That is considered fair. see the following extract from Contest Analysis of round 1A-2009
If you think your implementation is still not fast enough. Then run your program while you are solving other problems. There are only 502 possible input cases. Solve all of them, produce the list of answers, and then start the submission process; just don't forget you also need to submit the slow program that produced the list. This is why we had a special note at the bottom of the problem statement. -- 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.
