Is it ethical to post my TopCoder solutions to my blog?

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Published on 2009-09-04T07:09:23Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 7:10 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. Would this be ethical?

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