Thomas, if you haven't already you should be able to download the input file you got during the contest and compare your results on that to the results the winners would have gotten.
I hope that helps! Bartholomew On Apr 26, 2014 6:25 AM, "Thomas Withaar" <[email protected]> wrote: > In short: I have trouble figuring out what I did wrong on Problem A. I had > 3 incorrect submissions, but the exact same code gives the correct solution > for the practice input now that the round is over. > > I've attempted problem A, Charging Chaos, for the previous Round 1A with > Java. While I recognized the problem as relatively simple bit pattern > matching, I'm not experienced with bitwise operations. Because of the time > constraint I couldn't afford to familiarize myself with bitwise operations > so I (sadly) wrote a lot of logic in order to work with the data. > > Despite the messy resulting code I was certain I was very close to a > correct solution. I had taken the sample input and provided the correct > output, and after my first incorrect submission I've added some cases to > this 'sample input' in order to debug my program. I ended up with a brute > force approach where I generated all possible permutations of bit > patterns... > > I've since inspected some of the top ranked Java submissions and > understand their solutions. However, it doesn't show me which corner cases > my approach misses, since it gave an incorrect output during the attempts > in the actual round. > > If someone would be willing to quickly sift through my code and try to > find which corner cases I could be missing, I would be very grateful. > > I couldn't find a way to link my submissions (since there's no actual > correct solution) so here's my zipped file shared publicly on my Drive. > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6GdM9JUZFc6YkVYRjViamlDMTg/edit?usp=sharing > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Code Jam" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/0877b50e-0916-4279-996a-da16d0e9fd40%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/CAHaiWHNk0rdFfAWmwfc7U%2BkMp_HG7SNEzekhSWL6-3t70miH4A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
