Search trends

[admin]

Nowadays, every website reports their trends, or buzzwords, etc... which basically are the most frequent search requests, or post title names. The goal of this puzzle is to write a trend search which takes a list of a search requests, processes it, and returns the most frequent ones in decreasing order of popularity.

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[vladut]

the input file? is it given as argument?

[admin]

Yes the filename is passed to argv[1].

[st0le]

What if two have same frequency? whats the order i should follow?

[davidb]

You should use the alphanumerical order on the terms, I'll update the puzzle description.

[st0le]

It's weird.

"Your program didn't pass the test case given in the puzzle example".

I did "verify" and it passed successfully...Something i'm missing?

[admin]

St0le, earlier today (several hours ago) I fixed a bug in AJAX that was filtering out the "\" in "\n".

I suspect your browser cache is still using the old javascript.
Can you clear your cache in your browser ?
Or try in a different web browser ?

Contact me through private message if the problem persists, I'll direct you to debug it further.

[st0le]

You were right, the website is stripping off the '\' from '\n'....

I've cleared my cache, and tried a different browser, the problem still persists.

Is there something i should be doing?

[stefanie]

I improved my code from
1,06735246419 sec to 7,21777376755e-07 sec for 5000 lines and still get the same score

Is this normal? Do I have to improve something else?

Stefanie

[admin]

stefanie, what counts is the sum of the times for all the tests.

The equation we use is this:
q = (cpulimit-cpu)/float(cpulimit)
Then that number q is rounded to the nearest 100th.

That number q is then multiplied by the number of points assigned to the puzzle being solved, and the resulting number is the score assigned to the solution.