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TopCoder Single Round Match 591
By PAP, 11 years ago, In English

hello!
topcoder SRM 591 will take place Monday, 16 September 2013 at 21:00
Lets discuss problems here after end of the contest.
thank you all and have fun!

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11 years ago, # |
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It can't happen today in any timezone as there is more then 24 hours till SRM

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    thank you! :)
    changed!

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Thanx;)

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topcoder is useless site!
I don't recommend it for coders!

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    If you only registered to write comments like this one, it'd be better if you didn't at all.

    While TC has a smaller variety of problems and weird restrictions (which sometimes lead to a lot of unnecessary input parsing), and the contests are done using a fail Java arena (I've never been able to log in when using a proxy server in Slovakia), the problems are often interesting and it has other well done features on the site, like algorithm tutorials. It's still worth competing.

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could any one explain the approach of DIV2 1000 point problem. http://community.topcoder.com/stat?c=problem_statement&pm=12750 I am habitual of using topdown approach of solving dp problem and I am unable to implement it using top down. please suggest some link on similar problems where bottom up approach is efficient. Thanks in advance

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Does anybody know why the first problem in div1 was 275 points? I mean, the code was short and the problem was not that hard.

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    I am surprised to see that people question additional 25 points for easy and do not complain about a 500-pointer solved by 19 people only :)

    The easy seemed a bit trickier than an average d1-easy, so its point value was raised. It turned out the other way.

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Editorial

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