Is it ethical to post my own Topcoder solutions to my blog

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Published on 2009-09-04T07:09:23Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 8:33 UTC
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I recently joined Topcoder and have been solving a few problems on the site. Now, I want to publicly post my solutions onto my blog and have others go over it, suggest improvements, better design etc wherever applicable. My question is, would this be ethical?

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