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Name Code Successful Submissions Accuracy
The Morning Commute COMMUTE 173 57.93
Pairing Chefs PAIRING 164 45.24
Preparing Dishes PREPARE 34 12.15
Newspaper Puzzle PUZZLES 2 7.41
Seeding The Pattern SEEDS 5 13.16

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  • Contest problems will become visible on December 19th 2010 at 21:30 (IST). There will be 5 problems in all.

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10:08pm: The problem statement for SEEDS has been updated.

09:45pm: The Rank List for the CodeChef December Cook Off is available here: http://www.codechef.com/rankings/COOK05

CONTEST ENDED.

RESULTS:

RECENT ACTIVITY:

RECENT COMMENTS FOR THIS SECTION:

02:48 PM Jul 12th: sehriyar commented on Pairing Chefs: My solution.
12:37 AM Dec 29th: mehankit7 commented on Newspaper Puzzle: h
06:51 PM Dec 20th: abhishek_jain commented on The Morning Commute: #include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>


int main()
06:50 PM Dec 20th: rajiv92 commented on Pairing Chefs: THE BELOW CODE IS WRITTEN IN C++ IS IT CORRECT? #include<iostream.h> ...
03:13 PM Dec 20th: mkagenius commented on Pairing Chefs: Dont waste your time optimizing this one. Move on to better problems.
12:12 AM Dec 20th: mkagenius commented on Preparing Dishes: How to divide a set of numbers in two groups such that their absolute difference i...
12:09 AM Dec 20th: tamilcoder commented on The Morning Commute: Where can i find this problems under practise ?? I need to test my solution ??
12:06 AM Dec 20th: wakingdevil commented on Pairing Chefs: #Written in python 3.1 a=(int)(input()) i=0 inp=[] while(i<a): i=i+1 te...
11:58 PM Dec 19th: Ra16bit commented on Seeding The Pattern: If there is no solution, Should I output "no solutions" (as in output) or "no solu...
11:43 PM Dec 19th: rajiv_adm commented on Preparing Dishes: no, it is not necessarry
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