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December 2nd, 2006

David Jones Wins Midnight Madness

David Jones wins our Midnight Madness award for the best entry submitted before midnight on Friday. Despite a minor queue stall (pesky NaNs), David’s entry clawed its way to the top of the heap. Congratulations!

By Matthew Simoneau

03:48 UTC | Posted in Blackbox | Permalink |

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3 Responses to “David Jones Wins Midnight Madness”

  1. amir replied on December 2nd, 2006 at 14:37 UTC :

    it seems that while everybody’s program include more than 10,000 char alireza kashanoipour wrote a program in about 4000 char it would be noticeable and great
    this is the end point of optimization
    thnaks

  2. AliReza KashaniPour replied on December 2nd, 2006 at 18:25 UTC :

    i’m so confuse,my prog has less CPU time and same score,etc,… but i’m in second!!
    i send a new prog … go up … but after some min some one send my code and get my place and i fall to second!!

  3. Matthew replied on December 2nd, 2006 at 19:10 UTC :

    Because the difference in time is small and we’re low on the exponential time penalty, these two scores are the same due to round-off error.

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