You can't brute force the largest case where v = 10 and p = 36 by far. More importantly my problem with your formula is that if it's taken seriously, it might favor solutions that run within a millisecond and are optimized for speed in complicated ways, which I wouldn't quite like. As a compromise, how about at least changing your formula in the following way:

score = (totalTries - minimumTries) * max((totalTime - timeInCheckSub) / totalTries, smallTimeConstant)

On second thought, do as you want, I probably don't really care about any scoring or winning here, I'd like to write a solution that satisfy me, and learn from it. If you make a common and mostly mechanical framework, it should rather rigorously test the solutions for correctness and be a developer's aid rather than select a winner.

In reply to Re^7: Challenge: Optimal Bagels Strategy by ambrus
in thread Challenge: Optimal Bagels Strategy by Limbic~Region

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