Got Root?
p2pnet.net News:- IPSC stands for Internet Problem Solving Contest.
The ideas is: teams of up to three people work to solve problems – a description and two input data sets – posed at the beginning of the competition.
“To solve a problem you will have to compute correct output data for the given input data sets,” says the contest page here, going on:
“You can write a program that solves the problem or you may produce the output by hand or by a combination of these techniques. Teams submit only output data sets for judging and should not send their programs.
And this year’s event is slated to start tomorrow.
Problems sets from last year included: Arranging Flowers, begin 4 7 add, Got Root? and Hordes of Bacteria.
If you want to try out the contest environment, there’s a practice session May 20 to May 21. Go here for details.
And Oh Yeh, says the IPSC team:
“We have also one special task for you. After you register for this year’s contest, you are encouraged to send us a nice postcard. If the postcard arrives before the contest, your team will be awarded -60 penalty minutes. (Don’t forget to write the name of your team on the back of the postcard.) “
The address is: KSP, KVI FMFI UK, Mlynska dolina, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia
