The fourth annual NMU Invitational Programming Contest was held from 12:00 to 5:00 P.M. EST on Saturday 29 March 2002 at Northern Michigan University. The contest was organized by the NMU student chapter of the ACM and was attended by 61 students on 24 teams representing the following five schools.

Algoma University College, Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada
Lake Superior State University, Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, USA
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan, USA
University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota, USA

The contest consisted of 6 problems to be solved over a 5 hour period.

Here is the list of rules.

Below is the list of problems, test input files, correct output files, and sample solutions. There were many ways to solve the problems, of course. These solutions were written in ANSI C, and should compile on any C/C++ compiler.

Problem 1
Problem 1 Input File
Problem 1 Output File
Problem 1 Solution

Problem 2
Problem 2 Input File
Problem 2 Output File
Problem 2 Solution

Problem 3
Problem 3 Input File
Problem 3 Output File
Problem 3 Solution

Problem 4
Problem 4 Input File
Problem 4 Output File
Problem 4 Solution

Problem 5
Problem 5 Input File
Problem 5 Output File
Problem 5 Solution

Problem 6
Problem 6 Input File
Problem 6 Output File
Problem 6 Solution

MTU Free Pizza won the competition.
Second place went to ALGOMA B.
Third place went to NMU Team Denny Mike Matt.

The winning school was Michigan Technological University.

Here are the complete results.