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Winners (2010)

  • 1st Prize - Team FancyMouse [ Xiaoqing Tang ]
  • 2nd Prize - Team kinaba [ Kazuhiro Inaba ]
  • 3rd Prize - Team jdmetz [ Josh Metzler ]
  • Top Indian Team - frodo
Congratulations to all the winners. Hope all of you enjoyed the contest, we hope to see you next year.

Top Scorers in each problem

PALIN1Ania
PALIN2 BugBangTheory
PREP TTCW
CARM Sirius
COMP Omoikane
SHORTEN diver_ru
KEY kinaba
CQUINE FancyMouse

Contributions (2010)

  • Shinichiro Hamaji - We are thankful to him for contributing the problem, PREP. This problem turned out to be quite challenging during the course of contest.
  • All other problems evolved during discussions between Yash, Gaurav Agarwal, and vital suggestions from Ajay Somani .
  • We are very thankful to Anshuman Singh, for writing Checkers for various programs and helping us organising the contest.
  • We are especially very thankful to Rajat Goel. He developed the whole judge. Without him, it wasn't possible to organise this event. He wrote some beautiful checkers and monitored the contest all the time. He removed the bugs, problems which were coming during the contest in almost no time.


Updates

17/02/2010 (02:00hrs)IST Contest Ends : The contest has ended. All the submissions are open now.
17/02/2010 (01:50hrs)IST Checker Update for both PALIN1 and PALIN2 : Since both had almost same checker. Both had the same bugs. We accept it. Please follow the same process for PALIN1 as for PALIN2(Mentioned below.). Sorry for inconvenience.
17/02/2010 (01:47hrs)IST Checker Update for PALIN2: All of you please resubmit your solution for PALIN2. Please use the code window while submitting the solutions for this as editors put some inadverdent spaces at the end. There was a bug in checker. We accept it. We are in process of rejudge. Now the checker is fine.Sorry for inconvenience.
CARM - Updated: Only Carmichael Numbers less than 10^(5000) will be considered. Bigger number will be judged to wrong answer. We need this constraint to make our checker work in time. Sorry for inconvenience.
16/02/2010 (15:05hrs)IST : Submission for CQUINE can now be made. Few teams tried to solve the problem by reading files, please do not make such attempts. Few solutions have been rejudged for the same.
16/02/2010 (15:01hrs)IST : We have stopped submission for the problem CQUINE for 1 - 2 hours. There is some problem with system.
There is no bug with checker or anything, but a problem with system. We'll get back to you soon.
15/02/2010 (22:55hrs)IST : There was a bug in the PALIN1 problem. It has been rejudged.
15/02/2010 (21:56hrs)IST : We found a bug in our checker for KEY. We have rejudged all the submissions for KEY.
15/02/2010 (19:20hrs)IST : Clarification Added for problem KEY.
15/02/2010 (17:20hrs)IST : Issues with CARM have been resolved. We have rejudged all the submissions.
15/02/2010 (17:20hrs)IST : Hopefully the problem with CARM and the status/ranklist page have been resolved.
15/02/2010 (16:55hrs)IST : Currently we are facing problems with the CARM Judge. Kindly be patient.
15/02/2010 (16:55hrs)IST : Currently we are facing problems with the CARM Judge. Kindly be patient.
15/02/2010 (16:08hrs)IST : We are facing some problem with the judge. We will get back to you shortly.
15/02/2010 (13:30hrs)IST : The Contest has started ! Submissions will be enabled at 4PM IST

Contest will start at 2PM IST, but submission will be enabled only at 4PM IST.
Though you will be able to see the problems. Also please see the important annoucements below.

Important Announcements

  • Look at the Scoring Scheme Below.
  • Problems may be added after 12 / 24 hours
  • Generally editors add, either \n\r (Notepad), or only \n(Vim) at the end of the file.
    So Please while submitting your solution, submit via the window provided in the submit option.
    That would hopefully avoid any problems due to there line delimeters.

Scoring Scheme

  • Highest Scorer of the problem will get double the maximum score.
  • Scoring is relative, every one will be given points relative to the best score, (Best Score = Maximum Score for that problem).

Details of Submission Status

  • Accepted : Program was completely correct.
  • Compilation Error : Program didn't compile.
  • Wrong Answer : Output does not match the correct output.
  • Time Limit Exceeded : Program ran for more time than what is allowed for a particular problem.
  • Memory Limit Exceeded : Program tried to allocate more memory than what is allowed
  • Output Limit Exceeded : Output produced by your program is too long
  • Floating Point Exception : Floating point errors. For example: divide by zero
  • Segmentation Fault : Program generated sigsegv signal.
  • Abort Called : Program aborted.
  • Restricted Function Call : Program tries to call functions that are not allowed for this contest.

Prizes

  • First Prize : 7500 INR
  • Second Prize : 5000 INR
  • Third Prize : 2500 INR
  • Prizes for Indian teams Top Indian team gets 1000 INR.