AGGRCOW - Aggressive cows
Farmer John has built a new long barn, with N (2 <= N <= 100,000)
stalls. The stalls are located along a straight line at positions
x1 ... xN (0 <= xi <= 1,000,000,000).
His C (2 <= C <= N) cows don't like this barn layout and become
aggressive towards each other once put into a stall. To prevent the
cows from hurting each other, FJ wants to assign the cows to the
stalls, such that the minimum distance between any two of them is
as large as possible. What is the largest minimum distance?
Input
t – the number of test cases, then t test cases follows.
* Line 1: Two space-separated integers: N and C
* Lines 2..N+1: Line i+1 contains an integer stall location, xi
Output
For each test case output one integer: the largest minimum distance.
Example
Input:
1 5 3 1 2 8 4 9
Output:
3
Output details:
FJ can put his 3 cows in the stalls at positions 1, 4 and 8,
resulting in
a minimum distance of 3.
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angrysum:
2018-11-26 10:35:15
@lapmid, you need to find that particular positions set for cows such that minimum distance of that particular set is largest among other sets. |
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vritta:
2018-11-20 02:31:24
For those who are not able to understand the approach to solve, this may help -
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suraj_13:
2018-11-02 11:02:34
Classic question, impressive way of using binary-search. |
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suraj_13:
2018-11-02 11:01:46
Those who are unable to solve refer to Topcoder tutorial: https://www.topcoder.com/community/competitive-programming/tutorials/binary-search and Commonlounge : https://www.commonlounge.com/discussion/a8cb881fae1946b5b689858a71e70558/37c42cbbcfa14644a94f08f69bd741d1 |
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mayank_code:
2018-10-29 04:37:27
Finally AC :)
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artistic_15:
2018-10-24 18:58:55
Very Good Problem. I didn't even knew we can implement binary search this way :) |
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cenation092:
2018-10-18 18:01:27
This will help you in, How to come up with binary search solution https://journeywithdp.blogspot.com/2018/10/how-to-approach-binary-search-problems.html Last edit: 2018-10-18 18:01:43 |
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victor_ludorum:
2018-10-16 16:41:57
For Those who are struggling to identify how it is binary search will check the topcoder tutorial. Basically last example of this article : https://www.topcoder.com/community/competitive-programming/tutorials/binary-search
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codeinfinity:
2018-10-06 07:10:42
what is worst that happend with you in life?
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mohamedhamada:
2018-09-10 15:00:51
Got AC :D |
Added by: | Roman Sol |
Date: | 2005-02-16 |
Time limit: | 2s |
Source limit: | 10000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All |
Resource: | USACO February 2005 Gold Division |