Points in the Challenge Question(COVDSMPL)

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Does anyone knows why in Challenge Question, points rewarded are reduced after sometime??
Is it relative to the points scored by the highest one(in our case we have to minimise)?

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Because better and better solutions come up during the course and hence your score(which is relative to best existing solution) decreases.

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In the constraints of challenge problem it is written N=60
Does it mean that it will always be 60 and not less than 60??

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Yeah

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ok thnx!

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Thanks mate!! But they don’t have particular solutions??.. Like always, they share the editorials…

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No, there is no particular solution, that is why it is tie breaker. The one who optimizes more gets better points. Editorial is there regarding what all approaches can be possible.

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the score is relative, so your initial points decrease if an answer better than yours is submitted later

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then why it asking for taking input N

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Generally in challenge problems, for different test files the constraints are fixed but different. Like 2 test files has N=100, 3 test files have N=500 and so on.
In this case all test files have fixed values. They are given only to define the problem more formally. This is what I think.

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Can any one tell me do we have to calculate the score by our self or the grader will do it on its own .

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@chetan_9 the online judge does that.