REMOVE PENALITY or CHANGE JUDGE FOR FIRST QUESTION (DISCSHOP)||ACM ICPC19

codebangbang · October 18, 2019, 10:26pm

yes this should be corrected … codechef please see to this

anon70990627 · October 18, 2019, 10:28pm

But the statement told something else, that we can keep 0s, but I partially agree with you

horse_123 · October 18, 2019, 10:28pm

but it said the answer could have leading zeroes too my dear coder whihch is totally misleading

sanjit_coder · October 18, 2019, 10:35pm

Yeah, it wasn’t fair.

horse_123 · October 18, 2019, 10:40pm

yep…it is totally a deciding factor for our college for regionals

l_returns · October 19, 2019, 2:56am

How can you guarantee that all penalties in question 1 is due to problem statement only ? There will be some teams who got penalties due to some other reason.
Another solution is change judge. Give AC to both ( with leading zeroes and without leading zeroes )

ankur314 · October 19, 2019, 3:00am

The only part not clear was leading zeros right? But one may have got that by seeing examples. There was an example case which clarified it, and ofcourse teams would have run their code on example. Dude, there are more serious problems in this contest like wrong testcases or wrong solutions. This problem is nothing compared to them.

avi141 · October 19, 2019, 3:31am

Exactly.
The sample test case did not have leading zeroes.

ishanmay8 · October 19, 2019, 3:38am

see here it is clearly mentioned that resulting number is allowed to have leading zeros . then the whole point of checking the test case is useless

ankur314 · October 19, 2019, 3:54am

Do you happen to have pic of the constraints of 4th question (PENS) ? If yes, can you please share it?

prince_gupta · October 19, 2019, 4:02am

The length of sting S to be constructed <= 10^6
Number of smaller strings K <= 10^5
Length of smaller strings <= 20
All strings consist of letters ‘a’…‘t’

kiraeternal · October 19, 2019, 4:07am

yea you are right spam cc

harshraj22 · October 19, 2019, 4:29am

Won’t it be better if instead of removing penalty, rejudging of first question is demanded ? Removing penalty would help even those who submitted WA. While rejudging won’t.

justanotherlad · October 19, 2019, 4:52am

If you got WA in P1, quite evidently you’re not a “pr0”, as the given test cases made it extremely clear what outputs they were expecting.
Run your code for the given test cases before submitting.
We solved P1 in 17mins with AC.

kiraeternal · October 19, 2019, 4:59am

dude we do run the test cases but it was clearly mentioned leading zeroes are allowed "dats why we didnt changed our code for that

anon7773406 · October 19, 2019, 5:06am

Yes. It hurts so much, they put conflicting things in the last lines and to change that at the 50th minute is something expected from novice platforms not codechef. And it is not even any ordinary contest, it is my dream , ACM ICPC. Please remove penalty from the 1st question.

anon7773406 · October 19, 2019, 5:09am

but it was mentioned that answer may cintain leading zeroes and we did not care for it. But later they said, output should not have leading zeroes. I think it nothing related to anyone being a pro . Do not brag of yourself being one.

Codechef has to remove penalty because it was due to its own ignorance.

anon7773406 · October 19, 2019, 5:10am

Fairly good idea.

anon7773406 · October 19, 2019, 5:12am

yeah right, let us spam CC and force them to remove the penalty

harshil21 · October 19, 2019, 6:24am

We had the question written in 10 mins and second quick too …
But, leading zeros got us penalty of 1 hr . So, kindly REJUDGE the question or DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT … I know about the test case but as we were unclear we thought both the answers would be accepted .
There should be some criteria for us .
Please spam CC .