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cyclops
Aug '10

Hi, I'm new here and am confused by a time limit.

Classical problem #1296 SUMFOUR5 states that the time limit is 10s.

When looking at accepted submissions, most ran in more than 10s. At the time of this post, only 31 people stayed within 10s, and the slowest accepted submission has time 34.09s. This doesn't seem right?

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gooey_kablooie_sof
Aug '10

Time limit is 10 seconds for one input file only. Some problems have multiple input files (like SUMFOUR, ABCDEF etc). The time displayed at the end is the sum of running times taken for all input files.

cyclops
Aug '10

Oh okay, so this isn't really a bug then, just something to confuse newcomers (or maybe there was some introductory material I didn't read carefully enough that covers this?). Thanks for clearing that up. smile

gooey_kablooie_sof
Aug '10

There is a short description that can be found here5

cyclops
Aug '10

Thanks. So this thread doesn't belong in the "Bugs" subforum, I'm not sure if a mod should move it; also not sure how to mark it as [SOLVED] like is possible in some other forums; seems like editing the first post to change the subject might not show on the main listing.