Final Standings
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Here's the results of the final run:
WOW ... TOUGH CONTEST ... only FOUR entries progressed
past the N=37 round one of the finals ... congratulations
to Hal Burch and Danny Sleator, to Doug Jones, to Ted Alper
and to the "Happy Hacker" for making it to ROUND 2 .... N=98!!!
The results of the first round are shown below ... and
each participant will receive the results of their program.
THE SECOND ROUND ... N=98 ... only four participants
made it into the second round, Doug Jones' "mudpack"
found a 741 ticket solution while "ShowMeTheMoney" from
Hal Burch and Danny Sleator found a 750 ticket solution.
Ted Alper's "shroud_of_Turan" found a 762 ticket solution.
"DuckAndCover", from The Happy Hacker apparently only
found valid solutions (albeit the BEST ones) for values
of N less than or equal to 96. (Side note ... some of
the other entries actually found better N=98 solutions,
but they had not progressed to the second round by finding
the best solution in the first round ... go figure!)
Lots more mail will be coming to those who submitted programs,
and the website will be updated soon ... stay tuned ... and
thanks for participating in the POTM!
(and I'm sorry it took so long getting these results out. A
system problem coupled with the difficulty of checking the
results forced me to delay this mail an extra day.)
=Fred
ENTRY TICKETS SUM TIME LANG Programmer
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ShowMeTheMoney 31 3493 .38 gc H.Burch D.Sleator
shroud_of_Turan 31 3493 503.68 JAVA Ted Alper
mudpack 31 3704 .93 c Doug Jones
DuckAndCover 31 4753 .10 c Happy Hacker
Prairie_Dog_Weiner 32 3794 580.39 c Thad Smith
El_Konyo 34 3945 471.89 gc Yoichi Kono
ticketysplit 35 4617 3.56 c Vincent Goffin
tax_minimizer 35 4617 590.30 gc George Papoutsis
only_for_the_rich 36 3936 449.99 c Franz Mauch
Russian_Roulette 37 4117 4.04 C Dmitry Potapov
Renegade 38 4599 4.48 c John Engels
PackUpYourTriples 39 4547 .29 c John Linderman
autolotto 40 4546 .11 gc David Van_Brackle
elboe 40 4627 .16 c Andrew Gauld
Lott-Er-Luck 40 4693 .09 c Paul Bunting
Hole_Lotto_Love 40 5017 9.13 PERL John Williams
RockNRodl 41 4775 2.43 PERL Matthew Mullin
who_needs_luck 43 5151 .13 gC Shawn Fox
LOTO_NHV 43 5395 .12 C Nguyen Viet
LuckOut 44 5171 .13 c Davor Slamnig
SWAG 45 5280 .06 c Paul Banta
Bozo4_TM_So_Close 45 5445 1.98 CSH Susan Adams
HatTrick 50 5760 1.65 PERL D.Ross M.Hiller
luckyluke 58 7689 20.15 gC Michael Strauch
Slaughter-E 60 7972 10.57 c Brace Stout
tripleg 70 9390 120.13 c Ivan Velev
EasyMoney 77 9355 6.65 c Joe Vollbrecht
cclljj 77 9355 999.27 c Chen Ling-Jyh
simple 80 9779 1.09 c Alexey Zhelvis
kentemp 80 9779 1.29 gc Ken Bateman
zakharov 80 9779 1.56 c Alexei Zakharov
loops 80 9779 1.68 gc Bernard Hatt
in2win 80 9779 67.87 gC Joseph Eccles
DumbAndSlow 80 9779 117.83 C Colin Rafferty
CouldaBeen 80 10636 5314.66 gC Keith Jones
Lotta_rye 82 10084 497.80 C A.S.Kiran Koushik
pzsoltLottery 87 10631 6.18 gc Peter Zsolt
Karin-T-L 89 7734 2.24 gC Peter Conrad
sevens 145 13686 10.63 c Aivars Zogla
tix 383 49765 10.96 c Eric Weeks
lottoluck 383 50166 2.57 c Edwin Berlin
TicketToElbonia 512 69033 .35 c Sam Wilson
triceratops 632 83495 .66 c Earl Chew
Olimpas 809 95189 .25 c Mantas Puida
Bingo 1302 123396 .19 c Rags Viswanathan
Brute_Remorse 1302 222936 2.44 gC Chad Hurwitz
frisbee 1302 222936 3.29 PERL Andrew Schexnaydre
Ticketmaster 1302 222936 35.14 c Guy Oliver
NiceTry 1302 222936 80.44 gc Seth Rothenberg
something_clever 5456 398288 .37 gc Don Dykes
J3lottery 5456 398288 1.54 PERL Jason Nichols
POTM_Emporer 999999 0 gc John Guo
LottoMan 999999 0 .08 PAS Darren Davis
LuckAssure 999999 0 .08 c Vikram Sreeram
MERLOT 999999 0 .09 c Elizabeth Ross
LOTO-OPTIMIST 999999 0 .09 c Le_Kim Quoc_Phong
noentry 999999 0 .10 N Luc Kumps
The_Lucky_Draw 999999 0 .11 gc S. Arun
TroubleWithTriples 999999 0 .11 C R.Saint S.Weldon
Prince 999999 0 .12 c Brandon Crosby
LuckyDip 999999 0 .12 c Roy Lett
IMayAlreadyBeAWinner 999999 0 .13 c Phil Gregory
Two_Adder 999999 0 .23 PERL Nick Hildenbrandt
LOTO_WINNER 999999 0 .45 c Tong Nghia
lotto 999999 0 .48 c Jimmy Hu
LGVNWINH 999999 0 .66 PAS Tran Hoang
Lot_O_Tickets 999999 0 1.95 c Beth Wilson
Indian_lottery 999999 0 1.96 JAVA Raja Kannan
Rabbits 999999 0 5.83 c Victor Udovenko
copycat 999999 0 5.92 C Neal Palmer
shoe_in 999999 0 8.14 gC Andy Olsen
hatchance 999999 0 30.22 JAVA George Adams
blotto 999999 0 99.99 c Warren Montgomery
straightforward_average 999999 0 425.59 gc Curtis Larsen
lottoloser 999999 0 570.25 c Nguyen Trieu
king 999999 0 834.46 gC Brenda Holloway
lot-shot 999999 0 924.31 c George Menhorn
Jester 999999 0 killed C Phillip Staite
good2bdking 999999 0 1210.29 c Shawn Wischoeffer
Samanyolu 999999 0 1334.03 c Ertugrul Tabak
WhatASweat 999999 0 1351.74 c Giorgio DiFalco
Lotorenzo 999999 0 1389.76 c Lourenco Arnasalon
Elbo_Mac 999999 0 25375.89 gC Andrew Royappa
jabri_mamu 999999 0 5332.02 gC Neelkanth Natu
(999999 means that the result did not cover all possible draws, or
that some other error caused the output to be incorrect.)
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