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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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2015-06-17 16:54:19
Here read it .. https://www.topcoder.com/community/data-science/data-science-tutorials/binary-search/ Dont miss the example he explains . |
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2015-06-15 02:09:10
someone can help me? can you explain to me, what is the relation of binary search with this problem? give me the clue. thx Last edit: 2015-06-15 02:51:38 |
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2015-06-03 17:55:35 Maverick
Great Problem.Now i Know where and why to use Binary Search. |
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2015-06-03 08:28:52 sharif ullah
ohh! 1,4,8 ans will be 3 Last edit: 2015-06-03 08:31:13 |
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2015-05-28 17:41:32 [Mayank Pratap]
Phew.....ACed .... If u read topcoder tutorials 10 times ......u definitely get something.... :) |
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2015-03-21 18:04:38 shuvadip
Sorry silly mistake!!!! Last edit: 2015-03-30 19:20:16 |
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2015-03-16 14:07:30 John Jost
I'm with chilaka... I believe the farmer would have put the cows in 1,4,9. However, I don't believe that would change the answer of 3 because there would still be the minimum distance between stall 1 and stall 4 of 3. |
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2015-02-24 14:44:58 chilaka ramakrishna
but it is said that the largest distance between any two cows as maximum as possible!! |
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2015-02-24 13:04:03 kepler
We have to find the largest minimum distance, not maximum distance! |
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2015-02-24 12:45:21 chilaka ramakrishna
why cant he put his cows in 1,4,9 from the above case the largest minimum distance becomes 4 Last edit: 2015-02-24 16:24:51 |