Can anybody download the problset

yahoo · Post by **yahoo** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 11:33 am

Has anybody has been able to download the problemset of todays contest. If anybody been able please tell me how to do it.

Karshikinpa · Post by **Karshikinpa** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 11:40 am

i haven't been either =/

from the looks of the ranklist, it doesn't appear that anyone has been able to =(

BiK · Post by **BiK** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 11:54 am

We cannot see the problemset at all, that is there is no problemset available, let alone download it.

Do you know how can we contact the contest organizers? We've been trying for one hour already.

Karshikinpa · Post by **Karshikinpa** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 12:03 pm

seems that it just showed up very late. here is a direct link to teh pdf:

http://acm.uva.es/contest/data/next/problemset/pdf.zip

chenyue · Post by **chenyue** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 5:17 pm

Next time you can send e-mail to clarify@acm.uva.es and Shahriar will reply to you promptly.

I just wonder why it takes so long to compile -- hasn't UVA changed her server? I don't think 200 teams can slow down the procedure that much since we (http://acm.zju.edu.cn/) have hosted on-line contests of similar size before...

Karshikinpa · Post by **Karshikinpa** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 5:26 pm

actually, i sent an e-mail 09:20 and didn't receive a response. i don't know how many others may have sent e-mails too, but since no one could get to the problems i expect there were a number of e-mails sent and don't expect a personal response.

also, since this was my first uva contest to do, i wasn't sure if it was a problem on my end or not.

chenyue · Post by **chenyue** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 5:48 pm

Oh

I got a personal reply in 15 minutes from Shahriar -- so I was quite lucky. Thanks to Shahriar~

Just find the judging speed untolerable...why is it soooo slow?

chenyue · Post by **chenyue** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 5:53 pm

By the way, there's an on-line contest scheduled on Oct. 18 at

http://acm.zju.edu.cn/contests/

All are welcome to enjoy

shahriar_manzoor · Post by **shahriar_manzoor** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 1:17 am

It becomes very hard for the server if a problem has long time limit.

The mistake I made is that I thought that problem A is difficult so less people will submit it. So I kept the time limit 10 sec instead of asking the problemsetter to reduce judge data. But it did not work. People tried all sorts of methods to solve this problem.

When reply from the judge becomes slow people tend to submit the same code more than once and the judge becomes even slower. Let's see what we can do in future.

I got so much (uncountable

) emails during the contest that it was impossible for me to reply them quickly.

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