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Al Zimmermann's Programming Contests

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Post by muyyatin » Sat, Jan 19, 2013, 11:36 PM UTC

Re: Al Zimmermann's Programming Contests

Post by andrewcooke » Sun, Jan 20, 2013, 1:29 AM UTC

is the current problem (or earlier ones) complex enough for this to be more than a hardware contest?

Post by YZF » Sun, Jan 20, 2013, 3:40 AM UTC

andrewcooke wrote: post #2

is the current problem (or earlier ones) complex enough for this to be more than a hardware contest?

This one seems at first glance to be complex enough that you will not see any perfect solution (NP-complete?)

I would say it's more than just a hardware contest but if the approaches are similar enough having enough time and hardware may make a difference...