Well if you're really serious about www.topcoder.com, I guess you'll
never need to write bubblesort.
Use Arrays.sort() or Collections.sort() in java or sort(v.begin(),
v.end()) in C++ :-)
On 1/18/06, Karthik Singaram L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Time of submission therefore has a higher priority therefore.
that was my point, in fact ... I (personally) don't agree with this rule ...
Well, I understand that a time limit must be set, I can't say well, ok,
I will finish until
Inmost of the good opcs(Including Abacus)only the best code survives the tests! You can't write bubble sort when asked for a sorting algorithm! It will simply time out!
So provided only the best algo survives, the next criteria for evaluation will obviously be How quick u came out with the idea
On 1/17/06, Lenin Ravindranath S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CodeAreana - Online Programming Contest - January 29th 2006
[from the Rules page]
Participants will be first ranked by the number of problems correctly
solved.
[it's ok ...]
In case of a tie, the participants shall be in turn ranked