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-# competitive-programming
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+# competitive-programming
+
+Solutions to problems from various competitive programming sites.
+
+Beware of old, questionable-looking, code.
+
+* More general solutions can be found under the directory 'algorithms-and-datastructures'
+* Problems found at 'Open Kattis' have been put in directory named after the problem title.
+* Problems I could only find through 'Online Judge' (UVa) are prepended with a 'u' and the problem number at UVa.
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+EXECUTABLE=tst
+CC=g++
+CFLAGS=-lm -lcrypt -O2 -std=c++11 -Wall -Wextra -Werror -pipe -DONLINE_JUDGE
+OBJ=main.cpp
+
+$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJ)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJ)
+
+.PHONY: clean
+clean:
+	rm -rf $(EXECUTABLE)