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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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2016-08-10 05:45:41 Yogesh Biyani
Last edit: 2016-08-10 05:46:25 |
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2016-08-06 09:31:33
My First question on SPOJ. Took me whole day to figure out everything (Topcoder article was ultimate!!). But, totally worth the wait. AC in 2nd attempt. Special thanks to @manas0008 for your test cases. Helped me realize, I was off by 1. Thanks :-) Last edit: 2016-08-06 09:32:03 |
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2016-07-28 07:10:47 subhasmita sahoo
Excellent question!!!!! |
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2016-07-07 15:39:52
nice problem ,ac in one go xD |
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2016-07-03 16:25:51
Worth the time! Nice implementation! That tutorial was indeed good. |
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2016-06-23 11:52:08
finally AC!!! |
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2016-06-19 13:36:28
Phew!! Topcoder tutorial wasn't easy to understand... Hint: Or summary of topcoder tut is that: In that example if you take the min distance 4 then you won't be able to put all cows in shed.... |
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2016-06-17 15:45:43
awesome ques on binary search implementation .....learnt a lot !! binary search with optimizations and technique ;-) topcoder tutorial gave a new vision of this :-) AC :-) |
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2016-06-14 14:51:48
@krototye: ATQ, C can't be less than two so your test case is not possible |
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2016-05-19 16:04:57
1000 000 000, but it's not important. Last edit: 2016-05-19 16:07:48 |