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Now now now!

I didn't say that Shahriar Manzoor had resorted to plagiarism.

I will say clearly and unambiguously that he did NOT.

It is quite normal and expected for problem setters to take interesting
material from all sorts of sources and make problems out of them. It
is not normal to ...

It is hard to believe that postings like these are real. Are you a
stand-up comedian trying out new material?

What do you gain by typing "da" instead of "the"? Maybe it saves you
a tiny fraction of a second in typing, but it really slows down reading
and (attempted) comprehension. What the hell ...

"There is no doubt that ...Becoz it is written by the
dicoverer of the problem!"


After many years of reading academic papers, I would not
take that as very strong evidence.

But in this case, it is undoubtedly right. I have come up with
exactly the same analytic results for t2 and t4, and ...

No, my problem is with what you mean by "Impossible",
I am not asking about "unstable".

My problem is NOT being surprised by WA's. It is not
knowing what the question is intended to mean.

As I said before, "Impossible" could mean:

(A) Physically impossible: such as w>d or h<0 or h=0, or

(B ...

OK, that is nice to know.
But you see what I mean now, don't you? The "on its own"
phrase wasn't as exact as it was intended to be.

Now, can somebody please say what "impossible"
really means?

And a confirmation that "rounded up" really just
means "rounded" would be nice too.

These frequently quoted words do not answer
the question:

" A situation is unstable only when a fallen pillar
cannot maintain that fallen position on it's own.
A fallen pillar means, the status of a pillar when
it falls towards right as much as it is allowed to
by the given configuration ...

Can somebody say what the question really means please?
There are parts of the problem statement that are at least
slightly wrong, and it does not fully define essential terms.

1. The output format says "rounded up-to three digits after the
decimal point". I presume it doesn't really mean ...

Following my previous posting, I now have'
to say "No, that can't be it".

From the problem statement:

Sample Input
test string test string test string
repeat repeat

Sample Output
test string
repeat

If "repeat repeat" is supposed to be reduced
to "repeat", then why on earth should "a b a"
be ...

Problems 10429-10438 have to be the worst-written
problems I've seen. The only thing difficult about them is
working out what they are trying to say.

So "take a line of text as input and produce a line of output
without the words repeated" and "Produce a line of text for
each line of input ...

I don't think you understood the question.

I pointed out that code that does not do what the
problem required, i.e. follow the form of
"Minimum time required is 6 minutes."
could get PE instead of WA.

The code posted prints "minute" instead of "minutes"
when the number is 0 or 1 (I do know ...

epsilon0 (Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 5:50 pm
Post subject: help with 10426 (wa))

posted his code for 10426. It ended like this:

printf("set#%d\n", set_no);
if (min_meet == EMPTY)
printf("Meeting is impossible.\n");
else
printf("Minimum time required is %u minute%s.\n",
min_meet,
(min ...