Weekly Contest for November 11-12, 2010

The contest this week is for those seeking respite from the ICYPC Challenge. Teams or individuals are OK. Team accounts are team1-team15 with the usual password.

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)

• A: Generating Permutations
• B: Multitasking
• C: Games Are Important
• D: The Busy Dog
• E: Ambiguous Forests
• F: Rectangles
• G: Maze Escape
• H: Net Profit
• I: Splitting Numbers
• J: Magic Formula
• K: Through the Desert
• X: Mean Modes
• Y: The Travelling Salesman

Notes:

• X and Y are “sample problems” for the contest system.
• Easiest problems (based on regional contest): J, K, I, B, H