Duck Contest

Contest Guide

Timing

The contest started at 8:16 p.m. AEST on Thursday 2nd July.

The contest ended at 8:16 p.m. AEST on Thursday 2nd July. No further submissions will be accepted.

Task Types and Difficulties

All tasks require you to be able to write a simple program in one of the following languages.

  • C: GCC 12.2.0 with flags -O2 -std=c17 -lm
  • C++: GCC 12.2.0 with flags -O2 -std=c++17
  • Python: CPython 3.11.2
  • PyPy: Python 3.9.16 (PyPy 7.3.11)

The tasks are sorted roughly by increasing difficulty, and may have subtasks which award partial points for solving a simplified version of the problem.

Submissions and Scoring

For each task, only your best scoring submission will count, so feel free to submit as much as you want! However, for each task, you will not be able to submit more than once per minute, or more than 50 times per day.

Your total score for the contest is the sum of your scores for each task.