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Competitive programming in Haskell: folding folds

Posted on June 19, 2021 by Brent

Now that the semester is over—and I will be on sabbatical in the fall!—you can expect a lot more competitive programming in Haskell posts. In a previous post, I challenged you to solve Origami. j0sejuan took me up on the … Continue reading →

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Competitive programming in Haskell: folding challenge

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Brent

As of this writing, I am the only person who has solved Origami on Open Kattis (see the problem statistics here). This is a shame since it is a very nice problem! Of course, I solved it in Haskell. I … Continue reading →

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Competitive programming in Haskell: cycle decomposition with mutable arrays

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Brent

In my previous post I I challenged you to solve Chair Hopping: if a bunch of people permute themselves according to the same rule twice, how many different rules could they be following which would result in the observed final … Continue reading →

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Competitive programming in Haskell: 2D cross product, part 1

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Brent

Time for some more geometry! In my previous post I challenged you to solve Cookie Cutters, which asks us to scale the vertices of a polygon so that it has a certain prescribed area. It’s possible to solve this just … Continue reading →

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Competitive programming in Haskell: vectors and 2D geometry

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Brent

In my previous post (apologies it has been so long!) I challenged you to solve Vacuumba, which asks us to figure out where a robot ends up after following a sequence of instructions. Mathematically, this corresponds to adding up a … Continue reading →

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