Competition for programmers №4

    The ttools.ru project announces a contest for programmers No. 4 !
    You can read about the project’s contests in the “ Competitions ” section of the ttools.ru blog.
    About the contest number 4

    task : The previous task number 3 contest was quickly solved by the participants 100%. A solution method has been demonstrated much simpler than anticipated. This happened thanks to the initial data of the problem, allowing such an opportunity and quick wits of the participants. In general, such unexpected turns of events are pleasing, this adds intrigue, but at the same time makes it more careful to draw up tasks and prepare initial data. This time I propose to re-solve the problem of the  contest №3, but with new source data, which (I hope) will make the task exactly what was originally intended

    Sponsors:

    The sponsor of this competition is the Stock Technologies company , the developer of SAT software, which is used to create, test and operate trading robots for Quik, SmartCOM and Plaza-2.
    The sponsor provides a cash prize to the winner of the contest No. 4 in the amount of 2500 rubles.


    Plan of the competition:

    on June 27, 2011 at 14.00 Moscow time, the task text will be published on ttools.ru.
    The source data for the task is the file attached to the text of the task. For the fourth contest, the file will be binary.
    You can solve the problem in any convenient programming language.
    The result of solving the problem is a file whose contents are, with a certain degree of accuracy, the correct answer. The answer option is the right decision for a certain share (from 0 to 100%). The source code of the decision algorithm is not required from the participant.
    The competition is considered completed after the announcement of the completion of the competition, after which the answers will not be accepted. The completion of the competition will be announced no later than a week after its start. Processing of answers will be made once a day. The results of the competition (list of participants who sent the right decision) and the winner will be announced within one day from the end of the competition.
    The competition provides for a cash prize to the winner in the amount of 2500 rubles, in addition, a cash prize for the maximum number of solved competitive problems in the amount of 5000 rubles is provided. The result will be calculated based on the results of 10 competitions.

    Competition rules:

    Anyone can take part in the competition.
    Special registration for the competition is not required. Confirmation of participation in the competition is the answer option in the appendix to the letter to the email address konkurs@ttools.ru. Important:Send the response file not in the archive, the file name must match your email address and have the extension .dat. Those. if your email address is “ivan65535@yandex.ru”, then the file in the application should be named “ivan65535@yandex.ru.dat”. Responses will be processed automatically and other letters to this address will be ignored.
    Each participant can make up to three attempts. The best of the first three decisions will be counted.
    The winner is one participant whose decision is the most accurate and fastest.

    The text of the assignment and all the necessary initial data of the competition

    will be published on the website ttools.ru on Monday, June 27, 2011 at 14.00 Moscow time.


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