From rob@twcny.rr.com Sun Mar 03 14:30:06 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 3 Mar 2002 22:30:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 76542 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2002 22:30:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Mar 2002 22:30:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout5.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.122) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2002 22:30:05 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0 [24.92.226.74]) by mailout5.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id g23MU2M08892 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 17:30:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from riff ([24.92.246.4]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 17:30:03 -0500 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16heUV-0000fy-00 for ; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 17:30:03 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 17:30:03 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Lojban in the USACO Message-ID: <20020303223003.GA2583@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2572649 X-Yahoo-Profile: squeekybobo I just took the online USACO competetion today (USA Computing Olympiad, a programming competition for high schoolers). I did the problems in the higher (green) division, but looked at the lower (orange) division problems afterward. One problem in the Orange division was to write a program that would add spelled-out Lojban numbers! Unfortunately, they did not mention Lojban at all; as is traditional (for some reason) on the USACO, the problem was expressed as a hypothetical situation involving cows. Perhaps the contest director will mention Lojban when he e-mails the results and analysis of the problems. The text of the problem should be available to people outside the contest in about a week. -- la rab.spir to mu toi