It's because of this that Python is useful for these types of problems as it takes care of these problems for you.
It might make for a slightly slower program, but with the right algorithm it's fast enough. Now, if only I could write the programs faster I might have a chance with round 1C :-) Abizer. On 22 May 2010 20:50, Ralph Furmaniak <[email protected]> wrote: > Another good lesson to take from this is to always look at your output > before submitting, for a basic sanity-check. When I ran my program on > the large input and saw the negative numbers, I realised that I had to > change my ints to long longs before submitting :-) > > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:41 PM, bokertov <[email protected]> wrote: > > I used "int" and it worked for the small case. But my output for the > > large case was incorrect. Then I found out if I replace "int" by "long > > long", then it's correct! I lost 30 points because of this stupid > > mistake, man! > > > > The reason is that 10^5*10^5 = 10^10, which is bigger than the upper > > bound ~ 2*10^9 of int. > > > > I'll surely learn this lesson, and will avoid it in the future. > > > > -- > > 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]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > -- Abizer -- 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.
