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  I achieved a rank of 30 in match-2. But I then felt saturated seeing everyone apply same old tricks. (They posted the solutions :p )
  

  Saturday, February 24, 2007 5:03 PM
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  thanks for reply dear , but why did u feel saturated

  Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:22 PM
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  next competetion will start on 1st march probably. check out the website

  Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:24 PM
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  mr.dexter wrote:

  As there will be seperate finals for indian students in algorithm design competetion of IMAGINE CUP i wanted to know what rank did u score in case u participated. I myself got 119 as the best rank

  
  
  there's no separate round for indians. Only one second round worldwide buddy. Also how did you qualify for second round with best rank of 119? It has to be under 50. You talking about same imagine cup?
  
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  Sumit Dagar
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  Saturday, February 24, 2007 8:52 PM
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  mr.dexter wrote:

  thanks for reply dear , but why did u feel saturated

  
  
  Thats because I saw people using same old tricks at every match. Use of simulators etc ruined the competition.
  Also I believe, herbert must've been used max 2 times. That way you must focus on algo development rather than developing simulators for herbert.
  

  Monday, February 26, 2007 8:34 PM
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  dear friend u seem to have sound indepth system  knowledge.

  can u plz tell me a little more how this simulator works really i am very anxious to know that.

  if u dont want to tell me now tell me after competetion is over.

   

  one more help i require from u:

  we have wi-fi connetion in our college but the network administrator only hostel PC's to connect to internet only after 4:30 pm but all computers in the college work with internet even before 4:30 . so can u suggest me some way to connect our hostel PC to net during 9:30 to 4:30. thanks in advance.

  one thing more when hostel PCs r given authority to connect to net the IP address of the server changes.

  from 192.x.x.x to 172.x.x.x

   

  Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:14 PM
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  Dexter again! :P

  Its not allowed to share the simulators with each other...and beware even if someone gives u..same simulator ll result n similar solutions and then u r at risk of getting disqualified.

  I din find any indian using simulators..bt yeah RAC (Match#1.. rank1) posted in the forum about eucledian algorithm...its very simple to design and can be extremely helpfull in solving some levels.

  but i still insist u need not to have any tool for qualifying...me n my friens qualified wid top 20 ranks and none had any idea of ne simulator!

  cheers! 

  Wednesday, February 28, 2007 7:20 AM
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  dear actually i came across this news while cahtting online with a algo design round qualifier he told me that it written somewhere on the microsoft website. lets see what happens

   

  Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:42 AM
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  dear friends round 4 of algo design has started

  Friday, March 2, 2007 6:41 AM
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  dear u can reffer to the student rockstar homepage score-sheet and theres it is written bout indian finals "THIS IS FOR YOUR KIND INFORMATION "DAGARSD", GO AND CHECK IT"

  Friday, March 2, 2007 6:46 AM
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  dear friends i think the easiest of all rounds is round 4

  Friday, March 2, 2007 9:43 AM
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  can anyone tell me when the round 3.5 of algo design started and did it really came-up as my herbert software login is showing match 3.5

  Friday, March 2, 2007 9:48 AM
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  dear friend u dont seem to be new to the contest by ur posts. just joking, dont mind u r a very nice and polite guy. i will tell u;

  firstly log on to www.imaginecup.com

  enter userid and password

  then click on algo-design link

  as the page comes then dowload your herbert software whos link is given on the page. nothing else u need to download

  then read the rules and regulations for understading how to write code

  and finally get going.

  Friday, March 2, 2007 6:41 PM
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  yes google is the best way to search for anything :) but this forum can be useful for others also who dont know about it , as after reading the threads, they can come to know what they previously didn't know :)
  

  Saturday, March 3, 2007 11:19 AM
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  hi...
  
  i reg for photo, but i interested  in  this algorithm design but design for given theme is difficult for me...
   
  are you very confident that the theme will suitable for your  design???
  
  all the best...
  

