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I participated in ACM-ICPC regionals back in November and it was a lot of fun. I definitely recommend it to anyone that has the chance to go to preliminaries next year. The time limits are quite brutal for some of the problems @ finals, most of them I'd never have a proper optimal solution for. Also, the fact that Peking understood and solved A in just 5 minutes is crazy. Sure, I could at least do A, but they practic…
I just tried the brute force solution in Java, took me maybe 3-4 mins to code up and it finished with the max value of n in less than 1s.
I participated in ACM-ICPC regionals back in November and it was a lot of fun. I definitely recommend it to anyone that has the chance to go to preliminaries next year. The time limits are quite brutal for some of the problems @ finals, most of them I'd never have a proper optimal solution for. Also, the fact that Peking understood and solved A in just 5 minutes is crazy. Sure, I could at least do A, but they practic…
Not denying the rest of what you say -- these teams are scary good, but A was really simple -- lot simpler than the first problems I remember from when I coached our school's team. I just tried the brute force solution in Java, took me maybe 3-4 mins to code up and it finished with the max value of n in less than 1s.
Was that 3-4 mins from first starting to read it to finishing a solution? If so then great, but personally I would've taken 10-15 minutes because I'd be carefully reading it first and wondering why it sounds so simple.
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Wow.. Stanford is #74?
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-the-top-universities-like-MIT-H...
Is there any way to attempt these problems and verify our solutions? Do they release the test input/outputs?
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Not denying the rest of what you say -- these teams are scary good, but A was really simple -- lot simpler than the first problems I remember from when I coached our school's team. I just tried the brute force solution in Java, took me maybe 3-4 mins to code up and it finished with the max value of n in less than 1s.
I agree that A is really simple. I was pretty surprised to see that as a problem. Was that 3-4 mins from first starting to read it to finishing a solution? If so then great, but personally I would've taken 10-15 minutes because I'd be carefully reading it first and wondering why it sounds so simple.
I think it took me 9-10 mins in total, including testing on the provided inputs. I think I could have done it in a few mins faster 15 years ago when I competed (never made it to the Finals though). Also typically: one of the team members would immediately start coding up the first problem while others are working on the next problems, with the assumption that the first one is quite simple.