Archive for the “Problem of the Week” category
Meeting Summary – 9/26/11
by MG Chi on September 26, 2011
The officer team presented the PotW (Problem of the Week) system. Everyone should participate in order to win cool prizes at the end of this semester! Today’s meeting slides that include this week’s PotW can be found here.
Problem of the Week – 11/22/10
by Jack Li on November 22, 2010
Farmer John needs to sell a chunk of his land. Unfortunately, the land he sells inevitably affects the N cows (1 <= N <= 100,000) that graze on it. Given the start point, Ps, and end point, Pe, of grazing (…)
Problem of the Week – 11/15/10
by Jack Li on November 15, 2010
You have many, many socks (up to 1,000,000, to be specific). Almost all your socks form into pairs by color, but there is 1 color that does not have a pair. Devise an algorithm to figure out which color lacks (…)
Problem of the Week – 10/18/10
by Jack Li on October 18, 2010
Denise the robot unicorn wants to bring her infamous infinitely large collection of fabulous items to school for show-and-tell. However, she can only carry a limited weight, so she wants to bring the most fabulous collection she can carry. There (…)
Problem of the Week – 10/4/10
by Jack Li on October 4, 2010
One day, Bob was looking out into the sky and had a sudden urge to measure the distances from the center of the Sun to each of the planets to the nearest Angstrom (10-10 m). He manages to build a (…)
Problem of the Week – 9/27/10
by Jack Li on September 27, 2010
Lynn Brook and Cuper Tino, two students, are interested in analyzing the results from a recent pie-eating competition. They are given the amount of pie, in grams, that each of 2011 competitors was able to eat. Cuper Tino, relying on (…)