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IOIPALIN - Palindrome 2000 |
A palindrome is a symmetrical string, that is, a string read identically from left to right as well as from right to left. You are to write a program which, given a string, determines the minimal number of characters to be inserted into the string in order to obtain a palindrome. As an example, by inserting 2 characters, the string "Ab3bd" can be transformed into a palindrome ("dAb3bAd" or "Adb3bdA"). However, inserting fewer than 2 characters does not produce a palindrome.
Input
The first line contains one integer: the length of the input string N, 3 ≤ N ≤ 5000. The second line contains one string with length N. The string is formed from uppercase letters from ‘A’ to ‘Z’, lowercase letters from ‘a’ to ‘z’ and digits from ‘0’ to ‘9’. Uppercase and lowercase letters are to be considered distinct.
Output
The first line contains one integer, which is the desired minimal number.
Example
Input: 5 Ab3bd Output: 2
Added by: | Gareev |
Date: | 2010-08-16 |
Time limit: | 1s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: NODEJS OBJC PERL6 VB.NET |
Resource: | IOI 2000, Day 1 |
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2013-03-08 16:41:40 Michal Polivka
Time limit is wrong for this problem... |
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2012-12-22 20:13:44 符号器
ny 1 got AC by O(N^2)??????????? |
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2012-07-31 12:01:50 Rishi Mukherje
Solving AIBOHP took a day. Solving this one took 5mins. :D |
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2012-04-07 18:08:52 Rajkiran Rajkumar
Can you please check my code? It fails after 10 test files :( Same logic as AIBOHP but optimised. |
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2011-05-30 02:23:26 Santiago Palacio
Does the Case matters (a != A) ? Last edit: 2011-05-30 02:23:47 |
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2011-05-27 07:46:28 pankaj
reduction of problem is needed. |
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2010-08-18 07:00:13 Nikhil Garg
Try optimizing on space. ;-) |
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2010-08-16 19:34:03 Ravi Kiran
O(N^2) with optimisations can pass. Also try AIBOHP first. Last edit: 2010-08-16 19:42:41 |