  Monday, March 5, 2007 6:43 AM
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  you are having seperate finals for the india k. all the best for you to get a good price
  

  Monday, March 5, 2007 10:32 AM
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  dear friends we should try to  post more info about algo-design in this thread

  Monday, March 5, 2007 4:50 PM
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  eh.. shadowman, you should seriously reconsider taking part in algo match 4, its really simple this time... and there are plenty of days left.
  Its always nice to have more and more Indians in there.
  

  Tuesday, March 6, 2007 5:26 AM
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  thanks m8 for the advice, i will try giving the round four :)
  
  

  Tuesday, March 6, 2007 3:15 PM
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  dear friend go for round four its really easy to start with and maybe its possible that u make it to india finals this time.

  Tuesday, March 6, 2007 3:34 PM
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  hey m8, what levels did you guys go in the round 4 ?
  i am stuck at level 2 :P
  

  Tuesday, March 6, 2007 5:47 PM
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  mr.dexter wrote: dear friend go for round four its really easy to start with and maybe its possible that u make it to india finals this time. post due to misunderstanding with dagarsd has been deleted.   Tuesday, March 6, 2007 7:23 PM 0 Sign in to vote  ShadowMan wrote: But what about the points that i missed out in the 1st three rounds ? i guess other people will have advantage over me ?   no dear u have to make your way in any one round. Tuesday, March 6, 2007 7:35 PM 0 Sign in to vote  dagarsd wrote:  mr.dexter wrote:  dagarsd wrote:  mr.dexter wrote: dear friend go for round four its really easy to start with and maybe its possible that u make it to india finals this time. Is it that hard to understand Mr. Dexter ?? THERE IS NO INDIA FINALS IN IC ALGO! kindly have a look at FAQs @ imaginecup.com   i think "DAGARD " u just seem to be overjoyed like kids and shouting wildly in every direction. GO and check the main page of student-rockstar (User-Profile Page) a row for "indian-finals points scored" is given there for scoring, if u were right then what  is  that row doing at the user-home page (points collected table) of your profile. Mr. dexter try to learn how to read plain english, go to www.imaginecup.com for FAQs about imagine cup (India finals or whatever) and not some site which refers to it. Student rockstar admin has mentioned that kind of stuff and I know that, I have conveyed the same to admin at rockstar but given there reluctance to efficiently manage this site, they have not replied yet. It would be better if you for once have a look at imagine cup site, oh wait here's an extract for you from there : "Round 1 of the Algorithm Invitational is in the form of a game called Herbert. Herbert requires you to solve a number of levels by writing small programs to control a robot. The simpler and more elegant your solution, the more points you get. Herbert challenges your ability to see patterns and create algorithms to produce these patterns. There will be four matches in Round 1. Each match will be two weeks long, and will consist of 25 new Herbert levels to solve. You can choose to participate in all matches, or in just one - it's up to you. The top 200 finishers cross all matches, by rank, will advance to Round 2. Note: for the purposes of the leaderboards, only your top ranked entry will be considered, and if you achieve that rank in more than one match, only the first will be considered." This might nail the issue for a sane person, rest  is inane.   "DAGARD" u seem to be just running alone in the race and not listening to anybody, student-rockstar contest is the latest update (contest started after imagine-cup) so why sticking onto the same old news of imagine-cup. whatever, u were never invited for discussion over this issue. A person is called mentally-handicapped child.... if he is not ready to accept the hard facts, i am really amazed how a mentally-crippled child scored in algo-design, may be simulators might have proved helpful this time. And lastly no more discussions r needed in this regard. Wednesday, March 7, 2007 5:14 PM 0 Sign in to vote looks like there is a fight between two members :( this doesn't sound good :( Wednesday, March 7, 2007 5:32 PM 0 Sign in to vote  dagarsd wrote: oh have fun Mr./Miss,/whatever dexter, sane people do listen to what the ORIGINAL site says, who cares whatever someone else says. BEST OF LUCK FOR YOUR INDIA IC ALGO FINALS! DO TRY TO POST YOUR INDIA RANK IF THERE IS ONE. HOPEFULLY YOU WILL FIND SOMEONE NEAR YOU WITH SOME ETHICS ( TRY YOUR MOM). THIS IS A PUBLIC FORUM NOT YOUR ROUDY  HOMEPLACE OR SOMETHING "DAGARSD" i have edited my post and i think no more discussions in this regard r required. Mind it all this has been started by you, see ur first post Wednesday, March 7, 2007 5:37 PM 0 Sign in to vote i have deleted every bad remark from my side now its upto the other party to do the same. Thursday, March 8, 2007 6:30 AM 0 Sign in to vote Man this is really not good. People are saying bad stuffs here in this forum. I think it will create bad impressions in other users mind. Friday, March 9, 2007 8:14 AM 0 Sign in to vote dear friends let forget the previous posts and lets concentrate over the algo-design issue.  i think this time algo-design questions r really easy, i did attempted them for first day i got rank in 135, i hope to perform better before competetion ends. Friday, March 9, 2007 9:16 AM 0 Sign in to vote @dexter, can you tell me how to cross level 2 ? i am stuck at level 2 of round 4 :P I really feel it hard :P i dont know how you feel it so easy, hehhehe. You must be so intelligent ;) Friday, March 9, 2007 11:56 AM 0 Sign in to vote  ShadowMan wrote: @dexter, can you tell me how to cross level 2 ? i am stuck at level 2 of round 4 :P I really feel it hard :P i dont know how you feel it so easy, hehhehe. You must be so intelligent ;)   dear shadowmwn its not about being intelligent firstly i also got some problems in round2 but when started doing the problems i found them comfortable to go with, except last ones, now the solution to problem-2 of round4 is given below just paste this answer in your herbert and let do the rest, this is an infinite loop, but is solved in less bits than max. no. given to us solution: t:ssss v:trtrtltlv v Friday, March 9, 2007 2:32 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear friend post something meaningful these unneccessary posts will not get u points as they will be checked by microsoft, best of luck Friday, March 9, 2007 2:38 PM 0 Sign in to vote Thanks for the solution m8. I was trying the same thing, but i did only 7 iterations and hence the size increased ;) i was trying to do f:ssss g(G):frfrflflg(G-1) g(7) Friday, March 9, 2007 2:40 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear can anyone suggest solution for problem10 of algo-design match-4 Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:20 PM 0 Sign in to vote @dexter or someone else, can you please post the solutions to the algo ? I am really feeling it hard to pass after th 3rd level :( Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:40 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear riend its really impossible to post all the solutions here, as other ppl( who r not the member this thread) can also see the solution this would give them unneccessary advantage, sorry. Sunday, March 11, 2007 6:16 AM 0 Sign in to vote my rank has really gone down with 26640 points i am at 250 rank Sunday, March 11, 2007 6:31 AM 0 Sign in to vote How many levels you solved dexter ? Sunday, March 11, 2007 8:01 AM 0 Sign in to vote dear friend i have made to 20 levels but rest  5 r really hard and now i have just stopped working on it. can anuone p[lz tell me how do i know what name should i use in forum, right now i am using my name which is my displt e-email-id. Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:02 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear friends was anyone able to do all the levels, and what is this "CAMPUS MATCH" link in herbert, can anyone plz tell me Friday, March 16, 2007 6:08 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear friends how well did u ppl perform in algo design competetion??? i got 250 rank with 26625 points Sunday, March 18, 2007 6:54 PM 0 Sign in to vote Congrats m8, that is really good :) i only scored about 1500+ points and rank i guess is not good to say :P  I hope many of the indians have been selected for the round 2 :) Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:13 AM 0 Sign in to vote daer friend thanks for the compliments, but as u know that it is of no use as we r not in top 50 ranks(world ranking),i think there r atleast 15-20 students who have not yet mentioned their ranks here but have got rank-under-250, i mean the indian candidates. hope some of them participate in this thread. Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:05 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear friends when will the results of contests of imagine-cup will be declared Sunday, March 25, 2007 9:28 AM All replies 0 Sign in to vote when is the next competition... Saturday, February 24, 2007 5:00 PM 0 Sign in to vote I achieved a rank of 30 in match-2. But I then felt saturated seeing everyone apply same old tricks. (They posted the solutions :p ) Saturday, February 24, 2007 5:03 PM 0 Sign in to vote thanks for reply dear , but why did u feel saturated Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:22 PM 0 Sign in to vote next competetion will start on 1st march probably. check out the website Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:24 PM 0 Sign in to vote  mr.dexter wrote: As there will be seperate finals for indian students in algorithm design competetion of IMAGINE CUP i wanted to know what rank did u score in case u participated. I myself got 119 as the best rank there's no separate round for indians. Only one second round worldwide buddy. Also how did you qualify for second round with best rank of 119? It has to be under 50. You talking about same imagine cup? regards Sumit Dagar best rank :15 Saturday, February 24, 2007 8:52 PM 0 Sign in to vote  mr.dexter wrote: thanks for reply dear , but why did u feel saturated Thats because I saw people using same old tricks at every match. Use of simulators etc ruined the competition. Also I believe, herbert must've been used max 2 times. That way you must focus on algo development rather than developing simulators for herbert. Monday, February 26, 2007 8:34 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear friend u seem to have sound indepth system  knowledge. can u plz tell me a little more how this simulator works really i am very anxious to know that. if u dont want to tell me now tell me after competetion is over.   one more help i require from u: we have wi-fi connetion in our college but the network administrator only hostel PC's to connect to internet only after 4:30 pm but all computers in the college work with internet even before 4:30 . so can u suggest me some way to connect our hostel PC to net during 9:30 to 4:30. thanks in advance. one thing more when hostel PCs r given authority to connect to net the IP address of the server changes. from 192.x.x.x to 172.x.x.x   Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:14 PM 0 Sign in to vote Last match of First round is schedule for March 1 - March 14!   Match starts at 0:00 GMT and end at 23:59:59 GMT. Tuesday, February 27, 2007 7:44 PM 0 Sign in to vote hi dexter, herbert needs connection only at it's startup (and when u upload the solutions), so u can login at the time ur net is on and then keep up d work for rest of the day! I just read, THERS A SEPARATE FINAL FOR INDIANS!!!! is that true??? i neva came across such news! Wednesday, February 28, 2007 7:02 AM 0 Sign in to vote Dexter again! :P Its not allowed to share the simulators with each other...and beware even if someone gives u..same simulator ll result n similar solutions and then u r at risk of getting disqualified. I din find any indian using simulators..bt yeah RAC (Match#1.. rank1) posted in the forum about eucledian algorithm...its very simple to design and can be extremely helpfull in solving some levels. but i still insist u need not to have any tool for qualifying...me n my friens qualified wid top 20 ranks and none had any idea of ne simulator! cheers!  