Why Google decided to give prizes to the top 25 ? ;in GCJ 1 ; The top 100 got prizes This make the contest is less exciting for non very professional programmers I would appreciate if Google honor the top 100 in the coming contest
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 6:52 PM, carlosralv <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to take this out of my heart... > > I spent the whole 3rd round on one problem (C). I knew I had little > chance of going to the finals, but I wanted to solve one problem > completely, with a nice solution. I the very end, I thought I had an > answer, but with just one minute to submit I could not even do a > sanity check. My solution was wrong. I was unable to send it int time, > anyway. > > What really annoys me is that I ended up as the last contestant in the > rank... > > Just to see if I was close enough: > > I tried to find the final positions of the vendors based on their > initial positions, trying to group them in sets were they could come > in contact. I think that the final positions of a set are all > contiguous, maybe with a single hole somewhere. I could not prove > this. > > Inside a set, I took the sum of the squares of all initial positions > and the sum of the squares of all the final positions. The difference, > divided by 2, was the number of movements for the set. > > -- > 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. > > -- Regards, Abdelrhman.M. Abotaleb IEEE 2010 Student Chapter, AC Active member SPE 2009 Well Services Moderator cairo.spe.org Major: Electronics & Communications Minor: Computer Engineering -- 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.
