====== Weekly Contest for October 7-8, 2010 ======

The contest this week is a **team contest**.  One workstation per team.  Divide up the problems, one per person.  Solve, fight over workstation, collaborate on algorithms, code reviews, and debugging.

The contest server is on pc2.cs.purdue.edu.  From a departmental UNIX machine, use this command to get started...

   % (cd /homes/jtk/pc2; bin/pc2team)

===== Teams =====

  * Team 1: Ben, Derek, Winthan
  * Team 2: Hearson, Yuedong
  * Team 3: Emily, John L
  * Team 4: Abram, John B, Tim
  * Team 5: Alex, Eric, Dylan

===== Problems =====

A and B are from Chapter 7: Number Theory.  C, D, and E are from Chapter 8: Backtracking.  For A, use the GCD algorithm in the text.  For the backtracking problems, use the schema in the text.

  * A: [[http://www.programming-challenges.com/pg.php?page=downloadproblem&probid=110703&format=html|Euclid Problem]]
  * B: [[http://www.programming-challenges.com/pg.php?page=downloadproblem&probid=110704&format=html|Factovisors]]
  * C: [[http://www.programming-challenges.com/pg.php?page=downloadproblem&probid=110801&format=html|Little Bishops]]
  * D: [[http://www.programming-challenges.com/pg.php?page=downloadproblem&probid=110803&format=html|Queue]]
  * E: [[http://www.programming-challenges.com/pg.php?page=downloadproblem&probid=110806&format=html|Garden of Eden]]