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==Contest rules==

ACM/ICPC is a team competition. Each team consists of three students. Participiants must be university students, who have had less than five years of university education before the contest. Students who have previously competed in twitwo World Finals or four regional competitions are ineligible to compete again.

During contest, the teams are given about 8 programming problems and 5 hours of time. They must submit solutions as programs in [[C programming language|C]], [[C Plus Plus|C++]], [[Pascal programming language|Pascal]] or [[Java programming language|Java]]. Programs are then run on test data. If a program fails to give a correct answer, the team is notified about that and they can submit another program.