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From: "Steven Lord" <slord@mathworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Can an empty solution be better than optimal?
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"Darren Rowland" <darrenjremovethisrowland@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:hctmur$dot$1@fred.mathworks.com...
>@ cyclist:  I'm pretty sure that this is regarding the current contest.

I'd like to suggest that if you have questions about the contest, please 
either post in the main contest thread:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/264764

and/or tag your thread with the 'contest' tag, and/or include the words 
'contest' or 'Fall 2009 contest' somewhere in your post, like the subject.

> You might like to evaluate a number of different strategies (including the 
> 'do nothing' strategy) and choose the one which gives the lowest score.

Dmitry,

The "Other Considerations" heading in the Scoring section of the rules 
states that returning the empty set is a legitimate answer.

http://www.mathworks.com/contest/flooding/rules.html

Whether it's a _good_ answer or not is for you and your code to decide :)

-- 
Steve Lord
slord@mathworks.com
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