The epilogue said that the prophesy was mistranslated and that what was considered to be an apocalypse, happened to actually be a Giant Party. And Jamcode IX people were so busy enjoying the party that they forgot to communicate that to Jamcode X, and so X still tried to find the time to apocalypse :)
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 19:01, Bharath Raghavendran <rbharat...@gmail.com>wrote: > Its so easy to prove that the prophecy is wrong ... Take the > chronologically first distinct two occurrences of the apocalypse. Now, if > you consider the prophecy one slarbosecond after the second occurrence, its > quite obvious that, with T as the difference in time of the 2 occurences, > the next apocalypse should occur T slarboseconds after the second one. So, > if the prophecy is true, an apocalypse should occur every T slarboseconds > after the first occurrence. But obviously, this did not happen for most test > cases. Hence the prophecy is wrong :). The people of Jamcode X are wasting a > lot of time trying to determine the next occurrence based on a wrong > prophecy :P > > Maybe when they realized that the apocalypse did not occur, they decided to > have a giant party :). > > > On 9 May 2010 17:17, Ketan Joshi <ketan.s.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> what was the epilogoue about? I couldn't understand it >> >> >> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Luke Pebody <luke.peb...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> +1 >>> >>> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Bharath Raghavendran >>> <rbharat...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > I like the epilogue in the problem :) >>> > >>> > On 9 May 2010 06:22, ijacek <ondrej.prec...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> I must say that I did understand to this badly too, >>> >> but luckily the library function handles this case in favor my >>> >> intentions :-) >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On May 9, 1:41 am, Abizern <abiz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> > @Michael Dyck -- That makes perfect sense; thank you! >>> >> > >>> >> > On 9 May 2010 00:36, Michael Dyck <jmd...@ibiblio.org> wrote: >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > > Abizern wrote: >>> >> > >>> >> > >> The wording for Fair warning stated that t[i] <>t[j] for some i, >>> j. >>> >> > >>> >> > >> I took this to mean that there would be no duplicate times, but >>> there >>> >> > >> clearly were in the small test input that I saw. >>> >> > >>> >> > >> Did I misunderstand something? >>> >> > >>> >> > > No duplicate times would be: >>> >> > > t[i] != t[j] for ALL i != j >>> >> > >>> >> > > Instead, >>> >> > > t[i] != t[j] for SOME i, j >>> >> > > just means that there are at least two non-simultaneous events. >>> >> > >>> >> > > -Michael >>> >> > >>> >> > > -- >>> >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> >> > > Groups >>> >> > > "google-codejam" group. >>> >> > > To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com >>> . >>> >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> >> > > >>> >> > > google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-code%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>> <google-code%2bunsubscr...@googlegr >>> >> > > oups.com> >>> >> > > . >>> >> > > For more options, visit this group at >>> >> > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >>> >> > >>> >> > -- >>> >> > Abizer >>> >> > >>> >> > -- >>> >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> >> > Groups "google-codejam" group. >>> >> > To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. >>> >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> >> > google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-code%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>> . >>> >> > For more options, visit this group >>> >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups >>> >> "google-codejam" group. >>> >> To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. >>> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> >> google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-code%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>> . >>> >> For more options, visit this group at >>> >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >>> >> >>> > >>> > -- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups >>> > "google-codejam" group. >>> > To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> > google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-code%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>> . >>> > For more options, visit this group at >>> > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >>> > >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "google-codejam" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-code%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Blog: http://beingkejo.wordpress.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "google-codejam" group. >> To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-code%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-code%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > -- Thanks & Regards, Dhruva Sagar. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. 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