Hello,

While going through old Codejam problems, I find that the
minimum distance is wrong with the example solution for
Problem B (of round 1C of 2009), case 2 and 3:

( http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/dashboard?c=189252#s=p1 )

Case 2:

  The position of the center of mass at time t is:

  [-18, 3, 0] + t * [3, 0, 0]

  giving tmin = 6 as shown in the example output.
  Substituting tmin = 6 in the above expression
  I get:

  [0, 3, 0]

  which is 3 away from the origin, not 1
  as in the example output.

Case 3:

  For the center of mass I get:

  [5, 14, 4] + t * [4, -6, 2]

  where I get again tmin = 1 as shown in the example
  but substituting this I get:

  [9, 8, 6]

  which is 13.4536240471 away from the origin,
  not 3.36340601 as given in the example.

Can anybody convince me of the contrary ?
(or could this be updated on the contest analysis ?)

I apologize if I state the obvious...


best regards,

Andre


(In addition, just as a test, I downloaded the
 solution of one of the top contestants
 for this problem, ran the small input set
 and submitted it. The verifier does not
 accept the output ...)

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