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Ad Infinitum August'14 -- HackerRank
By shashank21j, 10 years ago, In English

Hi!

Ad Infinitum is back with Infinitum August'14, a monthly contest restricted to mathematics domain, held on HackerRank.

Register at https://www.hackerrank.com/infinitum-aug14
The contest commences on 14th August 15:30 UTC. You are allowed to enter the contest anytime, for tie breaking the timer will start when you view the challenge, which allows you to start late at your convenience, but once started try to finish as fast as possible to be on top of the leaderboard :)

It's a 3 days contest with 8 problems (3 Easy, 3 Medium, 2 Hard)
Scoring Distribution: 20 20 20 40 60 80 100 120

problem statements in English, Russian and Chinese

Top 10 on leaderboard gets Cool HackerRank T shirt,
Update: Everyone with full score will get a T shirt :D

Contributers
kevinsogo
tmt514
sevenkplus
abhra73
ma5termind
amitp08
devu
I_love_47

Detailed editorials will be available by the end of contest :) I suggest you to try all challenges and at the end of contest understand the solutions.

GL&HF

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Wow, this time duration is three days instead of two. And may I ask you why?

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    15th of August in India is Independence day and a national holiday which means free time to code. If I had kept 15,16 then 17th was a sunday and there is no other contest scheduled on Sunday so I am letting infinitum go on for 3 days.

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When you'll start to show also a penalty time in standings, not only points?

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    On your request, developers are on it. Penalty column will be added to leaderboard, but it'll be in effect by end of weekend. So after the contest you'll be able to see it.

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      That's great news, thank you:)

      BTW, just received t-shirt for one of previous Hackerrank contests, looks great and motivates to do my best in future contests:)

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Hi, what's penalty time for Ad Infinitum?

submit-startContest or submit-openTime ?

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    10 years ago, # ^ |
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    Submit_last — View_first

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      Thanks.

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      That seems like a great idea, but only apparently. After a while, dishonest people will just realize that they can simply open another dummy account to view the problems.

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        People who really want to cheat can beat any system. So what should be my goal?
        I only think about ways to help honest programmers.
        Statistically speaking dishonest programmers quit too often too soon.

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thank you for the great problems and additional 3 t-shirts :).

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    It's my pleasure to see you participate :) Heartiest congratulations to all 13 winners.

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