Re: Contest details updated

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jiri babor wrote:
> 
> 
> Derek, 
> 
> you wrote: "File 10 is just random bytes. Many are greater than #7F..."
> But the rule 13 states: "... The file will only contain bytes in the range #00
> - #7F..."
> 
> This is manifestly unfair!

Yep, absolutely unfair. No argument there.

However, its always a reasonable expectation that programs should be able to
handle
bad data. If a submission fails to deal with this type of bad file, it will
cost you at most one point out of 460. Not a big penalty. Certainly not
as big a penalty as one would get in real life coding.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia

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