't figure it out. Does anyone know why a lot of >>>>>>>>> people are in the same lot? Basically, I think I am counting the >>>>>>>>> number of ways so far of being in one of the 18 states, of having >>>>>>>>> observed 'w', 'we', 'wel' etc. And then I write out the number of >>>>>>>>> ways of being in the 18th state at the end. Why do I fail on large >>>>>>>>> values? I also mod everytime I add numbers. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> What is going on? Did you fail on large input too? Did you figure >>>>>>>>> out >>>>>>>>> why? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> [Geekru2] >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> -- >>>>> Andriy G. Tereshchenko >>>>> Odessa, Ukraine >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> [Geekru2] >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> Andriy G. Tereshchenko >>> Odessa, Ukraine >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> [Geekru2] >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Paul Smith > http://www.nomadicfun.co.uk > > [email protected] > > > > -- Piva --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
