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bbkr
Jul '06

i want to say thanks to SPOJ team for implementing this kind of ranking.

i've just finished KAMIL task (24 chars) waiting for more smile

maybe someone will make whole contest with source length rankings in the future??

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mauke
Jul '06

If you liked KAMIL, try SIZECON (or beat my 80-char C solution for KAMIL). smiley

bbkr
Jul '06

SIZECON is corrupted (someone guessed the result).

good source-length-ranked task should have required result LONGER than allowed source length, to make result guessing worthless.

mauke
Jul '06

Are you sure? I can't find any TEXT solution (it would be too long anyway). My 7-char Perl solution does compute the right result for any input. I don't see how guessing the right solution would improve the score.

On the other hand, there are a few successful TEXT submissions for KAMIL. They're >= 40 chars though, so again no serious challenge for a good perl script.

noix
Jul '06

SPOJ has gained "multiple tests" some time ago, so it's trivial to deal with guessing output now. (The same program can be run on a few different input/output pairs)

All is in problemsetters' hands...

3 years later
kokosek
Feb '10

@bbkr - I made such a contest. Although I have to change ranking because for each problem it gives 1 point and I want to make rank with such a formula:
10*best_score/your_score

All languages are available in it, although whitespaces are included (in you wanted to use Whitespace wink ).

That's url: https://spoj.pl/SHORTEN4
Enjoy. smile