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AGGRCOW - Aggressive cows |
Farmer John has built a new long barn, with N (2 <= N <= 100,000)
stalls. The stalls are located along a straight line at positions
x1 ... xN (0 <= xi <= 1,000,000,000).
His C (2 <= C <= N) cows don't like this barn layout and become
aggressive towards each other once put into a stall. To prevent the
cows from hurting each other, FJ wants to assign the cows to the
stalls, such that the minimum distance between any two of them is
as large as possible. What is the largest minimum distance?
Input
t – the number of test cases, then t test cases follows.
* Line 1: Two space-separated integers: N and C
* Lines 2..N+1: Line i+1 contains an integer stall location, xi
Output
For each test case output one integer: the largest minimum distance.
Example
Input:
1 5 3 1 2 8 4 9
Output:
3
Output details:
FJ can put his 3 cows in the stalls at positions 1, 4 and 8,
resulting in
a minimum distance of 3.
Added by: | Roman Sol |
Date: | 2005-02-16 |
Time limit: | 2s |
Source limit: | 10000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All |
Resource: | USACO February 2005 Gold Division |
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2020-03-19 20:51:11
You should think of doing binary search on difference. Topcoder tutorial on binary search might be useful. |
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2020-03-17 20:00:38
nice question on binary search and gready approch takes time to come up the right solution. |
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2020-02-15 08:43:29 arun m dabbe
Very interesting problem , classic . |
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2020-01-30 15:46:11
>.> You need to be bit lucky for the greedy approach to strike. Took me a whole day. And rare for me but AC in a single go :p P.S :-Read Topcoder as suggested by many. Its not just greedy alone but coupled with Binary Search Last edit: 2020-01-30 15:50:43 |
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2020-01-23 15:20:28
Where can i find solution of the problem |
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2020-01-02 05:32:50
AC in one go |
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2019-12-24 15:20:19
Poor Explanation |
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2019-12-17 20:39:46
AC in one go !!! good question on BinarySearch !!! must do !! |
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2019-12-08 10:10:49
interesting problem |
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2019-10-26 08:52:01
AC in one go! Good question but sample test case could've been better. |