题目原文
Broken Necklace是section 1.1 里面的最后一题,原文如下
Broken Necklace
You have a necklace of N red, white, or blue beads (3<=N<=350) some of which are red, others blue, and others white, arranged at random. Here are two examples for n=29:
1 2 1 2 r b b r b r r b r b b b r r b r r r w r b r w w b b r r b b b b b b r b r r b r b r r r b r r r r r r b r b r r r w Figure A Figure B r red bead b blue bead w white bead
The beads considered first and second in the text that follows have been marked in the picture.
The configuration in Figure A may be represented as a string of b's and r's, where b represents a blue bead and r represents a red one, as follows: brbrrrbbbrrrrrbrrbbrbbbbrrrrb .
Suppose you are to break the necklace at some point, lay it out straight, and then collect beads of the same color from one end until you reach a bead of a different color, and do the same for the other end (which might not be of the same color as the beads collected before this).
Determine the point where the necklace should be broken so that the most number of beads can be collected.
Example
For example, for the necklace in Figure A, 8 beads can be collected, with the breaking point either between bead 9 and bead 10 or else between bead 24 and bead 25.
In some necklaces, white beads had been included as shown in Figure B above. When collecting beads, a white bead that is encountered may be treated as either red or blue and then painted with the desired color. The string that represents this configuration can include any of the three symbols r, b and w.
Write a program to determine the largest number of beads that can be collected from a supplied necklace.
PROGRAM NAME: beads
INPUT FORMAT
Line 1: | N, the number of beads |
Line 2: | a string of N characters, each of which is r, b, or w |
SAMPLE INPUT (file beads.in)
29 wwwbbrwrbrbrrbrbrwrwwrbwrwrrb
OUTPUT FORMAT
A single line containing the maximum of number of beads that can be collected from the supplied necklace.
SAMPLE OUTPUT (file beads.out)
11
OUTPUT EXPLANATION
Consider two copies of the beads (kind of like being able to runaround the ends). The string of 11 is marked.
Two necklace copies joined here v wwwbbrwrbrbrrbrbrwrwwrbwrwrrb|wwwbbrwrbrbrrbrbrwrwwrbwrwrrb ******|***** rrrrrb bbbbb <-- assignments rrrrr#bbbbbb 5 x r 6 x b <-- 11 total
分析
代码如下:
/*
ID:
PROG: beads
LANG: C++
*/
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main() {
ofstream fout ("beads.out");
ifstream fin ("beads.in");
int N;
fin >> N;
string necklace;
fin >> necklace;
int max=0;
for (int i=0;i<N;i++)
{
int count=2;
int j=(i+1)%N;
char bead = necklace[j];
while(true)
{
j = (j+1)%N;
if(bead == 'w')
bead = necklace[j];
if((necklace[j%N]!=bead && necklace[j%N]!='w')||i==j)
break;
else
count++;
}
if(i==j)
{
max = count;
break;
}
j = i;
bead = necklace[j];
while(true)
{
j = (j-1+N)%N;
if(bead == 'w')
bead = necklace[j];
if((necklace[(j+N)%N]!=bead && necklace[(j+N)%N]!='w')||(i==j))
break;
else
count++;
if(count==N)
break;
}
if(count > max)
max = count;
}
fout << max;
fout << endl;
return 0;
}
提交结果
TASK: beads LANG: C++ Compiling... Compile: OK Executing... Test 1: TEST OK [0.005 secs, 3496 KB] Test 2: TEST OK [0.005 secs, 3496 KB] Test 3: TEST OK [0.005 secs, 3496 KB] Test 4: TEST OK [0.008 secs, 3496 KB] Test 5: TEST OK [0.005 secs, 3496 KB] Test 6: TEST OK [0.003 secs, 3496 KB] Test 7: TEST OK [0.008 secs, 3496 KB] Test 8: TEST OK [0.005 secs, 3496 KB] Test 9: TEST OK [0.008 secs, 3496 KB] All tests OK
官方给出的参考答案
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <assert.h>
#define MAXN 400
char necklace[MAXN];
int len;
/*
* Return n mod m. The C % operator is not enough because
* its behavior is undefined on negative numbers.
*/
int
mod(int n, int m)
{
while(n < 0)
n += m;
return n%m;
}
/*
* Calculate number of beads gotten by breaking
* before character p and going in direction dir,
* which is 1 for forward and -1 for backward.
