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SRM597: My sad story
By cgy4ever, 11 years ago, In English

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11 years ago, # |
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The link isn't working.

Still, you don't need to feel that bad about the 600 problem — the systemtest for it was dyed in bloody red.

Like I ranted before: TC should have pretests, it's too random this way. I was successfully challenged on both problems I thought I'd managed to solve successfully in the last round I competed in; this time, I got 19. place. Random stuff.

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    I have uploaded the picture in another "free uploading" server. Does it works now?

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    Yes, you are right, the 600p was tricky. But the fact is that I failed only by mistyping a variable name.

    I agree that stronger pretests would make it better, but there is always a way to fail system test that pretest can't save you.

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Just curious about the random function, suppose we don't use some seeds (like srand() in C++) then is it true that the function will always return the same number for the same arguments?

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    Java's Math.random() is making a new instance of Random class when first called and then uses this instance to make random doubles. To use custom seeds, you should use Random class directly.

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Don't worry bro, sometimes even my submissions fail (nod).

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