I have two questions.

Firstly, could you restrict the number of colors to at least two more than the number of positions? (The case when the number of colors is equal to the number of positions can be a bit tricky, so such a restriction would simplify the code we write while still allowing a contest.) Alternately, could you just choose two or three pairs of parameters to which we should optimize our solutions for the contest?

Secondly, could you clarify whether the v parameter is the number of colors, or one less than the number of colors as Limbic's post seems to imply?

Thanks in advance.