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The 2013 British Informatics Olympiad Final

The 2013 British Informatics Olympiad final took place at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 5-7 April.

The competition consisted of three stages.

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

On the morning of Saturday 6th, two written questions were set:

• Tower of London (pdf) (1 1/2 hour) - structured question-and-answer task.
• Supermarket (pdf) (30 minutes) - free essay question.

In the afternoon, students sat the following programming exercises:

• Seed (pdf)
• Thoroughbred (pdf)
• ... and the Democratic Coup (pdf)
• Code of the Magi (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.