contest b4 questions

[miclaro]

1) will there be many problems in one file or only one? (map, routes)

2) allways uppercase?

3) max cost (or what number can i use for infinite?)

that's it,
this answered and i send my code...

ps: can i sugest for future contest a form for uploading the zip file, instead of sending the mail, i could easily see that que submit was done ok...
(it could be the A5 contest...)

bye.

[stuart]

In answer to your questions:

1. No, just the one in a file.
2. Well, as I said in an other post a=A, its not case sensitive.
3. ??? - not sure what your meaning here, please explain.


- I have been looking to have a contest submit form, but havn't got round to doing one yet. Thanks for your suggestion though

Stuart

[lrutledge]

I'd like to know the answer to question number 3 also. I believe the question is what is the maximum value we should expect for a route length? With A* path finding algorithms you assign an "infinity" value to unused node's that is larger than the largest expected value (i.e. 32767).

Thanks,
Larry

[cagrET]

i dont know if find time to participate in this contest, so ppl u have chance to win
(probably :])

have fun all

[miclaro]

Originally posted by lrutledge@Jul 30 2003, 08:01 PM
I'd like to know the answer to question number 3 also. I believe the question is what is the maximum value we should expect for a route length? With A* path finding algorithms you assign an "infinity" value to unused node's that is larger than the largest expected value (i.e. 32767).

Thanks,
Larry

that's what i meant:

3) what is the maximum cost to expect.

and now a general contest question:
4) can i participate with 2 scripts or it's only 1 script per user?

i mean this, becouse i can have 2 kind of scripts:
a) the perfect solution, take a long time
B) the quickest, imperfect one.
so depending on the input i could win with a) or B)....
it would be nice to submit 2 versions...

[ciaccia]

Originally posted by miclaro@Jul 31 2003, 12:52 AM
4) can i participate with 2 scripts or it's only 1 script per user?

I don't think it would be fair to let people partecipate with more than one script, so I'm quite sure it is not allowed

[stuart]

Originally posted by miclaro+Jul 31 2003, 12:52 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (miclaro @ Jul 31 2003, 12:52 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--lrutledge@Jul 30 2003, 08:01 PM
I'd like to know the answer to question number 3 also. I believe the question is what is the maximum value we should expect for a route length? With A* path finding algorithms you assign an "infinity" value to unused node's that is larger than the largest expected value (i.e. 32767).

Thanks,
Larry

that's what i meant:

3) what is the maximum cost to expect.

and now a general contest question:
4) can i participate with 2 scripts or it's only 1 script per user?

i mean this, becouse i can have 2 kind of scripts:
a) the perfect solution, take a long time
B) the quickest, imperfect one.
so depending on the input i could win with a) or B)....
it would be nice to submit 2 versions... [/b][/quote]
OK I see know -

Well I can't give you the exact figure but I guess no more than if you use 1000 as a max you will be fine
I don't intent having a huge map.

As for your other question about submittions per user - only one entry per user is the only way, otherwise everyone could submit 10 seperate methods and that would suck in many ways

Hope this helps
-stuart

[jayant]

Distances wont be negetive, so use any negetive value as infinity