Ad Infinitum - Math Programming Contest May'14

A 2 Day programming contest purely in mathematical domain.

The contest has ended

Welcome to May edition of Ad Infinitum (To Infinity), a programming competition purely in Mathematics domain.

We are happy to announce a new tie-breaking policy
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Problem Setters Anton Lunyov, Lalit Kundu, Praveen Dhinwa, Amit Pandey
Problem Tester Goutham Kobakini
You can code in the 20+ languages as mentioned here HackerRank Environment

To Infinity and Beyond

The Prizes

  • Top 10 contestants from global leaderboard will win exclusive HackerRank T-shirts.
  • Challenge winners : Top contestant from last 5 challenge will win "A Beautiful Mind" by Sylvia Nasar

Challenges


The contest hosts 8 challenges. First 3 Challenges will be easy. Next 5 will be based on good Mathematical concepts increasing in difficulty.
Problem Setters Anton Lunyov, Lalit Kundu, Praveen Dhinwa, Amit Pandey

Problem Testers : Goutham Kobakini
Problem Translators Chinese: wanbo, Russian: Tanya Romanova
Want to contribute problems? Mail to hackers@hackerrank.com with the subject "INFINITUM".

Details from Infinitum April'14

Infinitum April'14 had a whopping 459 participants out of 1516 who signed up for the contest and made 3114 submissions in total
Fastest Solver: Sugardorj : 5 Hours 5 Minutes
Most Accurate Solver: Uwi and Bayleef with 2 wrong submissions
Most Consistant Solver: spirit_dna with 46 Submissions

Rules

  • All the challenges will have a predetermined score.
  • This contest will appeal to programmers who're interested in Mathematical challenges
  • HackerRank admins decision will be final
  • Please refrain from discussing strategy during the contest.
  • Any case of code plagiarism will result in disqualification of both the users from the contest. We've a fairly good plagiarism detector that works at the opcode level.
  • You can code directly on our interface. We support 20 major languages. You can have a look at the environment in which we run your code
  • Sample code to print sum of two numbers in all major languages Samples

Infinitum April Winners