Algorithms Weekly by Petr Mitrichev

TopCoder Open onsite finals is an unique opportunity where one can blog about daily events and still stay in the style of this blog (which I...

Here're the problem statements: http://cm2prod.baylor.edu/resources/pdf/2009Problems.pdf (mirrored at http://77.41.63.3/icpc2009/statem...

This is another interesting-only-for-TopCoder-players post. I've uploaded the screencasts of TopCoder Open 2009 Elimination Rounds 1 ( S...

I've recently lost my 1st TopCoder rating to ACRush and have already fell quite a bit behind. This is mostly due to his superb performa...

OK, here's the sentence: This sentence has seven hundred and seventeen letters, one hundred and fifty-six words, forty-six commas, one d...

Here's one funny problem back from 1998 summer training camp for Russian IOI team hopefuls. Construct a sentence of form: This sentence ...

This will probably only be interesting for TopCoder players, and they've probably already seen this on the forum, but anyway. Here'r...