+1 Sent from my BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Bartholomew Furrow <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 10:44:34 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gcj] Re: Somebody tell me What's wrong of my output Problem-B?
I'd like to apologize for all the confusion on Magicka. It seemed that there were a couple of pain points: 1. Some people thought that all the elements were invoked at the same time, and then combination and opposition rules were applied once the list was full. Thankfully this was refuted by the sample cases, but we got a lot of questions about it. 2. Many people thought only part of the element list was cleared when there were opposing elements. Unfortunately this wasn't refuted by the sample cases, though it did create an ambiguity in the case 1 QRI 0 4 RRQR that might have led those people to think you always cancelled with the first opposing element in the list. There was a line of text for each of those that, I thought, made it unambiguous what you were supposed to do; but either one line wasn't enough to counteract people's intuitive understanding of how the problem should work, or the lines were ambiguous in some way I don't understand. If we had thought of those interpretations, we would definitely have made it more clear pre-contest; during the contest we added a little extra text, but it didn't really help to stem the tide of questions. Bartholomew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en.
