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Hello! I'm Daniel Ambort, from Santa Fe, Argentina.

I am teaching Algorithms and Data Structures in the 1st year of the UTN FRSF.

I use spoj.com since 4-5 years, but today I am having a really strange behaviour with this problem:
http://www.spoj.com/problems/CAMPA2/

This is a bug?

Locally, the following two codes generate exactly the same output for the three test cases in the input. But the first one is accepted, and the second one gets a TLE.....
Again, locally they execute fast (under 2 seconds).

The first code is:
SPOJ submission 15375334

and the second code is:
SPOJ submission 15375309

I find out this problem when a student submited something very similar to the second code and the got a TLE. The only difference between them are the way is contructed the while to handle the input (but the behaviour is the same).

Could you take a look at this issue?

I tried with different versions of C++ and the problem is present in all of them.

Here is the first code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <math.h>
 
using namespace std;
 
int campa(int ms){
    if (ms>0) 
        return 1 + campa(ms-15);
    else return 0;}
 
int main() {
    int hova, miva, hova2, miva2;
     
    while(cin >> hova >> miva >> hova2 >> miva2  && (hova ||miva|| hova2 || miva2)){                
        int aux= campa(15 * ( ceil( miva2 % 15 / 15.0) + miva2 / 15 - ceil( miva / 15.0) ) + 60 * ( hova2 - hova ) - 14);            
        cout<< aux <<endl;
    }
    
    return 0;
}

Here is the seconde code:

#include
#include
#include

using namespace std;

int campa(int ms){
if (ms>0)
return 1 + campa(ms-15);
else return 0;}

int main() {
int hova, miva, hova2, miva2;
cin>>hova>>miva>>hova2>>miva2;

   while (hova || miva || hova2 || miva2){     
       int aux= campa(15 * ( ceil( miva2 % 15 / 15.0) + miva2 / 15 - ceil( miva / 15.0) ) + 60 * ( hova2 - hova ) - 14;);        
       cout<< aux <<endl;
       cin>>hova>>miva>>hova2>>miva2;
   }

   return 0;

}

Thanks for your help!

Regards.
Daniel