As stated in the analysis section of the qualification contest, they had their "traditional oddball Qualification Round D problem". Future problems will not include "such strange tasks".
On Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 10:13:33 PM UTC-7, Vladyslav Lukiantsev wrote: > First three tasks include some optimizations, working with arrays, etc. > Meanwhile, fourth task is the pure geometric problem, which takes a couple of > lines of code which are just mirror for geometric formulas and nothing with > optimization. > Is it normal for Google Code Jam to include such strange tasks in competition? -- 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/8d36433e-e314-408d-badb-7bf8dedf0046%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
