Hash Code 2020

This is a solution for Google's Hash Code 2020 competition.

The Experience

This is my first coding competition as I've never had the urge to try it. But a friend wanted to try it so we formed a two member team and decided to have fun.

There isn't a lot of time: 4h to read and understand the problem, write the code, submit it and iterate on the idea.

The code produces the final score of 22.709.246 points. For comparison, the winner of 4 hours of competition produces 27.203.691 points.

All in all, we had fun :)

The Code and Data

Written using latest Python 3 at the time (3.8.1), but any could be easily modified to run on any python.

A single input file can be processed with:

./books.py input-file > output-file

Run all input files with:

./runall.sh

which will process all input files from data directory and write result files to output.

The Team

1. Igor Lulić - the math guy
2. Sasha Matijasic - me, the coding guy

Licence

The code is licensed under MIT licence.