little joey wrote:That was one tough cookie... took 20+ submissions to get it under 45 seconds. Can't wait to see Rio smashing the runtime.
BTW Rujia, excellent problem set; keeps me off the street for a few days.
Thanks
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Though many of them are adapted from old contests, adapting them is quite annoying...For example, most of the original judge solution was not strong enough, so test cases are weak too. I'm very happy to see people like you trying hard to solve them. And (as you may notice), I'm ready to provide hints / clarifications for these problems.
little joey wrote:I noticed that you yourself didn't submit the problems on UVA. Are you sure your solutions run within the time/memory requirements?
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I'd answer "Yes", since the whole contest material I submitted include judge solutions.... And the timelimit is set according to it. The reason I did not submit my solution is.....
I think the first solver might be happy to see his name appears in the ranklist ALONE
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-- at least for a short time
anyway, i can submit the judge solution for harder problem after it is solve by at least two people. But usually they're not very fast, at least not intentionally optimized (otherwise you'll get a tighter timelimit, which would drive people crazy, hehe).
For example, all my judge solution for my tiny contest runs much slower than Rio's current best submission. That's great!