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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
Explanation
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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2017-08-27 18:47:35
First, I found solution using Indexed priority queue, but after topcoder's article lecture the solution just show up :) |
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2017-08-24 20:29:26
Quora helped :) |
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2017-08-05 20:00:23
nice problem thanks to quora thread and top coder tutorial |
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2017-08-03 16:48:57
Nice BS Problem |
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2017-07-25 14:56:37
At last after understanding from both Topcoder binary search and the Quora answer |
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2017-07-23 23:40:32
if u having any problem read this link https://www.topcoder.com/community/data-science/data-science-tutorials/binary-search Last edit: 2017-07-23 23:42:27 |
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2017-07-17 07:46:17
don't forget to add new line (cout<<endl) at the end. |
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2017-07-14 08:20:37
any way to do it in O(N)?? |
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2017-07-01 12:07:12 Anand Kumar
Amazing question... Many variants of this question are available on internet |
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2017-06-30 20:29:14
Nice BS question. If not getting an idea, I suggest you to read the quora thread on this question. |