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Good question, goalboy. Please keep in mind that the following is in no sense the official HackerRank position but my personal opinion.
HackerRank hosts a multitude of competitions in quite different formats: from blink-and-you-miss-it HourRanks and no-time-for-bathroom-breaks 101 Hacks to red-eye-sleepless marathons of World CodeSprints and heart-breaking-daily-additional-testcases of Weeks of Code.
With the longer competitions - CodeSprints and WoC - there is an actual opportunity to learn something new during the competition, and being able to apply it to improve your score and ranking.
And Project Euler+ stands here on its own: there is no time limits to solve a problem. You can explore it at your pace, read relevant (and not so relevant) scientific papers, and do your own research. The main benefit here - as I see it - is the educational aspect of the problem, where the task forces you to expand the horizon of your knowledge and abilities, both in mathematical and computer science fields.
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Project Euler #194: Coloured Configurations
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Good question, goalboy. Please keep in mind that the following is in no sense the official HackerRank position but my personal opinion.
HackerRank hosts a multitude of competitions in quite different formats: from blink-and-you-miss-it HourRanks and no-time-for-bathroom-breaks 101 Hacks to red-eye-sleepless marathons of World CodeSprints and heart-breaking-daily-additional-testcases of Weeks of Code.
With the longer competitions - CodeSprints and WoC - there is an actual opportunity to learn something new during the competition, and being able to apply it to improve your score and ranking.
And Project Euler+ stands here on its own: there is no time limits to solve a problem. You can explore it at your pace, read relevant (and not so relevant) scientific papers, and do your own research. The main benefit here - as I see it - is the educational aspect of the problem, where the task forces you to expand the horizon of your knowledge and abilities, both in mathematical and computer science fields.