For N=2, a valid strategy is to always shrink to the minimum number of copies of each letter. This is not valid for N >= 3 (an example I would use if there were a challenge round would be 'A', 'AA' and 'AAA')
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Bartholomew Furrow <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually I think you can if you look at the http request for downloading > someone else's input and do something similar for a failed solution. Let's > call it a bug rather than a feature. :-) > > Also you could download the small for one of those people. I'm sure most > coded for the large, and it just didn't work out. > On May 4, 2014 8:48 AM, "LeppyR64" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I didn't participate in this round since I qualified through Round 1A. >> >> In analysis I noticed that a large amount of people near the bubble for >> the top 1000 who got a wrong answer for A Large. I'm a little confused >> that I fail to see the pitfall after successfully solving the small input. >> >> We can't download the solutions that fail, so if there's anyone who >> submitted this problem and wanted to comment I would be interested in >> hearing what the pitfall was. >> >> Cheers, >> Leppy >> >> -- >> 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/88959724-c3a2-4391-ad33-3d881664c740%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/CAHaiWHMEG8J11xXURwj%2Bhx_XhRVbV%3DnGKj9zDG_XQvtt3xTKfw%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/CAHaiWHMEG8J11xXURwj%2Bhx_XhRVbV%3DnGKj9zDG_XQvtt3xTKfw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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/CAECKw-Mw6Dob9epypkNqK%2B9Eau%2BWxM8G4a7iqi1AT_AszJ6T_A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
