Hi, everybody,
CodeForces round 488 for both divisions will take place on June 16th at 9:35am PDT / 19:35 Moscow Time / 4:35pm UTC
The contest will feature 6 problems for each division, with 4 problems shared across them.
The problems for the contest are from the test rounds hosted on a system JavaBlitz last year. If you participated in any of the JavaBlitz rounds, you shall not participate in this round.
The score distribution in each division is 500-1000-1500-2000-2500-3000
The round is rated in both divisions.
The contest is created by NEAR and its friends. All problems are initially created by myself (Alexander Skidanov), with a guest problem by CodeForces coordinator Nikolay Kalinin. David "pieguy" Stolp, Alexander "AlexFetisov" Fetisov, Marcelo "mnaeraxr" Fornet and Mikhail "cerealguy" Kever helped tremendously ensuring the high quality of the problems.
NEAR is working on teaching machines to compete in programming competitions. Read our blog on the state of the art in program synthesis today, and how you can help us bring this closer.