From: Markus Buehren on
The statistics page is still down, so I parsed the results
to find out who the winner of 1000-nodes-challenge is. Here
is the (inofficial) top ten:

01. 15484.3796: Uss tc
02. 15484.4924: node speed YC
03. 15485.2384: M&M_262 MikeR
04. 15485.3887: node speed YC
05. 15485.5323: M&M_259 MikeR
06. 15485.7220: super speed 2 YC
07. 15485.8111: super speed YC
08. 15485.8763: super speed 1 YC
09. 15485.8969: aam333 Abhisek Ukil
10. 15485.9271: node speed 3 YC

It seems tc aka The Cyclist has won another contest prize.
Well done! Check out which small tweak he used:

http://www.mathworks.com/contest/wiring.cgi/diff.html?id1=48627&id2=48680

Yours
Markus
From: Markus Buehren on
Grmpf, just posting this I notice that the Statistics page
is up again...
From: Helen Chen on
"the cyclist" <thecyclist(a)letter.after.f.mail.com> wrote in
message <fvqkq7$ae2$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> "the cyclist" <thecyclist(a)letter.after.f.mail.com> wrote in
> message <fvhptn$kgm$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...

> Stats page seems to be stuck again (Tuesday at 5:40 PM, just
> before end of 1000-mode contest).

I think it was quite backlogged with all the last minute
postings before the 6 pm deadline as the queue has just
cleared up.

Helen
From: Alan Chalker on
As I usually do, I've now posted a heavily commented version
of the leading code so that those of you who aren't in the
'thick of it' can have an opportunity to understand the
alogrithms behind the solutions to this problem.

The code is entry 47616 viewable at:
http://www.mathworks.com/contest/wiring.cgi/view_submission.html?id=47616

Hope this helps!
From: Sergey on
Hi.
Would it be possible to announce in advance if we are going
to have (and when) late twilight, best result, 1000
character, generality competition?
SY (Sergey)