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IOI first contest

Posted by Martin Orr on Saturday, 20 August 2005 at 14:17

The first IOI competition was this morning. These competitions are five hours at a computer, during which you have to write programs to solve three mathematical problems. Because they are all marked automatically, the results are available very fast. For those who were confused by the IMO scoring, this is even simpler: 100 points for each problem. I scored full marks on 2 problems and 9 on the third. The rest of the Irish team: Cian 100, Alex 21, Stephen 15. Mark Thompson from the UK got 250.

-- Martin

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Departure for IOI

Posted by Martin Orr on Tuesday, 16 August 2005 at 10:12

It's a long time since I've posted here - I suppose it's a habit you need to keep up. Anyway I don't think I have had much to post about. I have spent a lot of my time preparing for the IOI. We do a lot of training for the Maths Olympiad which I think is very beneficial and I have never done much informatics training, so I decided I would work hard on that for a few weeks. I am just about to leave to go to Dublin for a few days, before heading to Poland for the Olympiad on Thursday.

-- Martin

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