From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: What's the ICFP Programming contest?
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 06:47:35 GMT
Date: 2003-06-29T06:47:35+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bYvLa.21641$N%6.4860@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tvsvs-brf.ln1@boavista.snafu.de>
Michael Erdmann wrote:
> I guess this is a nice optimazation problem. Theoretically it
> could be solved by brutal force to find the best route.
The ICFP contests are always like that. I doubt that pure brute
force is the way to go, since the answers have to be submitted
by Monday! The model uses fixed point arithmetic, and the rules
give an exact description of the representation format and how
arithmetic works. I don't know enough about Ada to know whether
this maps directly onto an Ada fixd point type.
The contest is unique this year in that you run your program
yourself, on your own computer, and just produce a sequence of
driving instructions. Then the contest organizers race the cars,
and the fastest performer wins.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-29 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-26 1:30 What's the ICFP Programming contest? tmoran
2003-06-26 8:24 ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-27 20:37 ` Michael Erdmann
2003-06-28 0:21 ` tmoran
2003-06-28 7:33 ` Michael Erdmann
2003-06-29 6:47 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2003-06-29 22:37 ` tmoran
2003-07-01 5:58 ` overriding "*", was " tmoran
2003-07-01 20:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-07-02 17:10 ` tmoran
2003-07-02 18:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-07-03 7:55 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-07-04 7:01 ` Robert I. Eachus
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