> Definitely, characters. A high-granularity measure is essential to > reduce the chance of ties. Even so there may well be equal-first-place > winners -- hope they're not solved in terms of first submission, since > submitting at 14:00 UTC is WAY easier for Europe residents (residents of > the Americas would have to go to bed VERY late, get up VERY early, or > spend extra effort setting up cron jobs), and that would bias everything > in a most unfair manner.
Not sure what to do about it, is there something more fair than first come first serve? Cheers, Simon -- python coding contest - http://www.pycontest.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
