If the sample had the case below I would be able to solve it. sad ... :'(
Input        Output: 2
11 2
26 28




On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Luke Pebody <[email protected]> wrote:

> In my humble opinion, Code Jam covers edge cases in their samples much
> much more than Topcoder. In Topcoder, I might have been careless and not
> notice the infinite loop my solution went into in tonight's problem 1 if A
> = 1.
>
> Whether this is "better" or "worse" is a separate debate, but definitely I
> find more coverage in Code Jam than Topcoder.
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Niraj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> there may be many edge cases which is not covered in sample, but we need
>> to take care it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> *Niraj Kumar*
>>
>> B.Tech. CSE
>> Class of 2012
>> ISM, Dhanbad
>> 8274952350
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Leandro Coutinho <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The small dataset should test if the coder didn't hard coded the
>>> solution.
>>> The large dataset should test if the algorithm is efficient enough.
>>>
>>> So if the solution is not hard coded and could solve the sample, it
>>> should be able to solve the small dataset at least.
>>> It's very frustrating when the output is correct for the sample but
>>> fails for the small dataset.
>>> And it's also harder to debug ...
>>>
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