Please have a look at these two submissions -
https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/47139233
https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/47138697
These both are the exact same codes, submitted in the same language, yet one is TLE, and the other is AC by a mile. Can anyone tell why is this happening? Thanks.
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It must be a bug in the CodeChef tester.@admin , please look into it.
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It is getting Weirder.
@admin could you kindly look into this issue?
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Here are my submissions to TOTSCR . Both are exactly the same codes. But one gives AC while the other gives TLE.
Submission 1
Submission 2
What’s happening?
Why was the time limit 0.5 Seconds and not 1 Seconds?
@admin , was that an Experiment?
If yes, why conduct experiments during Rated Contests?
The problem was however poorly constructed.
There were 2 problems with time limits 0.5 Seconds. Those time multipliers (5x for Python, 2x for Java etc) should have been updated. If a C or CPP so…
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