Southwestern European Regional Contest Problem Set 1996
On this page you will find the complete problem set of the 1996 contest.
It even includes the complete set of test data used during the contest,
sample solutions for each problem and comments from the chief judge. For
completeness, the same information is also provided for the practice session
problem set.
SWERC'96 Problem Set
This year's problem set was compiled by Erich Oswald (Chief Judge) from
contributions by Matthias Ruhl, Manuel Bleichenbacher, and Rolf Strebel.
(Additional problems have been submitted by Hans Domjan, Miguel Revilla,
and Robin O'Leary.)
If you would like to participate in next year's contest, it might be
a good idea to have a look at the problems posed this year (or any other
year, for that manner). Solving problems from past contests is likely to
improve your chances of winning a regional contest.
The problem set is available in the following formats:
Practice Session Problem Set
The practice problem set was used for the practice session, where the teams
could get accustomed to our contest environment, i.e. to computers, editors,
compilers, and the problem submission system. The problems themselves are
easy to solve and not much of a challenge. They were taken from the practice
session two years ago and were only modified to be consistent with the
general format used in the real problem set.
The practice problem set is available in the following formats:
Comments on the Problem Set
The Chief Judge's comments on the problem set give you some insights into
the problems and explain what pitfalls to avoid and how to solve the problems.
Of course you'll learn more if you first try the problems yourself.
Test Data, Sample Solutions and Test Programs
You can have it all. Just download the gzip-compressed contest archive
, decompress and unarchive it on your local machine and rebuild the programs
and test data. The archive includes at least one sample solution for every
problem, the test input, and test output files or programs for checking
the output. For completeness sake, the practice
session archive (1.4 kByte) is also available in the same format.
Comments and Questions about the problem set are always welcome. Just
send me email.
The Southwestern European Regional Programming Contest
1996 was sponsored
by Microsoft
and supported by Union
Bank of Switzerland
Last update: November 28, 1996 (eos).