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Competitive Programming St Andrews Beta Contest 20

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About

This contest is open to everyone of all skill levels and is only around 60 minutes long. We are a small group of St Andrews students whose main intention is to improve our algorithmic and problem solving skills. This will prepare one for competitive programming competitions as well as help one ace technical coding interviews.

Follow us at Facebook and Linkedin. Analysis of past contests and stats can be found at https://github.com/Leader-board/St-Andrews-Competitive-Programming

There is no Contest 19. After last week's Contest 18, this week is Contest 20 to correct a historical synchronisation problem (now Contest n is the nth contest).

Prizes

This contest is intended to improve your programming and problem-solving skills, and hence there are no material prizes.

However, as we continue to grow, we may soon introduce prizes.

Rules

  • The creator of this contest is solely responsible for setting and communicating the eligibility requirements associated with prizes awarded to participants, as well as for procurement and distribution of all prizes. The contest creator holds HackerRank harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, costs, awards, settlements, orders, or fines.
  • Code directly from our platform, which supports over 30 languages. Learn more here.

Common sense. You are encouraged to start with the problem that you are most comfortable with, not necessarily in order. Every question is worth the same number of points.

Scoring

  • Each challenge has a pre-determined score. The maximum score obtainable is 90.
  • A participant’s score depends on the number of test cases a participant’s code submission successfully passes.
  • If a participant submits more than one solution per challenge, then the participant’s score will reflect the highest score achieved.
  • Participants are ranked by score. If two or more participants achieve the same score, then the tie is broken by the time taken to submit the last solution resulting in a higher score
  • Partial marking is enabled, and there is no penalty for an incorrect submission.

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