Wednesday, February 28, 2007 7:20 AM 0 Sign in to vote dear actually i came across this news while cahtting online with a algo design round qualifier he told me that it written somewhere on the microsoft website. lets see what happens   Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:42 AM 0 Sign in to vote dear friends round 4 of algo design has started Friday, March 2, 2007 6:41 AM 0 Sign in to vote dear u can reffer to the student rockstar homepage score-sheet and theres it is written bout indian finals "THIS IS FOR YOUR KIND INFORMATION "DAGARSD", GO AND CHECK IT" Friday, March 2, 2007 6:46 AM 0 Sign in to vote dear friends i think the easiest of all rounds is round 4 Friday, March 2, 2007 9:43 AM 0 Sign in to vote can anyone tell me when the round 3.5 of algo design started and did it really came-up as my herbert software login is showing match 3.5 Friday, March 2, 2007 9:48 AM 0 Sign in to vote How to take part in this contest ? the algorithm contest is conducted every month ? i am new about this, so i request you guys to let me know what it actually is. I have already created an account for the imagine cup, but haven't started doing anything. Friday, March 2, 2007 4:03 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear friend u dont seem to be new to the contest by ur posts. just joking, dont mind u r a very nice and polite guy. i will tell u; firstly log on to www.imaginecup.com enter userid and password then click on algo-design link as the page comes then dowload your herbert software whos link is given on the page. nothing else u need to download then read the rules and regulations for understading how to write code and finally get going. Friday, March 2, 2007 6:41 PM 0 Sign in to vote actually i signed up for the Software development invitation :P thats why i didn't knew about the algorithm link :) anyways thanks a lot for your kind reply and detailed steps , changing y project definition :) this algo thing looks nice :) Saturday, March 3, 2007 6:55 AM 0 Sign in to vote HEY SEARCH IN GOOGLE NA Saturday, March 3, 2007 8:07 AM 0 Sign in to vote yes google is the best way to search for anything :) but this forum can be useful for others also who dont know about it , as after reading the threads, they can come to know what they previously didn't know :) Saturday, March 3, 2007 11:19 AM 0 Sign in to vote u can mstsc to connect to the internet from 9:30 to 4:30... you can also setup a separate proxy server using CCproxy, Freeproxy on your LAB pc and then use that proxy from your hostel PC.... Sunday, March 4, 2007 7:23 AM 0 Sign in to vote hi... i reg for photo, but i interested  in  this algorithm design but design for given theme is difficult for me...   are you very confident that the theme will suitable for your  design??? all the best... Monday, March 5, 2007 6:43 AM 0 Sign in to vote you are having seperate finals for the india k. all the best for you to get a good price Monday, March 5, 2007 10:32 AM 0 Sign in to vote i am also registered for the snap shot. but i am working on it. its too boring ya Monday, March 5, 2007 10:34 AM 0 Sign in to vote dear friends we should try to  post more info about algo-design in this thread Monday, March 5, 2007 4:50 PM 0 Sign in to vote  mr.dexter wrote: dear u can reffer to the student rockstar homepage score-sheet and theres it is written bout indian finals "THIS IS FOR YOUR KIND INFORMATION "DAGARSD", GO AND CHECK IT" Mr. dexter, some fundamentals for you : 1. only software development has separate country finals as in IC. 2. There is no india(or any other country) finals in IC 07. 3. Even if there is (in your imagination), a rank of 119 doesnt  let you qualify for second round. 4. The information on student rockstar points earn table ( if thats what you mean by score-sheet) only mentions IC india finals, which is not taking place in all the events in IC. buddy try to understand and clear your basics before taking part in reputed competitions like IC. If you do qualify (somehow) for India finals (which exist in your imagination) with a rank of 119, do inform us all. regards Sumit Dagar Monday, March 5, 2007 5:17 PM 0 Sign in to vote what was the algo asked in the 4th round, ? Monday, March 5, 2007 6:14 PM 0 Sign in to vote IC-algorithm is about solving traces for herbert (look www.imaginecup.com). It has 25 levels, not a single one. Hence no unique algo exists. have you participated in IC? Monday, March 5, 2007 9:18 PM 0 Sign in to vote thanks for the info m8. btw, i have signed up for the IC, but haven't done anything :P i thought i would do something, but i dont get much free time after college :( Tuesday, March 6, 2007 3:55 AM 0 Sign in to vote eh.. shadowman, you should seriously reconsider taking part in algo match 4, its really simple this time... and there are plenty