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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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2016-03-26 19:53:55
must try...... loved this question |
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2016-03-05 12:36:27
gud one!!! |
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2016-02-08 16:58:24 ankur jaiswal
yes giriprasad kemburu he can put; infact its one of the solutions |
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2016-02-03 16:00:32 ankurverma1994
Weak Test Cases 1 2 2 5 10 Answer should be 5 but 4 is also accepted. I think for C=2 there is no test case present in test file |
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2016-01-25 19:10:39
Excellent Problem,looks hard but it is easy just read the topcoder binary search tutorial and solve this one |
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2016-01-25 11:23:11
It's definitely not as easy as it seems to be.Try to relate it with the example given in Topcoder binary search tutorial.Try the following testcases for confirmation. input: 6 10 3 1 2 9 8 4 4 8 9 2 1 5 3 1 2 8 4 9 20 3 9 8 7 10 6 5 4 3 2 1 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 20 3 3 0 1000000000 500000000 20 4 9 8 7 10 6 5 4 3 2 1 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 20 20 5 9 8 7 10 6 5 4 3 2 1 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 20 output: 3 3 9 500000000 6 4 |
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2016-01-24 13:37:51
Really nice one and awesome tutorial on Topcoder |
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2016-01-21 06:42:05 Devashish Mathur
Great Question.. |
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2016-01-17 10:03:18
F*** -_- [2WA]- forgot to loop for test cases. Awesome concept - made me understand the actual use of binary search - Simple Implementation Must read - Topcoder Tutorial. |
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2015-12-23 19:49:23 Junaid
I would say this is the best problem I have done on SPOJ till now..I took a whole day just to solve this one....but finally AC in one go...my 44th..:P...All THANKS to topcoder.....:)...highly recommended problem.. |