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The 2014 British Informatics Olympiad Final

The 2014 British Informatics Olympiad final took place at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 4-6 April.

The competition consisted of three stages.

On the evening of Friday 4th, one written question was set:

• FRACTRAN (pdf) (1 1/2 hour) - structured question-and-answer task.

On the morning of Saturday 5th, students were helped to get working with their compilers with a practice programming question (not graded).

• ... and the Zinc Zygosphene (pdf)

During the afternoon, students sat the following programming exercises:

• The Annotated Mask (pdf)
• Plough (pdf)
• Eye of the Beholder (part 1) (pdf)
• Eye of the Beholder (part 2) (pdf)

A followup question, which was not used during the contest, expands on one of the earlier problems

• The Annotated Mask (Bonus) (pdf)

The language available was C/C++. Students were advised, at the start of the programming session, that they did not need to attempt all of the questions.