python coding contest

Simon Hengel simon at airlangen.de
Sun Dec 25 19:56:54 EST 2005


> Definitely, characters.  A high-granularity measure is essential to
> reduce the chance of ties.  Even so there may well be equal-first-place
> winners -- hope they're not solved in terms of first submission, since
> submitting at 14:00 UTC is WAY easier for Europe residents (residents of
> the Americas would have to go to bed VERY late, get up VERY early, or
> spend extra effort setting up cron jobs), and that would bias everything
> in a most unfair manner.

Not sure what to do about it, is there something more fair
than first come first serve?

Cheers, Simon

-- 
python coding contest - http://www.pycontest.net/



More information about the Python-list mailing list