I personally thought that problems were a little tricky and relied more on algebraic thinking than some other previous problems. That being said they were still relatively easy, although I found last large to be difficult. - Lev.
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:34 AM, kirk79 <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been in at least the last 3 codejams, and have never had any > difficulty in the qualification round. Today I sat down to qualify > and it was a real challenge! > > Not only were the problems tricky enough that I failed on the small > input a few times before succeeding (on all three problems), but the > large input contained such a huge jump in data size that my algorithm > which would comfortable solve small input in 100ms couldn't solve > large input in 8 minutes! > > I'm sure that it's not just me - this years qualification problems > were much more difficult than in previous years. > > -- > 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]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > -- 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.
