Problem 42498. Pancake sorting - minimum flips.
- There are N pancakes with diameters 1:N.
- Spatula can be inserted anywhere in the stack and used to flip all the pancakes above.
- Sort pancakes in increasing order.
- Return a vector of places where spatula was inserted.
- Minimize number of flips, your score will depend on the number of flips in the last few tests.
- References: math.illinois.edu, wikipedia.
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William Gates and Christos Papadimitrou solved this problem, before the former left to co-found Microsoft. Very interesting problem indeed.
Is the scoring system still working?
Lincoln, I checked the reference solution and it showed that the manual scoring system no longer works.
I will see what changes I can do and notify it here.
Unfortunately, the scoring system is broken (same as in the TRON challenge by Alfonso).
No way to get the Indexing IV badge :-(
@Stefan, I have commented out the part that outdated and the test suite is working now.
I have rescored your solution, you can now (hopefully) get the Indexing IV badge!
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