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back to boardCommon Boardplease help me , i need your help ; i have a problem that i can not resolve but it is not from this site Posted by GoGo 19 Aug 2001 17:00 My name is Calin Ciutu and i am from Romania. I am 16 years old , i study at the National College of Informatics . One of my friends send my an e-mail with a problem (a very hard one (for me) ) . After 2 weeks of thinking i am trying to find some one who can give me an idea . Here is the problem if you can help me somehow : Imagine a building with 40000 floors numberd from 0 up to 39999 . In this builing the lifts doesn't work . You receive some commands (not more then 5000) from your superiors : to get a package from floor i (0<=i<40000) to carry it to floor j(0<=j<40000). Very nervous you take all the commands and write them down : every command is codifyed with 2 numbers i and j (i means the floor from where you have to take the package and j means the floor where you have to take the package). You have to use the stairs. To go up 1 floor is very hard so it costs you 1 calorie , but to go down one or more floors it doesn't costs you nothing. The goal is to take all the packages to them destination with a minimum cost of calories. At the start you are at the floor numbered with "0" . You can carry only 1 package at a time . The order in witch you take the packages to them destinations doesn't matter . You can take a package from his source , drop it at another floor and after some time come and take it from here to another floor or to it's destination . INPUT: "input.txt" -the first line of the input contains a number: n -> the number of commands -the next n lines each contains a pair of numbers separated by a single space ("i j") witch means : i (0<=i<40000) = the floor from where to take a package and j (0<=j<40000)= the floor where you have to drop the package . OUTPUT: "output.txt" ->!attention! you have to find only the minimum cost of calories to take all packages to them destination not the way to do it with a minimum cost -one line containing the minimum cost of calories to take all packages to them destination Sample Input input.txt: 3 1 3 2 4 6 5 Sample Output output.txt 7 ------- {you go from 0 to 1 (1 calorie) ; you take the first package to 2 (1 calorie) you drop it and you take the second package to 3 where you drop it(1 calorie) ; you go down to 2 (0 calories) you take the first package to his destination (3) (1 calorie) here you find the second package and you take it to his destination (4) (1 calorie) ; now you go to 6 (2 calories) and take it to his destination (5) (0 calories) ; so the total is : 7 calories (there is many other modes to take the packages with 7 calories : 0->1->3->2->4->6->5)} Plese help me . calin ciutu zotax@home.ro |
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