OpenEuphoria

Re: $100 Contest Question

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Mar 03, 2002
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Hi Ray,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Smith" <smithr at ix.net.au>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: $100 Contest Question


>
>
> Robert Craig wrote:
>
> > On problem #2 you must use Junko's dictionary (word list),
> > because I will be determining correctness based on
> > the words in that particular dictionary. If you want to reformat
> > her file into a different file, that's fine, but the time that it
> > takes to do that will be included in your total time.
>
> I've just wasted a weekend of programming!!!!
>

All Robert is saying here, is that at some point in the execution of the
comp#2 program, you must use Junko's file 'as is' to get the list of words
that will be used to test the program against. You are perfectly free to
reformat that DATA in your program to help speed things up. I think what
Robert is getting at is that for comp#2, you cannot use a different file as
the SOURCE of the word list. Junko's file is the only SOURCE of words
permitted. If you want to create a new file based on her's, you can. The
time to do that will be included in the test time though.

> Robert Craig wrote in message:
>
http://www.topica.com/lists/EUforum/read/message.html?mid=1709760866&sort=d&
start=10864
>
>
> For problem #3, you can change the input word list if you want.
> For #2 you must use Junko's list as is.
>
> NOTE THE "as is"  !!!!
>
> after I specifically asked the question:
> >Is the time to load the database part of the calculated time to
> >decipher the sentence? If it is can we re-organise the
> >database in a particular order to help the load time.
> >ie. if we create some new hash scheme can we re-order the table to
> >make the load time faster and therefore reduce total decipher time.
>
> I don't mind the rules being manipulated for cases that haven't
> already been discussed but it's frustrating when the rules change
> from something that has already been said!
>

Comp #2 is NOT a deciphering exercise. That is for comp#3. In comp#2 it is a
pattern matching exercise and that must use Junko's file. For comp#3 you do
not have to use Junko's file in any way, shape or form.

I can understand your frustration though, because my first attempt at comp#2
also used a reformatted version of Junko's file. I did that because in the
original competition rules, it didn't prohibit doing that. Only after I
submitted it to Robert did the rules change. But I figure that's pretty
real-world behaviour - we have customers changing the system specifications
constantly while we are developing the system.

-----
Derek.