Latest News Jul 4 2:41PM EST  Mastermind Contest Analysis is Here We've posted some analysis of the contest. Read about the contest's evolution, an analysis of the winning entry by Stijn Helsen, and Brian Welch's description of how he cheated. You can also download the testsuite here. Mastermind® Contest Winner Stijn Helsen's "fcol_a_05" is the official winner of the 4th MATLAB Programming Contest. Many of you will recognize code that you contributed to the winning entry; congratulations to you as well. Stijn has won a collection of prizes, including a Mastermind board game, MathWorks calculator, pens, helicopter toy, squishy globe, and fame and fortune! We hope you had fun playing We hope you enjoyed this contest; we certainly did. Maybe we'll see you again the next time - The MATLAB Contest Team Entries waiting in queue Entry Author Date        Length Top 20 Ranked Entries Comments from Stijn Helsen:   additions (were already in the code) Entry Author Rank Score CPU time Results Date        Length fcol_a_05 Stijn Helsen 1 1251.6900 129.76  64.60,  35.39 (78.55 taken) 2001-09-21 16:32:58 6200 fcol_a_07 Stijn Helsen 2 1252.1279 129.04  64.55,  35.45 (78.35 taken) 2001-09-21 16:37:37 6901 infinite_tunning_09_aw Francois Glineur 3 1255.9942 123.26  64.25,  35.75 (78.82 taken) 2001-09-21 16:55:24 7952 infinite_tunning_09 IT (Ion Tiseanu) 4 1256.1572 127.35  64.25,  35.75 (78.82 taken) 2001-09-21 16:48:32 7726 MORE BLACKS Johannes Schneider 5 1256.2896 127.35  64.25,  35.75 (78.78 taken) 2001-09-21 16:58:03 7622 infinite_tunning_06 IT (Ion Tiseanu) 6 1256.3183 127.88  64.26,  35.74 (78.81 taken) 2001-09-21 14:45:27 7744 infinite_tunning_07 IT (Ion Tiseanu) 7 1256.3220 127.97  64.26,  35.74 (78.81 taken) 2001-09-21 14:46:29 7744 asdf16 asdf 8 1256.4423 127.48  64.22,  35.78 (78.80 taken) 2001-09-21 14:59:27 7614 saw_1 Fei Tang 9 1256.4623 127.48  64.23,  35.77 (78.79 taken) 2001-09-21 15:25:09 13474 sawshape Fei Tang 10 1256.4640 127.52  64.23,  35.77 (78.79 taken) 2001-09-21 15:25:29 13474 inf2 Kristoffer Lindstrom 11 1256.6478 139.68  64.25,  35.75 (78.82 taken) 2001-09-21 17:00:47 7951 better maxcolor_sievesmall_b7 Francois Glineur 12 1256.9111 125.60  64.16,  35.84 (78.81 taken) 2001-09-21 16:19:05 7471 Squeeze the Sieve Matthew Walsh 13 1256.9936 127.67  64.16,  35.84 (78.81 taken) 2001-09-21 12:22:35 7595 Squeeze the Sieve_b7 Francois Glineur 14 1256.9987 127.80  64.16,  35.84 (78.81 taken) 2001-09-21 14:50:20 7454 infinite_tunning_04 IT (Ion Tiseanu) 15 1257.0016 127.88  64.16,  35.84 (78.81 taken) 2001-09-21 14:25:49 7673 infinite_tunning_05 IT (Ion Tiseanu) 16 1257.0036 127.92  64.16,  35.84 (78.81 taken) 2001-09-21 14:26:55 7673 Squeeze the Sieve_b Francois Glineur 17 1257.0152 128.22  64.16,  35.84 (78.81 taken) 2001-09-21 14:24:39 7613 inf1 Kristoffer Lindstrom 18 1257.0217 145.56  64.26,  35.74 (78.81 taken) 2001-09-21 16:58:57 7743 infinite_tunning_08 IT (Ion Tiseanu) 19 1257.0418 128.89  64.16,  35.84 (78.81 taken) 2001-09-21 16:24:05 7969 better maxcolor_sievesmall_b Francois Glineur 20 1257.0717 129.64  64.16,  35.84 (78.81 taken) 2001-09-21 09:39:14 7253

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