of days left. Its always nice to have more and more Indians in there. Tuesday, March 6, 2007 5:26 AM 0 Sign in to vote thanks for the info Tuesday, March 6, 2007 9:31 AM 0 Sign in to vote thanks m8 for the advice, i will try giving the round four :) Tuesday, March 6, 2007 3:15 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear friend go for round four its really easy to start with and maybe its possible that u make it to india finals this time. Tuesday, March 6, 2007 3:34 PM 0 Sign in to vote But what about the points that i missed out in the 1st three rounds ? i guess other people will have advantage over me ? Tuesday, March 6, 2007 3:54 PM 0 Sign in to vote hey m8, i gave the round 4, i did it in 18 bytes of code, and points was 36/100 :( i think its very low... what about you guys ? how to go to the next level ? im ean next stage ? there are 25 stages. Tuesday, March 6, 2007 4:51 PM 0 Sign in to vote  mr.dexter wrote: dear friend go for round four its really easy to start with and maybe its possible that u make it to india finals this time. Is it that hard to understand Mr. Dexter ?? THERE IS NO INDIA FINALS IN IC ALGO! kindly have a look at FAQs @ imaginecup.com Tuesday, March 6, 2007 5:13 PM 0 Sign in to vote hey m8, what levels did you guys go in the round 4 ? i am stuck at level 2 :P Tuesday, March 6, 2007 5:47 PM 0 Sign in to vote  dagarsd wrote:  mr.dexter wrote: dear friend go for round four its really easy to start with and maybe its possible that u make it to india finals this time. post due to misunderstanding with dagarsd has been deleted.   Tuesday, March 6, 2007 7:23 PM 0 Sign in to vote  ShadowMan wrote: But what about the points that i missed out in the 1st three rounds ? i guess other people will have advantage over me ?   no dear u have to make your way in any one round. Tuesday, March 6, 2007 7:35 PM 0 Sign in to vote thanks for the info m8 :) how many levels did you clear ? Wednesday, March 7, 2007 4:23 AM 0 Sign in to vote  mr.dexter wrote:  dagarsd wrote:  mr.dexter wrote: dear friend go for round four its really easy to start with and maybe its possible that u make it to india finals this time. Is it that hard to understand Mr. Dexter ?? THERE IS NO INDIA FINALS IN IC ALGO! kindly have a look at FAQs @ imaginecup.com   i think "DAGARD " u just seem to be overjoyed like kids and shouting wildly in every direction. GO and check the main page of student-rockstar (User-Profile Page) a row for "indian-finals points scored" is given there for scoring, if u were right then what  is  that row doing at the user-home page (points collected table) of your profile. Mr. dexter try to learn how to read plain english, go to www.imaginecup.com for FAQs about imagine cup (India finals or whatever) and not some site which refers to it. Student rockstar admin has mentioned that kind of stuff and I know that, I have conveyed the same to admin at rockstar but given there reluctance to efficiently manage this site, they have not replied yet. It would be better if you for once have a look at imagine cup site, oh wait here's an extract for you from there : "Round 1 of the Algorithm Invitational is in the form of a game called Herbert. Herbert requires you to solve a number of levels by writing small programs to control a robot. The simpler and more elegant your solution, the more points you get. Herbert challenges your ability to see patterns and create algorithms to produce these patterns. There will be four matches in Round 1. Each match will be two weeks long, and will consist of 25 new Herbert levels to solve. You can choose to participate in all matches, or in just one - it's up to you. The top 200 finishers cross all matches, by rank, will advance to Round 2. Note: for the purposes of the leaderboards, only your top ranked entry will be considered, and if you achieve that rank in more than one match, only the first will be considered." This might nail the issue for a sane person, rest  is inane. Wednesday, March 7, 2007 3:15 PM 0 Sign in to vote  dagarsd wrote:  mr.dexter wrote:  dagarsd wrote:  mr.dexter wrote: dear friend go for round four its really easy to start with and maybe its possible that u make it to india finals this time. Is it that hard to understand Mr. Dexter ?? THERE IS NO INDIA FINALS IN IC ALGO! kindly have a look at FAQs @ imaginecup.com   i think "DAGARD " u just seem