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TRT - Treats for the Cows |
FJ has purchased N (1 <= N <= 2000) yummy treats for the cows who get money for giving vast amounts of milk. FJ sells one treat per day and wants to maximize the money he receives over a given period time. The treats are interesting for many reasons:
- The treats are numbered 1..N and stored sequentially in single file in a long box that is open at both ends. On any day, FJ can retrieve one treat from either end of his stash of treats.
- Like fine wines and delicious cheeses, the treats improve with age and command greater prices.
- The treats are not uniform: some are better and have higher intrinsic value. Treat i has value v(i) (1 <= v(i) <= 1000).
- Cows pay more for treats that have aged longer: a cow will pay v(i)*a for a treat of age a.
Given the values v(i) of each of the treats lined up in order of the index i in their box, what is the greatest value FJ can receive for them if he orders their sale optimally?
The first treat is sold on day 1 and has age a=1. Each subsequent day increases the age by 1.
Input
Line 1: A single integer, N
Lines 2..N+1: Line i+1 contains the value of treat v(i)
Output
The maximum revenue FJ can achieve by selling the treats
Example
Input: 5 1 3 1 5 2 Output: 43
Added by: | Nguyen Van Quang Huy |
Date: | 2006-02-15 |
Time limit: | 1s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: NODEJS PERL6 VB.NET |
Resource: | USACO FEB06 Gold Division |
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2016-06-22 21:01:44
My first thought was a 3D array for front,rear,age. But such large arrays can't be allocated.So think how age can be expressed in terms of front and rear and make 2D array for front,rear :) Happy coding! |
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2016-06-13 03:06:54
simple recursion+memorization ,,, |
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2016-06-01 12:46:21 Shivam Jha
a great tutorial for this by Michal Danilák . https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-good-resources-or-tutorials-for-dynamic-programming-besides-the-TopCoder-tutorial Read the very first answer of this question. |
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2016-05-25 08:16:18
It's not a greedy problem.u consider this test case u will get the ans 6 10 100 1 1 1 12 |
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2016-04-23 18:27:43
can anyone suggest test case where greedy approach fails |
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2016-03-20 20:28:16 Nikki
For those who don't understand here is my explanation to them: All you need to do here is to find the maximum profit constraint is that you can choose either the most left or most right. |
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2016-03-01 10:10:43
map+pair=>TLE 2-d array=>ac |
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2016-02-01 14:07:24
Nice 1! My 2nd Dp! ^_^ |
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2016-01-11 16:56:58
It took me 1 hour to come up with a test case where the greedy approach might fail. I was totally convinced that greedy is the way to go until i used a test case where all values are not distinct. Memorized Recursion for AC. |
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2016-01-01 16:23:04 Akshit Johry
great help sriharshaa :)) thank you |