In competitive programming contest, you will see a lot of such MATH problems; some of them are even harder than this one.
You will need to know some linear algebra, probabilities and/or statistics in order to solve those ones. The whole thing is not only testing how good you can code, but also how good your critical thinking and analysis are. 在 2017年3月9日星期四 UTC-8上午8:07:28，Wing-chung Leung写道： > Thanks, but depressed to know that we need to solve algebra instead of code > in a code jam. > > I'm not complaining about the use of math here. But in this question a CAS > will make the calculations, i.e. the essence of this question, trivial. -- 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/1559a2fb-ddc1-40b0-b82f-8d4aec0c5996%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