to be overjoyed like kids and shouting wildly in every direction. GO and check the main page of student-rockstar (User-Profile Page) a row for "indian-finals points scored" is given there for scoring, if u were right then what  is  that row doing at the user-home page (points collected table) of your profile. Mr. dexter try to learn how to read plain english, go to www.imaginecup.com for FAQs about imagine cup (India finals or whatever) and not some site which refers to it. Student rockstar admin has mentioned that kind of stuff and I know that, I have conveyed the same to admin at rockstar but given there reluctance to efficiently manage this site, they have not replied yet. It would be better if you for once have a look at imagine cup site, oh wait here's an extract for you from there : "Round 1 of the Algorithm Invitational is in the form of a game called Herbert. Herbert requires you to solve a number of levels by writing small programs to control a robot. The simpler and more elegant your solution, the more points you get. Herbert challenges your ability to see patterns and create algorithms to produce these patterns. There will be four matches in Round 1. Each match will be two weeks long, and will consist of 25 new Herbert levels to solve. You can choose to participate in all matches, or in just one - it's up to you. The top 200 finishers cross all matches, by rank, will advance to Round 2. Note: for the purposes of the leaderboards, only your top ranked entry will be considered, and if you achieve that rank in more than one match, only the first will be considered." This might nail the issue for a sane person, rest  is inane.   "DAGARD" u seem to be just running alone in the race and not listening to anybody, student-rockstar contest is the latest update (contest started after imagine-cup) so why sticking onto the same old news of imagine-cup. whatever, u were never invited for discussion over this issue. A person is called mentally-handicapped child.... if he is not ready to accept the hard facts, i am really amazed how a mentally-crippled child scored in algo-design, may be simulators might have proved helpful this time. And lastly no more discussions r needed in this regard. Wednesday, March 7, 2007 5:14 PM 0 Sign in to vote oh have fun Mr./Miss,/whatever dexter, sane people do listen to what the ORIGINAL site says, who cares whatever someone else says. BEST OF LUCK FOR YOUR INDIA IC ALGO FINALS! DO TRY TO POST YOUR INDIA RANK IF THERE IS ONE. HOPEFULLY YOU WILL FIND SOMEONE NEAR YOU WITH SOME ETHICS ( TRY YOUR MOM). THIS IS A PUBLIC FORUM NOT YOUR ROUDY  HOMEPLACE OR SOMETHING Wednesday, March 7, 2007 5:21 PM 0 Sign in to vote looks like there is a fight between two members :( this doesn't sound good :( Wednesday, March 7, 2007 5:32 PM 0 Sign in to vote  dagarsd wrote: oh have fun Mr./Miss,/whatever dexter, sane people do listen to what the ORIGINAL site says, who cares whatever someone else says. BEST OF LUCK FOR YOUR INDIA IC ALGO FINALS! DO TRY TO POST YOUR INDIA RANK IF THERE IS ONE. HOPEFULLY YOU WILL FIND SOMEONE NEAR YOU WITH SOME ETHICS ( TRY YOUR MOM). THIS IS A PUBLIC FORUM NOT YOUR ROUDY  HOMEPLACE OR SOMETHING "DAGARSD" i have edited my post and i think no more discussions in this regard r required. Mind it all this has been started by you, see ur first post Wednesday, March 7, 2007 5:37 PM 0 Sign in to vote SHUT THE *** UP YOU PIECE OF UNEDUCATED POLLUTED ***. TRY YOUR MOM REFERS TO SOMEONE WITH ETHICS BUT ONLY A MIND LIKE YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT WHAT YOU THOUGHT. NO PROBS WITH THAT BEST OF LUCK FOR YOUR FUTURE WITH THAT KIND OF THINKING. AS FAR AS RANDOM USE OF "PROSTITUTE" IS CONCERNED, I DONT HAVE PROBLEMS WITH YOU THINKING THAT OF YOUR MOM OR WHOEVER,  DOGS BARK AND THEY WILL CONTINUE BARKING SO YOU CAN DO THAT AS LONG AS YOU WANT TO, BUT WITH THAT THINKING I DONT THINK YOU WILL HAVE ANY SENSE. LETS STILL HOPE SOMEONE IN YOUR FAMILY/ FRIENDS IS SENSIBLE ENOUGH TO IMPART SOME ETHICS INTO YOU AND YOUR RETARD BRAIN. I AM OFF, CONTINUE BARKING IF YOU WANT TO. Wednesday, March 7, 2007 9:45 PM 0 Sign in to vote i have deleted every bad remark from my side now its upto the other party to do the same. Thursday, March 8, 2007 6:30 AM 0 Sign in to vote Man this is really not good. People are saying bad stuffs here in this forum. I think it will create bad impressions in other users mind. Friday, March 9, 2007 8:14 AM 0 Sign in to vote Its pretty interesting to hear all ranks and stuffs.. But my pathetic situation is that I ve joined the contest but had done nothing for it.. Can someone tel me whats the first step in the Algo Contest?   