Face The Right Way
Time Limit: 2000MS Memory Limit: 65536K
Total Submissions: 1833 Accepted: 860
Description
Farmer John has arranged his N (1 ≤ N ≤ 5,000) cows in a row and many of them are facing forward, like good cows. Some of them are facing backward, though, and he needs them all to face forward to make his life perfect.
Fortunately, FJ recently bought an automatic cow turning machine. Since he purchased the discount model, it must be irrevocably preset to turn K (1 ≤ K ≤ N) cows at once, and it can only turn cows that are all standing next to each other in line. Each time the machine is used, it reverses the facing direction of a contiguous group of K cows in the line (one cannot use it on fewer than K cows, e.g., at the either end of the line of cows). Each cow remains in the same *location* as before, but ends up facing the *opposite direction*. A cow that starts out facing forward will be turned backward by the machine and vice-versa.
Because FJ must pick a single, never-changing value of K, please help him determine the minimum value of K that minimizes the number of operations required by the machine to make all the cows face forward. Also determine M, the minimum number of machine operations required to get all the cows facing forward using that value of K.
Input
Line 1: A single integer: N
Lines 2..N+1: Line i+1 contains a single character, F or B, indicating whether cow i is facing forward or backward.
Output
Line 1: Two space-separated integers: K and M
Sample Input
7
B
B
F
B
F
B
BSample Output
3 3Hint
For K = 3, the machine must be operated three times: turn cows (1,2,3), (3,4,5), and finally (5,6,7)
Source
USACO 2007 March Gold
題意:
N個牛 每個都有一定的方向 B背對 F表示頭對著你 給你一個裝置 每次可以選擇連續的K個牛反轉方向 問你如何選擇K 使得操作數最少 k也應盡量小
//思路: 從第一個開始找如果當前為B 就需要改變 改變i到i+k-1的位置 //一直找到n-k+1處 之後判斷從n-k+2到n是否滿足了題意 注意不要真的去修改 //用一個sum值標記前面k-1個修改了多少次用來決定當前的是否要修改 利用尺取法 即前後推進 #include<stdio.h> #include<string.h> int a[5100],n,flag[5100]; int solve(int k) { int i; memset(flag,0,sizeof(flag));//flag[i]表示區間[i,i+k-1] 是否需要翻轉 int sum=0,cnt=0;//前k-1個轉變的次數 for(i=1;i<=n-k+1;i++)//sum記錄走到當前i,其前面k-1個翻轉了多少次 { if(i-k>=1) { sum-=flag[i-k]; } if(a[i]==0&&sum%2==0)//如果是B 且前面翻轉了偶數次 仍舊需要翻轉 { flag[i]=1; sum+=flag[i]; cnt++; } else if(a[i]==1&&sum%2==1)//如果是F 且前面翻轉了奇數次 { flag[i]=1; sum+=flag[i]; cnt++; } // printf("i=%d flag[i]=%d\n",i,flag[i]); } for(i;i<=n;i++) { if(i-k>=1) { sum-=flag[i-k]; } if(sum%2==0&&a[i]==0) return -1; else if(sum%2==1&&a[i]==1) return -1; } return cnt; } int main() { int i,k,mn; char s[2]; while(scanf("%d",&n)!=EOF) { mn=100010000; for(i=1;i<=n;i++) { scanf("%s",s); if(s[0]=='B') a[i]=0; else if(s[0]=='F') a[i]=1; } k=1; for(i=1;i<=n;i++) { int mid=solve(i); //printf("k=%d,cnt=%d\n",i,mid); if(mid==-1) continue; if(mn>mid) {mn=mid;k=i;} } printf("%d %d\n",k,mn); } return 0; }