I guess the intention is that the small input can be used to test the solution (that's why you can submit multiple times), but the large input's limited one-time solution requires you to first estimate the efficiency of your algorithm, and decide if it is fast enough to solve the large input. I think the ability to estimate how fast your algorithm is is also part of the contest.
For some problems, I generated worst case input myself and see if my algorithm can solve that. Sometimes the large input is far from the worst case, though. On Sep 14, 12:42 am, Blub <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I really like this contest, well done Google! Unfortunately I did > not make enough points to advance to round 2. > > What is the idea behind not being allowed to resubmit the large > problems, once the eight minutes are over? Is it to reject code > that runs for a longer time or to prevent in-depth (human) > analysis of the input files? I submitted a wrong solution for the > large problem of Round 1C 'All your Bases', and lost those 15 > points for sure. Having the correct solution later on did not > help. (The final code I submitted for the small problem solves the > large problem as well). > > Anyway, I was just stupid and probably too nervous. I mistakenly > though I solved the small problem correctly, when I still had a > small bug. Maybe it would be a good idea to issue a warning, when > you try to solve a large problem without successfully solving the > corresponding small problem first. > > Cheers, -Blub --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
