From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab1e23fc81e6b17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-28 01:17:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!feed.news.nacamar.de!eusc.inter.net!news.eusc.inter.net!boavista.snafu.de!news From: Michael Erdmann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What's the ICFP Programming contest? Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:33:49 +0200 Organization: [Posted via] Inter.net Germany GmbH Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.eusc.inter.net 1056788259 1593 213.73.70.179 (28 Jun 2003 08:17:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@eusc.inter.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39865 Date: 2003-06-28T09:33:49+02:00 List-Id: 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.