CSUS Programming Contest Control System
Version 8.6 20050510 00 (May 10th, 2005 7:55pm)
Date: Mon Nov 14 22:58:18 CST 2005
Clarification Info 
There are 52 clars.

(0) Clarification 13|team ACU|
At Sat Nov 12 15:33:16 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 211|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: Would the correct expansion for "unruntion" be "the process of not runing" or "not the process of runing"?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(1) Clarification 7|team OC Eagles|
At Sat Nov 12 13:41:48 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 99|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: do the words ending in 'tion' need to have a 'te' at the end when the definition is printed?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(2) Clarification 12|team #include < broncs.h >|
At Sat Nov 12 14:38:35 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 156|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: General|

Question: we have already tried several cases, and they seem to be ok. I don't know if it is a matter of possition or space. Would you please clear this for us?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(3) Clarification 6|team ASU Rams I|
At Sat Nov 12 13:12:49 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 70|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: If a word consists of only a prefix and a suffix (i.e. "antier"), should the output process the prefix only (i.e. "against er"), the suffix only (i.e. "one who antis"), or neither (i.e. "antier")?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(4) Clarification 11|team UTA White|
At Sat Nov 12 14:17:09 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 135|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: Janken Tactics|

Question: do we have to consider straight lines only?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(5) Clarification 5|team OC Eagles|
At Sat Nov 12 13:06:51 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 64|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: General|

Question: Our test compiler seems to be having a problem. Cout won't print unless there's an endl at the end of the statement;|

Answer: Ask a monitor or runner for help.|


(6) Clarification 10|team OC Eagles|
At Sat Nov 12 13:57:59 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 115|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: should we accomdate for words like "posting" where "post" looks like a prefix but isn't?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(7) Clarification 4|team Crazy 8088s|
At Sat Nov 12 12:58:05 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 56|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: Jetpack Sniper 3000 Fragfest Extreme|

Question: In the sample input, we are given coordinates of (10, 10, 10), but the map only ranges from 0-9.  What is the correct sample input?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(8) Clarification 3|team OC Eagles|
At Sat Nov 12 12:48:14 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 46|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: Artificial Strife|

Question: For the input of live/birth rules, can they always be expect to be in ascending order?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(9) Clarification 2|team The Italian Cron Job|
At Sat Nov 12 12:30:19 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 28|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: What do we do with lines after n+1?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(10) Clarification 1|team Crazy 8088s|
At Sat Nov 12 12:07:16 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 5|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams true|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: It's My Derivative|

Question: Is x considered an integer or a real?|

Answer: An integer.|


(11) Clarification 17|team The Italian Cron Job|
At Sat Nov 12 16:26:47 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 264|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: Janken Tactics|

Question: Can a single piece have multiple moves?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(12) Clarification 16|team Alt22|
At Sat Nov 12 16:24:41 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 262|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: General|

Question: Can you explain further?

Test data comes up correctly.
For example if we have the word poster do you want the output to read:
after <post> one who <post>s
or after one who <post>s
|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(13) Clarification 15|team Dakota Debuggers|
At Sat Nov 12 16:06:27 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 244|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: Can there be multiple prefixes and postfixes?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(14) Clarification 9|team import edu.utpa.Broncs;|
At Sat Nov 12 13:51:11 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 109|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams true|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: It's My Derivative|

Question: Is zero considered a positive/negative number, or neither?|

Answer: For purposes of display, consider zero a positive integer.|


(15) Clarification 14|team Alt22|
At Sat Nov 12 16:03:36 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 241|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: General|

Question: Program compiles on our system using 
g++ filename.cpp

and ran using 
a.out < input.dat > output.dat - writes correctly to output.dat
a.out < input.dat                     - writes correctly to screen

we tested it and it ran correctly, then submitted it and recived the 
response: no - compilation error|

Answer: We do the same thing and get the following output:

test.cpp:8: error: initializer fails to determine size of ÔprefÕ
test.cpp:9: error: initializer fails to determine size of ÔprefMeanÕ
test.cpp:11: error: initializer fails to determine size of ÔsuffÕ
test.cpp:12: error: initializer fails to determine size of ÔsuffMeanÕ
|


