In the march challenge, solutions for the problem “Random Decreasing Function” have been accepted that take more than 30 seconds but the given time limit is 2 seconds. This is well over 2X time(4 seconds) allowed for java .
@nikunjbanka : There are multiple test files for each question . The time limit applies to one input file . So if your solution takes more than time limit on any single test file then you will get time limit exceeded ( for eg . for RDF you may get a message TLE , Time taken = 2.01 seconds ) . That means your solution failed to complete on a particular test file in 2 seconds and hence was killed and not accepted . The time shown for sucessful submissions is sum of time taken for all the input test files . So if there are 5 files and your solutions takes , 1.50 , 1.60 , 1.55 , 1.75 , 1.80 seconds for them , then your solution will be accepted and time taken will be shown as 8.20 seconds .
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