Friday, March 9, 2007 8:40 AM 0 Sign in to vote dear friends let forget the previous posts and lets concentrate over the algo-design issue.  i think this time algo-design questions r really easy, i did attempted them for first day i got rank in 135, i hope to perform better before competetion ends. Friday, March 9, 2007 9:16 AM 0 Sign in to vote 1455555555555555555555553333333333322222222222222222222222355555555 Friday, March 9, 2007 9:28 AM 0 Sign in to vote @dexter, can you tell me how to cross level 2 ? i am stuck at level 2 of round 4 :P I really feel it hard :P i dont know how you feel it so easy, hehhehe. You must be so intelligent ;) Friday, March 9, 2007 11:56 AM 0 Sign in to vote  ShadowMan wrote: @dexter, can you tell me how to cross level 2 ? i am stuck at level 2 of round 4 :P I really feel it hard :P i dont know how you feel it so easy, hehhehe. You must be so intelligent ;)   dear shadowmwn its not about being intelligent firstly i also got some problems in round2 but when started doing the problems i found them comfortable to go with, except last ones, now the solution to problem-2 of round4 is given below just paste this answer in your herbert and let do the rest, this is an infinite loop, but is solved in less bits than max. no. given to us solution: t:ssss v:trtrtltlv v Friday, March 9, 2007 2:32 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear friend post something meaningful these unneccessary posts will not get u points as they will be checked by microsoft, best of luck Friday, March 9, 2007 2:38 PM 0 Sign in to vote Thanks for the solution m8. I was trying the same thing, but i did only 7 iterations and hence the size increased ;) i was trying to do f:ssss g(G):frfrflflg(G-1) g(7) Friday, March 9, 2007 2:40 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear can anyone suggest solution for problem10 of algo-design match-4 Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:20 PM 0 Sign in to vote @dexter or someone else, can you please post the solutions to the algo ? I am really feeling it hard to pass after th 3rd level :( Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:40 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear riend its really impossible to post all the solutions here, as other ppl( who r not the member this thread) can also see the solution this would give them unneccessary advantage, sorry. Sunday, March 11, 2007 6:16 AM 0 Sign in to vote my rank has really gone down with 26640 points i am at 250 rank Sunday, March 11, 2007 6:31 AM 0 Sign in to vote How many levels you solved dexter ? Sunday, March 11, 2007 8:01 AM 0 Sign in to vote dear friend i have made to 20 levels but rest  5 r really hard and now i have just stopped working on it. can anuone p[lz tell me how do i know what name should i use in forum, right now i am using my name which is my displt e-email-id. Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:02 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear friends was anyone able to do all the levels, and what is this "CAMPUS MATCH" link in herbert, can anyone plz tell me Friday, March 16, 2007 6:08 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear friends how well did u ppl perform in algo design competetion??? i got 250 rank with 26625 points Sunday, March 18, 2007 6:54 PM 0 Sign in to vote Congrats m8, that is really good :) i only scored about 1500+ points and rank i guess is not good to say :P  I hope many of the indians have been selected for the round 2 :) Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:13 AM 0 Sign in to vote daer friend thanks for the compliments, but as u know that it is of no use as we r not in top 50 ranks(world ranking),i think there r atleast 15-20 students who have not yet mentioned their ranks here but have got rank-under-250, i mean the indian candidates. hope some of them participate in this thread. Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:05 PM 0 Sign in to vote dear friends when will the results of contests of imagine-cup will be declared Sunday, March 25, 2007 9:28 AM