Online qualification round of #HashCode2020, a Google programming competition to solve a team-based challenge
Books allow us to discover fantasy worlds and beer understand the world we live in. They enable us to learn about everything from photography to compilers… and of course a good book is a great way to relax!
Google Books is a project that embraces the value books bring to our daily lives. It aspires to bring the world's books online and make them accessible to everyone. In the last 15 years, Google Books has collected digital copies of 40 million books in more than 400 languages , paly by scanning books from libraries and publishers all around the world.
In this competition problem, we will explore the challenges of seing up a scanning process for millions of books stored in libraries around the world and having them scanned at a scanning facility.
Given a description of libraries and books available, plan which books to scan from which library to maximize the total score of all scanned books, taking into account that each library needs to be signed up before it can ship books.
