Problem Clarifications

This is an archive of the judge's response to questions on the problems. You should have received an email with the response already. This is available just in case the email got tossed to the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky.

  1. Problem 1
  2. Problem 2
  3. Problem 3
  4. Problem 4
  5. Problem 5
  6. Problem 6

Problem 1

Problem 2

Problem 3

 I want to clear something up with problem 3 so you don't make the problem harder than it is. You are dealing with doubles, so you need to be careful with them. The problem gives you a guide on how to handle the floating point numbers. Note, for instance, it does tells you that "0.2" equates to 0.66666666. You will need that little tidbit to avoid failing the submission (the number of 6's you use is somewhat arbitrary, but you have to use enough so that the fractional part of the era comes out correctly; using something like 0.66 will fail).

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Problem 4

Problem 5

 - adding one letter
- removing one letter
- changing one letter to another
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- The first two are obvious. Does the 3rd fact imply that as is switched to
- sa in 2 moves, or can they be swapped for a 1 move switch?

as to sa is 2 moves. Transposing is not permitted for this version of the problem.
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Problem 6