UVA - 10954 Add All（贪心+优先队列）

Problem F
Add All
Input: standard input
Output: standard output

Yup!! The problem name reflects your task; just add a set of numbers. But you may feel yourselves condescended, to write a C/C++ program just to add a set of numbers. Such a problem will simply question your erudition. So, let’s add some flavor of ingenuity to it.

 

Addition operation requires cost now, and the cost is the summation of those two to be added. So, to add 1 and 10, you need a cost of 11. If you want to add 1, 2 and 3. There are several ways –

 

1 + 2 = 3, cost = 3 3 + 3 = 6, cost = 6 Total = 9

1 + 3 = 4, cost = 4 2 + 4 = 6, cost = 6 Total = 10

2 + 3 = 5, cost = 5 1 + 5 = 6, cost = 6 Total = 11

 

I hope you have understood already your mission, to add a set of integers so that the cost is minimal.

 

Input

Each test case will start with a positive number, N (2 ≤ N ≤ 5000) followed by N positive integers (all are less than 100000). Input is terminated by a case where the value of N is zero. This case should not be processed.

 

Output

For each case print the minimum total cost of addition in a single line.

 

Sample Input                           Output for Sample Input

3 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 0

9 19

题目大意：
在数组中拿出两个数相加，再把结果放回数组中再如此反复，求最小的结果是多少，典型的哈弗曼编码的题目。

思路：使用贪心策略，每次都在数组中取出最小的两个数相加，由此得到的结果最小。使用优先队列较为简单。

总结：这题刚刚开始的时候想太简单了，以为每次去两个小的数相加，然后把这个数和后面的数相加以此类推，就好了后来WA了一发，查看了网络上的题解才知道要用优先队列进行优化。

#include <cstdio>
#include <cstring>
#include <queue>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;
int main() {
	int n;
	while(scanf("%d",&n) != EOF && n) {
		priority_queue<int,vector<int>,greater<int> > q;
		int num;	
		for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
			scanf("%d",&num);
			q.push(num);
		}
		int cost,sum = 0;
		int tmp1,tmp2;
		while(q.size() >= 2) {
			tmp1 = q.top();
			q.pop();
			tmp2 = q.top();
			q.pop();
			cost = tmp1 + tmp2;
			sum += cost;
			q.push(cost);
		}
		printf("%d\n",sum);
	}
	return 0;
}