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Home » Compete » February 2010 Contest
Try your hand at one of the practice
         problems, and submit your solution in the language of your choice
         (our judge accepts solutions in over 35+ languages). Receive points,
         and move up through the CodeChef ranks. Get better, and better prepare
         yourself for the competitions
Name Code Successful Submissions Accuracy
The Mine Field M1 29 5.96
Motorbike Racing M2 5 0.62
Soccer League M3 81 4.44
Toll Trolls M4 13 1.35
Overlapping discs M5 7 2.61
Sorting device MX 41 58.41

Find out more about this contest and its winners in our blog post.

Rules:

  • Please do not discuss strategy, suggestions or tips in the comments during a live contest. Posting questions clarifying the problem statement is ok. If you are unsure, email us at feedback@codechef.com
  • Contest problems will become visible on February 1st 2010.
  • You will receive one point for solving a problem (passing all test cases - no partial credit), regardless of the level of difficulty of that problem.
  • You can submit solutions as many times as you'd like, there are no penalties for incorrect submissions.
  • Each contest will have one min/max tie breaker problem, where the best solution will receive one point and all other solutions will receive a fraction based how close they come to the best solution.
  • In the unlikely case of an overall tie (including the same score on the tie-breaker) a winner will be randomly chosen from the top scorers.

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02:51 AM Mar 4th: triplem commented on The Mine Field: Approaches have been discussed in the forum.
10:26 PM Mar 3rd: shivmitra commented on The Mine Field: can anyone provide the algorithm for this problem??
02:58 PM Feb 15th: triplem commented on Soccer League: There's really no point in me continually coming up with test cases for all the fa...
02:19 PM Feb 15th: ankit1990 commented on Soccer League: Sorry i forgot to mention that it seems to be workin correctly on all the test cas...
02:15 PM Feb 15th: ankit1990 commented on Soccer League: @Anyone who can help me out Here was my solution to soccer league: http://www.co...
10:07 AM Feb 15th: triplem commented on Soccer League: Very simple example: 1
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0 2 2 2
2 0 1 0
2 0 0 1
2 1 0 0...
02:07 AM Feb 15th: triplem commented on Soccer League: My apologies, I did indeed misread your algorithm. It still isn't correct; I'll fi...
08:51 PM Feb 14th: sohilgupta commented on Soccer League: @Stephen Merriman Hey dude I am having trouble figuring out what you wanted to sa...
02:28 PM Feb 14th: triplem commented on Soccer League: No, as I've already said, any greedy solution will fail. Again, it is easy to come...
11:19 AM Feb 14th: madmaxwell commented on Soccer League: I feel sort of crazy, my solution (which worked for any test cases I came up with)...
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