Yeah, I realized that shortly after I made my initial post, and have implemented a working program for practice already. I am still interested in LP though...
On Sep 13, 9:35 pm, tbischel <[email protected]> wrote: > Adding LP to your personal library is a good idea, but ultimately not > needed here. The motion of the center of mass for the swarm is > linear, because all the fireflies don't change direction or speed. So > the problem comes down to finding the closest point on the line > showing the motion of the swarm to the orgin. This is just a dot- > product trick, solving for time using the average direction dotted > with the position (or a vector from the orgin to the position), which > should be zero. > --Tyler > > On Sep 13, 12:46 pm, Nathaniel Tucker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I focused on the other problems this round, because I have never > > implemented a linear program before. Do you know of a good source to > > learn about coding learning programming algorithms? I figure I should > > add LP to my library. > > > Good luck with future endeavors! > > > On Sep 13, 4:39 am, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Although I've solved the problem mathematically correct, some of the > > > values were in this format: 5.6843418860808015E-14 and it seems the > > > verifier didn't recognize it... I was so close :) but anyway, I gained > > > a lot of experience from this contest, and I will surely participate > > > next time. Great job Google ! and congrats to everyone who qualified > > > in Round 2 ! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