(16) Clarification 8|team ORU Blue|
At Sat Nov 12 13:48:00 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 105|
Site 3|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111174416|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: Under the suffix rules "tion" is removed and replaced with "ing".  Shouldn't it be "ting" instead?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(17) Clarification 30|team Frogs|
At Sat Nov 12 16:32:03 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 267|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: It's My Derivative|

Question: Can a derivative have a negative exponent?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(18) Clarification 14|team Alt49|
At Sat Nov 12 13:47:49 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 103|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: General|

Question: Can you provide help on how to process each line in standard input? We have a class that solves one of our problems, but we do not know how to redirect input into our class.|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(19) Clarification 22|team More Parentheses!|
At Sat Nov 12 15:38:00 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 213|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: for the postfix -er, should the word sustain a trailing e

ex. producer -> one who produces vs. one who producs|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(20) Clarification 13|team Coach56|
At Sat Nov 12 13:42:03 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 97|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Artificial Strife|

Question: Is a diagonal cell a "neighbor"?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(21) Clarification 21|team Comets|
At Sat Nov 12 15:37:23 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 213|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams true|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Janken Tactics|

Question: Can a unit to be moved begin adjacent to an enemy unit?|

Answer: Yes.|


(22) Clarification 12|team Orange|
At Sat Nov 12 13:32:02 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 87|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: General|

Question: for problem defining moment, we received a YES and a NO, slightly confsued.|

Answer: We have rejudged your problem..|


(23) Clarification 20|team Shammah Agee|
At Sat Nov 12 14:38:31 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 154|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Jetpack Sniper 3000 Fragfest Extreme|

Question: Is there a distance of 1 between the buildings?
|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(24) Clarification 9|team Crazy 1011000 (Trinity)|
At Sat Nov 12 13:09:05 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 64|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: are words that initially end in the same letters as the suffixes being tested?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(25) Clarification 11|team Texas A&M Maroon|
At Sat Nov 12 13:14:26 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 70|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Bingo!|

Question: Are patterns allowed to overlap each other?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(26) Clarification 8|team Texas A&M Aggies|
At Sat Nov 12 13:01:34 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 57|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams true|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: General|

Question: Where are the problems located online?|

Answer: http://c1/real/|


(27) Clarification 10|team ECU Tigers|
At Sat Nov 12 13:09:56 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 65|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: just to make sure, and I know it says in the problem def, the first line of the input file has the number of words to read in and is actually in the input file|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(28) Clarification 7|team Frogs|
At Sat Nov 12 12:53:24 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 49|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: The instructions say that suffixes should be expanded last but in your sample output, "uninforming" expands suffix first and prefix last returning "not to actively inform". So which is it?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(29) Clarification 6|team CSEagles|
At Sat Nov 12 12:42:52 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 38|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: General|

Question: On ARTIFICIAL STRIFE
At the end of the SAMPLE INPUT
there is a numeral 4 on its own line;
what is the 4
as it is not mentioned in the input description|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(30) Clarification 5|team s/winners/UNT/gi|
At Sat Nov 12 12:41:29 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 37|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams true|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Artificial Strife|

Question: Area ll species sequential characters from A on up?  Can "#" be one?  Can "A" and "Z" be species for only two kinds?|

Answer: The species are capital letters of the alphabet, starting at A and skipping no letters.|


(31) Clarification 4|team Burnt Orange Machine Bandits|
At Sat Nov 12 12:39:42 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 35|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams true|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: Will all words be in lower case?|

Answer: Yes|


(32) Clarification 3|team Delta Force|
At Sat Nov 12 12:34:13 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 30|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: General|

Question: problem: defining moment

Will a test word like "read" be used?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(33) Clarification 2|team Texas A&M Aggies|
At Sat Nov 12 12:31:17 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 27|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams true|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Plinko|

Question: Are all Plinko boards the same in layout as the examples given (4 rows, 5 start/end columns)?|

Answer: All Plinko boards have the same layout as the example.|


(34) Clarification 1|team Coach55|
At Sat Nov 12 12:16:53 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 12|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams true|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Plinko|

Question: Does the number of paths P include paths that have 0% odds or not?  For example, there might be a possible path in a fair plinko board that involves a bounce that has 0% change on an unfair board.  Should that path be counted? |

