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)

• 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

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: Euclid Problem
• B: Factovisors
• C: Little Bishops
• D: Queue
• E: Garden of Eden