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CANDY - Candy I |
Jennifer is a teacher in the first year of a primary school. She has gone for a trip with her class today. She has taken a packet of candies for each child. Unfortunately, the sizes of the packets are not the same.
Jennifer is afraid that each child will want to have the biggest packet of candies and this will lead to quarrels or even fights among children. She wants to avoid this. Therefore, she has decided to open all the packets, count the candies in each packet and move some candies from bigger packets to smaller ones so that each packet will contain the same number of candies. The question is how many candies she has to move.
Input specification
The input file consists of several blocks of data. Each block starts with the number of candy packets N (1<= N <=10000) followed by N integers (each less than 1000) in separate lines, giving the number of candies in each packet. After the last block of data there is the number -1.
Output specification
The output file should contain one line with the smallest number of moves for each block of data. One move consists of taking one candy from a packet and putting it into another one. If it is not possible to have the same number of candies in each packet, output the number -1.
Example
Input file: 5 1 1 1 1 6 2 3 4 -1 Output file: 4 -1
Added by: | Fudan University Problem Setters |
Date: | 2007-12-01 |
Time limit: | 1s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: C99 ERL JS-RHINO |
Resource: | IPSC 1999 |
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2012-08-29 05:19:56 Erwin Saul Serrudo Condori
TLE? why? HELP PLEASE!!! |
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2012-08-18 06:56:55 shubh_211
@vikash001, output is -1 because it is impossible to equally divide 7(3+4) candies between two persons |
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2012-08-17 21:52:46 vikash
in the last case n = 2 3 4 moves is 1 from 4 to 3 but output is -1 plz sugest how it possible |
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2012-08-12 15:02:20 gourav
yoo! third problem on spoj :) |
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2012-07-30 15:47:08 prudhvi _krishna
oh no!! everytime getting WA. is there any tricky test case? |
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2012-04-29 23:24:55 Mitch Schwartz
@Byron: Read carefully; I was not referring to N, I was referring to the values of the N integers after that. Based on my test (and initial WA), at least one of these values is 1000 in the input data, which contradicts problem description's guarantee that they are strictly less than 1000. Last edit: 2012-04-29 23:45:59 |
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2012-04-29 16:39:45 Vyron Drosos
@mitch schwartz no it says 10000 not 1000. |
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2012-04-08 22:11:14 Darky
Damn..python is slow :X |
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2012-03-16 06:13:03 Shekhar
Plz provide some more typical test cases !! |
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2011-10-10 07:50:10 pfiesteria
Note:One move consists of taking "one candy"(not candies) from a packet and putting it into another one. |