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November 29th, 2006

The Contest Begins in Darkness

The MATLAB Contest is now underway. We are in darkness. During the first day of the contest, participants can’t see the scores or the code for any of the entries. This phase challenges participants to create a solution without any feedback from the actual test suite and independently from each other. This phase ends on Thursday at noon EDT and we’ll award our first mid-contest prize for the best entry submitted before twilight. Welcome and good luck!

By Matthew Simoneau

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  1. Jitender Singh replied on November 30th, 2006 at 01:17 UTC :

    any ? equals one !

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