Archive – 2007

2007 ACM Arab & North Africa Regional Contest

The 2007 Arab & North Africa 10th Regional Contest was hosted by the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Egypt, 3-5 December 2007. All activities took place at the Academy except the opening which was held at the historic & prestigious Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

The Participants

44 teams from 27 Universities attended the contest. Nine countries were represented: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates.

The Contest

The problem-set was made of 10 problems. Almost all teams managed to solve problem-A (“Judging Olympia”). No team managed to solve problem-G (“Let’s Go to the Movies”) and no team attempted to solve problem-I (“Moving Sticks”). Click here for a summary of solved problems.

The contest environment supported three programming languages: C, C++, and Java. Only two teams used C, and the majority favored C++. Click here for a report on language-related statistics.

The Judges I/O

 

A. Judging Olympia(currently unavailable)

B. Hide That Number

C. Rotating Rings(currently unavailable)

D. A Tale from the Dark Side of the Moon

E. Fermat’s Christmas Theorem

F. Incidental Points

G. Let’s Go to the Movies

H. The Writer’s Club

I. Moving Sticks (Take a look at the judges’ cheat-sheet)

J. Johnny Hates Math

 

The Results

Click here for the final results, or here for the detailed results.

And the winners are…