Contest

Andries Brouwer, aeb@cwi.nl

1. The problem

2. Trivial cases

3. An easy case

4. A nontrivial case

5. Table of optimal values

6. Good solutions

• 6.1 m = 2
• 6.2 k = 3
• 6.3 k = 4
• 6.4 Other exact values
• 6.5 Lower bounds

7. Searching

• 7.1 A bound on L
• 7.2 A bound on w
• 7.3 Strategy for finding L(W)
• 7.4 Strategy for finding L(k,m)