*/
int
nbreak(int p, int dir)
{
char color;
int i, n;
color = 'w';
/* Start at p if going forward, bead before if going backward */
if(dir > 0)
i = p;
else
i = mod(p-1, len);
/* We use "n<len" to cut off loops that go around the whole necklace */
for(n=0; n<len; n++, i=mod(i+dir, len)) {
/* record which color we're going to collect */
if(color == 'w' && necklace[i] != 'w')
color = necklace[i];
/*
* If we've chosen a color and see a bead
* not white and not that color, stop
*/
if(color != 'w' && necklace[i] != 'w' && necklace[i] != color)
break;
}
return n;
}
void
main(void)
{
FILE *fin, *fout;
int i, n, m;
fin = fopen("beads.in", "r");
fout = fopen("beads.out", "w");
assert(fin != NULL && fout != NULL);
fscanf(fin, "%d %s", &len, necklace);
assert(strlen(necklace) == len);
m = 0;
for(i=0; i<len; i++) {
n = nbreak(i, 1) + nbreak(i, -1);
if(n > m)
m = n;
}
/*
* If the whole necklace can be gotten with a good
* break, we'll sometimes count beads more than
* once. this can only happen when the whole necklace
* can be taken, when beads that can be grabbed from
* the right of the break can also be grabbed from the left.
*/
if(m > len)
m = len;
fprintf(fout, "%d\n", m);
exit (0);
}
上述方法都需要遍历每个元素向两侧做环状搜索,这样的算法复杂度比较高,最坏的情况是O(n^2)(?)如果在原有字符串的后面再加上一串相同的字符串,就可以把环状的项链用一个线性字符串表示,例如wbwbwb,可以看成(wbwbwb,wbwbwb)。这样,可以分别计算对于任意一个切断点上,往左或往右可以取得最多的字符个数。以往左边取为例,用r[p]和b[p]分别表示在p点打断项链可以取得红色和蓝色珠子的个数,c表示下个字符的值,具体过程如下:
r[0] = p[0] = 0 If c = 'r' then r[p+1] = r[p] + 1 and b[p+1] = 0 because the length of the blue beads is 0. if c = 'b' then b[p+1] = b[p] + 1 and r[p+1] = 0 if c = 'w' then both length of the red and length of blue beads can be longer. so r[p+1] = r[p]+1 and b[p+1] = b[p] + 1.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;
FILE *in,*out;
int main () {
in = fopen("beads.in", "r");
out = fopen ("beads.out", "w");
int n;
char tmp[400], s[800];
fscanf(in, "%d %s", &n, tmp);
strcpy(s, tmp);
strcat(s, tmp);
int left[800][2], right[800][2];
left[0][0] = left[0][1] = 0;
for (int i=1; i<= 2 * n; i++){
if (s[i - 1] == 'r'){
left[i][0] = left[i - 1][0] + 1;
left[i][1] = 0;
} else if (s[i - 1] == 'b'){
left[i][1] = left[i - 1][1] + 1;
left[i][0] = 0;
} else {
left[i][0] = left[i - 1][0] + 1;
left[i][1] = left[i - 1][1] + 1;
}
}
right[2 * n][0] = right[2 * n][1] = 0;
for (int i=2 * n - 1; i >= 0; i--){
if (s[i] == 'r'){
right[i][0] = right[i + 1][0] + 1;
right[i][1] = 0;
} else if (s[i] == 'b'){
right[i][1] = right[i + 1][1] + 1;
right[i][0] = 0;
} else {
right[i][0] = right[i + 1][0] + 1;
right[i][1] = right[i + 1][1] + 1;
}
}
int m = 0;
for (int i=0; i<2 * n; i++)
m = max(m, max(left[i][0], left[i][1]) + max(right[i][0], right[i][1]));
m = min(m, n);
fprintf(out, "%d\n", m);
fclose(in); fclose(out);
return 0;
}
这份代码里面,作者使用两个二维数组 int left[800][2], right[800][2]分别表示
left[r[p]], left[b[p]]),right[r[p]], right[b[p]],最后比较取得最大值。
/* This solution simply changes the string s into ss, then for every starting
// symbol it checks if it can make a sequence simply by repeatedly checking
// if a sequence can be found that is longer than the current maximum one.
*/
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
fstream input, output;
string inputFilename = "beads.in", outputFilename = "beads.out";
input.open(inputFilename.c_str(), ios::in);
output.open(outputFilename.c_str(), ios::out);
int n, max=0, current, state, i, j;
string s;
char c;
input >> n >> s;
s = s+s;
for(i=0; i<n; i++) {
c = (char) s[i];
if(c == 'w')
state = 0;
else
state = 1;
j = i;
current = 0;
while(state <= 2) {
// dont go further in second string than starting position in first string
while(j<n+i && (s[j] == c || s[j] == 'w')) {
current++;
j++;
} // while
state++;
c = s[j];
} // while
if(current > max)
max = current;
} // for
output << max << endl;
return 0;
} // main