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What are your silliest mistakes at the bigger stages
By fkndonttrespass, history, 8 days ago, In English

I completely ruined this year's ICPC prelims. Gave away penalties, wrong answers due to precision issues, used '=' where I had to use '+='. Maybe hearing of worse mistakes would make me feel better?

 
 
 
 
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My silliest mistake. in problem they said bitwise exclusive or and I understood that it was bitwise or.In fact it is xor.

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We were participating in ICPC style contest. There was a task with decimal numbers that my teammate was fast to solve. However, it got WA. He then tried to debug but nothing. Later I was also debugging it but still nothing. Like 5 minutes before the end of the contest I notice that set precision is missing. We take the first code we submitted, add set precision and it gets AC. That costed us at least like 300 penalty and probably more, which led to us not getting bronze.

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I was there at the IOI contest and I didn't read the memory and time limit of the problem due to which I implemented a solution which would not work in the later test cases, which wasted a lot more time and I lost confidence and will to further solve and screwed the entire 5-hour long contest

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