From: Michael Erdmann <michael.erdmann@snafu.de>
Subject: Re: What's the ICFP Programming contest?
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:33:49 +0200
Date: 2003-06-28T09:33:49+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tvsvs-brf.ln1@boavista.snafu.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ib5La.38469$3d.20463@sccrnsc02>
tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>>>>http://www.icfpcontest.org
>>
>>Any way, is some one or a team from the Ada community
>>attenending the contents?
>
> I see it's a race car around a track simulation. At any step you
> (your program) can accelerate, brake, turn, and they supply equations
> for where you'll be next. The object is to get around the arbitrarily
> shaped) track to the goal fastest, without going into the fence enroute.
> Sounds like an Ada type of problem.
I guess this is a nice optimazation problem. Theoretically it
could be solved by brutal force to find the best route.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-28 7:33 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 [this message]
2003-06-29 6:47 ` Hyman Rosen
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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