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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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2019-06-25 07:30:56
Those who are not getting it, check the first question solved in this video, from 5:10. : https://youtu.be/TC6snf6KPdE Last edit: 2019-06-25 07:32:01 |
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2019-06-16 10:27:28
is it ncecessary that we have to implement it only under the tag under which the ques is categorised..that is DP?? |
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2019-05-22 22:05:45
use basic knowledge of Binary search and sorting..AC in one go |
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2019-05-18 08:11:45
sort(all(a)); ll low = 0; ll high = a[n-1]-a[0]+1; ll mid; while(low < high) { //cout<<low<<" "<<high<<endl; mid = (low+high+1)/2; if(check(mid,a,c)) low = mid; else high = mid-1; } cout<<low; what is problem with this code plz tell Last edit: 2019-05-18 08:12:14 |
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2019-05-10 17:30:00
use binary search to find the answer |
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2019-05-07 23:30:43
quora explaination ( https://qr.ae/TWIaVc ) was way too better than topcoder tutorial. One of the very good questions of binary search that I have seen. If anyone gets similar question, please comment here . |
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2019-03-26 18:46:53
AC in one go..easy implementation of binary search |
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2019-03-09 22:37:35
Ac in third go .. well i get help from qoura and topcoder to solve this question |
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2019-03-08 20:08:56
AC in one go |
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2019-03-06 05:40:38
Can't it be 1,4,9 instead of 1,4,8 |