you need to upload answers.md because it has your answers which give you half the marks right?

So should our program return None, print to Standard Error or can we assume only valid inputs?

In the READNE.md, the instruction says to upload the answers in answer.md, but since then there was an announcement saying to put it all in one python file but now there is a file in the lab section for answer.md. Should I stick with uploading only t...

There are also marks for answering the questions. There is no mark for speed, and quality is hardly an issue for such a small program.

ANONYMOUS wrote yes, that seems to be correct. Please ask the lab facilitator. This forum is not an alternative to attending labs.

Yes, you can write your own functions.

ANONYMOUS wrote I do not reply to every question. I wait for others to answer, and also there are labs and lab facilitators for answering lab related questions. You should attend labs and ask questions.

ANONYMOUS wrote Actual runtime is not tested in this unit. And runtimes vary depending on the language and machine.

ANONYMOUS wrote We are not checking for speed.

ANONYMOUS wrote 11 59 pm, that means one minute before midnight.

ANONYMOUS wrote I also said on a particular machine this was the case.

Here is a clarification for Lab2 testing The spec does not consider the possibility of calling get rank time() for a rank that does not currently exist on the leaderboard. Since it specifies to return the maximum time that would be necessary to ac...

Ye i get about 0.5 sec as well

It also says the same thing on cssubmit "due 11 59pm Fri 29th Mar, 2024".

on the unit outline it says it is due at 11 59PM on the 29th March (Friday) D

It just says its due on Friday of this week, what time should we presume to this to be? Should we be assuming it's sometime in the night or afternoon considering we have a test the previous day?

how fast are everyone's solutions passing the test script? im sitting 0.6 seconds (down from 19s before ), not too sure if I can get it any faster from here. TIA

I did a-z and im passing all the tests

In the get runs explanation, it states that "Leaderboard is given in rank order, tie-broken by runner name." Is this supposed to be ascending alphabetical order (i.e. A-Z) or descending (Z-A)?

with returning positive infinity, thats what im also doing for now. and for what its worth, to cover all edge cases, im throwing negative infinity for when the rank is 1. I am sort of just assuming that that is what we are expected to do, but ill b...