i made that mistake too :)

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Hugo Benicio <[email protected]> wrote:

> Oh, never mind. I misunderstood this quote
> "For example (and here is a hint!), our awesome translation algorithm
> includes the following three mappings: 'a' -> 'y', 'o' -> 'e', and 'z' ->
> 'q'. This means that "a zoo" will become "y qee"."
>
> 'o' in  english maps to 'e'in googlerese.
>
> and in the example, we discover that
> 'o' in googlerese (not in english!) maps to 'k' in english!
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Hugo Benicio <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> So...
>>
>> This is the link for the problem enunciation:
>> http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/1460488/dashboard#s=p0&a=0
>>
>> and this is the link for the problem analysis:
>> http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/1460488/dashboard#s=a&a=0
>>
>>
>> Can someone explain me if there is an error on this enunciation/example
>> or it is just me who got a like confused.
>>
>> There is an input example:
>> de kr kd eoya kw aej tysr re ujdr lkgc jv
>>
>> That maps to this output:
>> so it is okay if you want to just give up
>>
>>
>> So, with this case we get the mapping of 'o' -> 'k'.
>>
>> But, on the other side, at the beginning of the enunciation, we have:
>> "For example (and here is a hint!), our awesome translation algorithm
>> includes the following three mappings: 'a' -> 'y', 'o' -> 'e', and 'z' ->
>> 'q'. This means that "a zoo" will become "y qee"."
>>
>> 'o'  mapping to 'e'
>>
>> So... Isn't the problem ambiguos? Does 'o' maps to 'e' or to 'k'?
>> Is the problem ok or am I just missing something?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> hbobenicio.
>>
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