Just to share a bit of frustration, after finishing the first problem and ranking #1517, successfully, I thought I would try my hand at the third problem. This seemed to be a divide-and-conquer. After rereading the specs, I thought a nice recursive algorithm would do the trick.
It probably would have done. As a matter of fact, after getting rid of off-by-one errors, it probably would have allowed me to end up at the first 1500. Unfortunately, I had prepared my code in Visual Studio 2019. And my program triggered an internal compiler error. I tried to work around this, but alas, I could not do it in time. Code and problem can be found at https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/556902/internal-compiler-error-c1001-when-compiling-recur.html Again, I'll just try again next year. But I rather would have liked to have lost or not progressed by simply being not fast enough. Good luck to those who did make it to the next round. Ronald -- 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/be216c16-ee81-4ccd-87ce-0f5999f32fd2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
