VMSS 7WC '16, Week 3

This is the third week of Vincent Massey's Seven Week Challenge! In the seven weeks leading into CCC, we'll be writing weekly contests to prepare everyone for it. Each contest will have three problems, in order of difficulty: Bronze, Silver, and Gold. You'll have a week to solve them all, so take it easy.

In this contest, you'll help Shahir ask his sweetheart out to prom through the most fashionable and romantic way possible: the postal system. The problem writer for this week is still JeffreyZ. Bronze and Silver should be solvable with Python. Gold was done in C++ and I'm not going to make any guarantees about that one. The overall difficulty of this contest is slightly toned down from last week.

I'd like to thank DianaC for sorta kinda providing an idea for this contest, and the DMOJ problem coordinator, cheesecake, for being cool enough to deal with my broken test cases and my lack of knowledge on how to use DMOJ Admin for pretty much every contest. And for allowing us to host the 7WC on DMOJ.

This round will be unrated.

Before the contest date, you may wish to check out the tips and help pages.

The contest consists of three problems with a difficulty range similar to that of CCC Junior. If you cannot solve a problem fully, we encourage you to go for partial marks.

After joining the contest, you proceed to the Problems tab to begin. You can also go to Users if you wish to see the rankings.

We have listed below some advice as well as contest strategies:

  • Start from the beginning. Ties will be broken by the sum of times used to solve the problems starting from the beginning of the contest. The last submission time of your highest score will be used.
  • Remove all extra debugging code and/or input prompts from your code before submitting. The judge is very strict — most of the time, it requires your output to match exactly.
  • Do not pause program execution at the end. The judging process is automated. You should use stdin / stdout to perform input / output, respectively.
  • It is guaranteed that all the problems will be solvable with C++.

Don't panic. Good luck!

Problems

Problem Points AC Rate Users
VM7WC '16 #3 Bronze - Shahir-in-a-Box 3 45.3% 180
VM7WC '16 #3 Silver - Can Shahir even get there?! 5 37.7% 1509
VM7WC '16 #3 Gold - Hello, Officer. 10 41.8% 473

Comments


  • 0
    r3mark  commented on Jan. 21, 2016, 3:42 a.m.

    I remember there being something about graphs a few days ago.


    • 1
      JeffreyZ  commented on Jan. 21, 2016, 8:21 p.m.

      Yeah, the actual promposal inspired me.