Problem 207. hackathon impossible

Created by Alfonso Nieto-Castanon

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Alan Chalker on 21 Feb 2012

There is something very strange about the contest system RandStream... it keeps reverting to a 'legacy' mode randomly. I submitted the same solution several times in a row and kept getting an error since the legacy mode has the State in a cell format. Finally I lucked out and got it to default back to the standard format.

Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 21 Feb 2012

I observed the same effect, it is rather interesting, my guess was that other people submissions including rand('state',...) commands might be producing this (I imagine we should be sharing a matlab session for this to happen, the context might be running on some sort of distributed environment, I am not sure about the details...)

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Óscar on 11 Aug 2012

It can be done in Size=1

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 1 Feb 2012

your hacking skills are unmistakable *bow*

Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 1 Feb 2012

this +1

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S L on 1 Feb 2012

I'm not sure this code is always right because the help says that I should not depend on the format of State property.

S L on 1 Feb 2012

I'm not sure this code is always correct because the help says that I should not depend on the format of State property.

Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 1 Feb 2012

very cool, traveling to the past!

@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 1 Feb 2012

haha, we came up with the same solution just about. awesome!

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