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May 2nd, 2008

David Jones Stays on Top through Twilight, Early Bird Special Announced

David Jones, winner of Darkness, maintained his lead through Twilight as well. David is a contest veteran, and you can read about his previous wins in the Hall of Fame, but this is the first time he’s conquered either of these contest phases.

He had lots of competition, too. Just behind him were Alfonso Nieto-Castanon, Nick Howe, Steve Hoelzer, Jan Langer, Mike Bindschadler, Claus Still, Gerbert Myburgh, Fabio Carnevale, Andreas, and many others. See the listing of the top 25 in the statistics.

We’re now in Daylight and everyone’s code in visible. To get things rolling, we’ll award an Early Bird Special to the best-scoring entry submitted before 5PM Eastern. Good luck!

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The MATLAB Programming Contest is a semi-annual competition where contestants submit MATLAB code to try to solve a challenge. For more information, see the overview.
  • Helen Chen: Hurray for Yi! That is a really great accomplishment! Helen
  • David Jones: Thanks for sharing your analysis Alan. As you have argued persuasively, it looks like 13,000 is...
  • OkinawaDolphin: It seems that new entries don’t show up anymore because the queue is clogged.
  • srach: Yeah, but in 4 hours David Jones wakes up (if he does sleep at all) and pulls a rabbit out of his hat which...
  • Yi Cao: Nice analysis, Alan. It was my original judgement as well when the challenge was announced.
  • Alan Chalker: While I haven’t had much time to compete in this contest, I’ve done some analysis and...
  • Matthew: Good point. Done!
  • MikeR: I am assuming you are going to apply the constraint that this challenge applies to the new testsuite.
  • DrSeuss: I wonder if a score-neutral test-suite swap is even possible. ;-)
  • Alan Chalker: As I usually do, I’ve now posted a heavily commented version of the leading code so that those of...

These postings are the author's and don't necessarily represent the opinions of The MathWorks.

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