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WORDS1 - Play on Words |
Some of the secret doors contain a very interesting word puzzle. The team of archaeologists has to solve it to open that doors. Because there is no other way to open the doors, the puzzle is very important for us.
There is a large number of magnetic plates on every door. Every plate has one word written on it. The plates must be arranged into a sequence in such a way that every word begins with the same letter as the previous word ends. For example, the word ``acm'' can be followed by the word ``motorola''. Your task is to write a computer program that will read the list of words and determine whether it is possible to arrange all of the plates in a sequence (according to the given rule) and consequently to open the door.
Input
The input consists of T test cases. The number of them (T, equal to about 500) is given on
the first line of the input file.
Each test case begins with a line containing a single integer number N that indicates the number of plates
(1 <= N <= 100000). Then exactly Nlines follow,
each containing a single word. Each word contains at least two
and at most 1000 lowercase characters, that means only letters 'a
'
through 'z
' will appear in the word. The same word may appear several
times in the list.
Output
Your program has to determine whether it is possible to arrange all the plates in a sequence such that the first letter of each word is equal to the last letter of the previous word. All the plates from the list must be used, each exactly once. The words mentioned several times must be used that number of times.
If there exists such an ordering of plates, your program should print
the sentence "Ordering is possible.
". Otherwise, output
the sentence "The door cannot be opened.
".
Example
Sample input: 3 2 acm ibm 3 acm malform mouse 2 ok ok Sample output: The door cannot be opened. Ordering is possible. The door cannot be opened.
Warning: large Input/Output data, be careful with certain languages
Added by: | adrian |
Date: | 2004-06-06 |
Time limit: | 20s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All |
Resource: | ACM Central European Programming Contest, Prague 1999 |
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2016-07-31 11:36:23
Great Problem. :) |
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2016-06-30 17:03:37
thanks to Eliton! helped a lot! AC |
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2016-05-07 20:46:06
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_path |
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2015-07-21 15:40:29 Gaurav kumar
nice concept... |
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2015-01-01 19:24:27 Mayank Ladia
how can it be done in 0.00 ... my in 0.01sec... |
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2014-12-31 01:05:53 Rajat (1307086)
Nice problem.............needs practice to judge such types of problems. |
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2014-12-30 22:57:33 surayans tiwari(http://bit.ly/1EPzcpv)
wiki helps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulerian_path |
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2013-12-24 11:45:35 Martijn Muijsers
Nice problem :) O(n). |
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2013-09-22 06:41:57 Shreyans
@abi, we can definitely use c or c++, we can easily make the array of size more than 1000, even upto upper limit of integer...because array index is always unsigned integer |