PPATH - Prime Path
The ministers of the cabinet were quite upset by the
message from the Chief of Security stating that they
would all have to change the four-digit room numbers
on their offices.
— It is a matter of security to change such things
every now and then, to keep the enemy in the dark.
— But look, I have chosen my number 1033 for good
reasons. I am the Prime minister, you know!
— I know, so therefore your new number 8179 is also
a prime. You will just have to paste four new
digits over the four old ones on your office door.
— No, it's not that simple. Suppose that I change the
first digit to an 8, then the number will read 8033
which is not a prime!
— I see, being the prime minister you cannot stand
having a non-prime number on your door even for a
few seconds.
— Correct! So I must invent a scheme for going from
1033 to 8179 by a path of prime numbers where
only one digit is changed from one prime to the
next prime.
Now, the minister of finance, who had been eavesdropping,
intervened.
— No unnecessary expenditure, please! I happen to
know that the price of a digit is one pound.
— Hmm, in that case I need a computer program to
minimize the cost. You don't know some very cheap
software gurus, do you?
— In fact, I do. You see, there is this programming
contest going on...
Help the prime minister to find the cheapest prime path between any two given four-digit primes! The first digit must be nonzero, of course. Here is a solution in the case above.
1033 1733 3733 3739 3779 8779 8179The cost of this solution is 6 pounds. Note that the digit 1 which got pasted over in step 2 can not be reused in the last step – a new 1 must be purchased.
Input
One line with a positive number: the number of test cases (at most 100). Then for each test case, one line with two numbers separated by a blank. Both numbers are four-digit primes (without leading zeros).
Output
One line for each case, either with a number stating the minimal cost or containing the word Impossible.
Example
Input: 3 1033 8179 1373 8017 1033 1033 Output: 6 7 0
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Swapnil Borse:
2015-01-02 08:49:38
Piece of Cake!! Simple BFS it is!!! Skilled implementation is the key though :P |
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agaurav77:
2014-12-27 16:36:21
This one is a super awesome one. Those who don't get how to start, here's a hint : Think of Dijkstra !
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Gaurav Bansal:
2014-12-24 08:14:36
these type of questions illustrates why programming is awesome!! |
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yagyank:
2014-11-29 22:05:17
weak test cases!!! |
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mayank:
2014-11-20 07:24:26
the importance of '=' operator. '<=' and '<' can be the margin of difference of WA AC. Silliest mistake ever done! :'( .
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programmer92:
2014-11-09 10:33:24
GOOD QUESTION Last edit: 2014-11-09 10:36:12 |
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ankit bisla:
2014-11-09 08:10:17
My 50th!!AC in first go :) Last edit: 2014-11-09 08:10:42 |
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do_do:
2014-11-08 19:17:02
Nice problem.. taught me a lot :P |
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Ishant :
2014-11-08 19:04:25
nice question :) |
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eti goel:
2014-10-12 21:18:42
my first graph problem..:P :P
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Added by: | overwise |
Date: | 2007-10-02 |
Time limit: | 2s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: ERL JS-RHINO NODEJS PERL6 VB.NET |
Resource: | ACM ICPC NWERC 2006 |