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MINSK, 22 March (BelTA) – Roman Udovichenko and Sergei Zhgirovsky also known as the YMTeam have won the team event of the Google Hash Code 2016 competition. They are graduates of the Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty of the Belarusian State University.

The final stage of the team event of the Google Hash Code programming competition took place in Paris on 19 March. University students and professionals over 18 years of age were invited to participate. As many as 52 teams from 22 countries took part in this year’s elimination round. Teams of 2-4 programmers had to tackle the tasks that Google Corporation deals with every day. The contestants were free to use any aid they wanted except for third-party assistance. No IDE or programming language restrictions were enforced.

According to the Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty website, Roman Udovichenko and Sergei Zhgirovsky won silver medals at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) back in 2013 when they were still students at the Belarusian State University.