Answer: Do not count paths that have zero probability.|


(35) Clarification 29|team Rice Blue|
At Sat Nov 12 16:14:40 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 250|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Janken Tactics|

Question: In Janken, can a unit move more than once per turn?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(36) Clarification 28|team Nicholls State University|
At Sat Nov 12 16:04:23 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 240|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: Do we have to account for root words that end in 'e'? Example: believer == one who believes.|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(37) Clarification 19|team s/winners/UNT/gi|
At Sat Nov 12 14:27:30 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 143|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: Given a case where either a prefix OR a suffix could be used but NOT both, should prefix or suffix be chosen?  For example... uner|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(38) Clarification 27|team s/winners/UNT/gi|
At Sat Nov 12 16:00:53 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 236|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams true|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: Are all words guaranteed to contain ONLY alphabetic characters?|

Answer: Yes.|


(39) Clarification 34|team Lamar Cardinal|
At Sat Nov 12 16:57:52 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 293|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: can you tell me for which input our program is not working|

Answer: No.|


(40) Clarification 18|team Texas A&M Aggies|
At Sat Nov 12 14:20:12 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 136|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams true|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: It's My Derivative|

Question: will the input ever contain a coefficient of 0?|

Answer: No.|


(41) Clarification 26|team s/winners/UNT/gi|
At Sat Nov 12 15:59:40 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 235|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: General|

Question: If a program can parse out either a suffix OR a prefix, should the suffix have precidence since "suffixes are tied more tightly to their root word" or does that simply imply that prefixes are expanded first when BOTH are possible?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(42) Clarification 33|team Alt47|
At Sat Nov 12 16:48:37 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 284|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams true|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: General|

Question: Do compile-time warnings count as errors?|

Answer: No|


(43) Clarification 17|team Auburn Orange|
At Sat Nov 12 14:16:06 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 131|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Artificial Strife|

Question: what if a cell is alive but it has the number of cell to bring a dead cell alive, does that cell stay alive or become dead?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(44) Clarification 25|team Millsaps Purple|
At Sat Nov 12 15:45:41 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 221|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: While we have submitted multiple times, the answer comes back as no due to a run-time error.  However, every test case we can think of complies and runs correctly on the computer we are using.  Can you help?|

Answer: No.|


(45) Clarification 32|team Comets|
At Sat Nov 12 16:48:18 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 284|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams true|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Janken Tactics|

Question: Are idempotent moves (i.e. from D5 to D5) valid if a unit occupies D5?|

Answer: There are no idempotent moves.|


(46) Clarification 16|team ECU Tigers|
At Sat Nov 12 14:08:56 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 124|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: General|

Question: i have a input.txt in the same directory as my source and my program uses my source code as input to the program when i use test|

Answer: Help is on the way.|


(47) Clarification 24|team Nicholls State University|
At Sat Nov 12 15:45:24 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 221|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Defining Moment|

Question: What prefix and suffix words should be defined?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(48) Clarification 31|team UT Tyler Patriots Orange|
At Sat Nov 12 16:32:59 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 268|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Jetpack Sniper 3000 Fragfest Extreme|

Question: If the blocks are 10x10 than the last index would be 9, Is (10,10,10) possible?|

Answer: No Response, read problem statement.|


(49) Clarification 15|team Alt49|
At Sat Nov 12 14:07:14 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 123|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams false|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: General|

Question: Can you tell what class in Java allows us to access data in standard input?|

Answer: I'm sorry, but no.  We cannot assist your team during the contest.  It would be unfair to other teams.|


(50) Clarification 23|team Comets|
At Sat Nov 12 15:40:46 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 216|
Site 2|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams true|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051110214224|
Problem: Janken Tactics|

Question: If a unit begins adjacent to a stronger enemy, is moving away valid?|

Answer: The move away is not, by itself, invalid.|


(51) Clarification 1|team Judge 5|
At Sat Nov 12 11:45:27 CST 2005|
Elapsed: 0|
Site 1|
Answered true|Selected false|toAllTeams true|getProxyServerId 0|InternalId ReSetId20051111003222|
Problem: Pegs|

Question: Are diagonal jumps allowed?|

Answer: No.|



Settings revised/changed 391 times. (DBL=13)
Done at Mon Nov 14 22:58:20 CST 2005
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