[algogeeks] Re: Abacus Online Programming Contest - January 29th

2006-01-19 Thread shalinmangar
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++ :-)

[algogeeks] Re: Abacus Online Programming Contest - January 29th

2006-01-18 Thread Mattia Merzi
On 1/18/06, Karthik Singaram L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] 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

[algogeeks] Re: Abacus Online Programming Contest - January 29th

2006-01-18 Thread Prunthaban Kanthakumar
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

[algogeeks] Re: Abacus Online Programming Contest - January 29th

2006-01-17 Thread Mattia Merzi
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