April Fools Contest
Contest Guide
Timing
The contest started at 9 a.m. AEDT on Friday 3rd April.
The contest ended at 8:45 p.m. AEST on Tuesday 7th April. No further official submissions will be accepted.
Task Types and Difficulties
All tasks require you to be able to write a simple program in one of the following languages.
- C: GCC 12.2.0 with flags
-O2 -std=c17 -lm - C++: GCC 12.2.0 with flags
-O2 -std=c++17 - Python: CPython 3.11.2
- PyPy: Python 3.9.16 (PyPy 7.3.11)
The tasks are sorted roughly by increasing difficulty, and may have subtasks which award partial points for solving a simplified version of the problem.
Submissions and Scoring
For each task, only your best scoring submission will count, so feel free to submit as much as you want! However, for each task, you will not be able to submit more than once per minute, or more than 50 times per day.
Your total score for the contest is the sum of your scores for each task.
Announcement
8:05:31 p.m.
Late submissions have been enabled. This means that you can attempt the problems without your score contributing to the leaderboard. Thanks for participating!
Announcement
12:16:36 a.m.
Not April here, the data for the idiot sort has been fixed. all significant submissions have been rejudged
Announcement
3:10:21 p.m.
April here. I am here to fool you. Some problem statements have been updated.