Plagiarism during long challenge!

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Why was my post flagged? Now that the contest is over, you can verify that the solution to the challenge problem was somehow leaked since everyone at #20 has submitted the exact solution in C#: here you go.

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Jesus first the video editorials in live contests and now this? One glance in all of their submission history can tell their cheating.
I hope they don’t make it unrated because of these stupid ppl. I’ve been trying to solve these for 10 straight days and I’m so close to 5 stars

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Exactly! I’ve worked hard this time (especially for the challenge problem), and it demotivates a little if the rank list is compromised like this.

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Exactly…
I request you guys to report this channel on youtube: Scholar Panda - YouTube

He has made video solutions of the problems before the contest ended… has more than 700+ views on all 3 videos of 1st 3 problems of div1…

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Video editorials? These morons, why do they’ve to do this! No wonder so many 700+ scores this time :pensive:

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yep this decreases moral of one who is doing all hardwork to get a single AC .but guys Plagiarism only help in these challenges not in real life interviews ,so keep your confidence high.

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Completely agreed! Many people came out very far in the rank list time, some of the deserving ones got -ve rating including me.

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His name is joydip panda.

https://www.codechef.com/users/joydip1234
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joydip-panda-226870133/?originalSubdomain=in

He has posted solutions in Hackerearth Circuits challenges too. There he was banned for 15 days. Now he started in Codechef . Oh my god. He always does this.

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lol and bro congo now you are 5 star coder :heart_eyes::heart_eyes:

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Thanks bro <3

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Plagiarism can be detected by Codechef right?

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Yes, they’ll eventually be detected… I just wanted to know why did they flagged my post as inappropriate when cheating is what’s really inappropriate here :roll_eyes:

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By the way, can you explain your solution to Cubic Virus?

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Huh! You don’t have to worry about who/why flagged. As your link says, 4 to 5 people’s have involved in plagiarism. I suppose a post gets deleted if X number of people’s flags it (X can be 5, not sure).

I hope you know now :stuck_out_tongue:

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Do you mean me?

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Yes Abraham, that’s your name right?

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Yeah. My code basically sorts a single dimension at a time. Each dimension has a 2D matrix representing the infected and non infected cells.

I sort these in such a way that i’th 2D matrix infects minimum in (i + 1)th 2D matrix. I couldn’t do this perfectly though.

I try out different permutations of dimensions (row-column-layer, column-row-layer, etc), to decide which dimension I should sort first. And find out which of these give the minimum infections at the end.

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Thanks, that’s elegant. And, congratulations on the rank :slightly_smiling_face:

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Because you telling solution is leaked encourages other people to hunt for it and promotes cheating. Why not just email it to help@codechef.com ?

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If I recall, someone flagged your post as inappropriate to be shared during contest.

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