UVA 11044 (13.08.07)

Searching for Nessy

The Loch Ness Monsterisa mysterious and unidentified animal said to inhabit Loch Ness, 
a large deep freshwaterloch near the cityof Inverness in northern Scotland. Nessie is usually categorized as a type oflake monster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster

In July 2003, the BBC reported an extensive investigation of Loch Ness by a BBCteam, using 600 separate sonar beams, found no trace of any ¨sea monster¨(i.e., any large animal, known or unknown) in the loch. The BBC team concludedthat Nessie does not exist. Now we want to repeat the experiment.

Given a grid of n rows and m columns representing the loch, 6n, m10000, find the minimum number s of sonar beams you must put in the square such that we can control every position in thegrid, with the following conditions:

• one sonar occupies one position in the grid; the sonar beam controls its own cell and the contiguous cells;
• the border cells do not need to be controlled, because Nessy cannot hide there (she is too big).

For example,

where X represents a sonar, and the shaded cells are controlled bytheir sonar beams; the last figure gives us a solution.

Input

The first line of the input contains an integer, t, indicating the number of test cases. For eachtest case, there is a line with two numbers separated by blanks, 6n, m10000, that is, the size of the grid (n rows and m columns).

Output

For each test case, the output should consist of one line showing the minimumnumber of sonars that verifies the conditions above.

Sample Input

 
3
6 6
7 7
9 13

Sample Output

 
4
4
12

题意: 在湖中设点, 一个点能覆盖周围八个格, 问需要多少个点能覆盖全湖 (除去边缘的格子)

做法: 看过网上的解题代码, 有什么n, n-1, n-2拿去对3去整之类的, 纯属找麻烦!

分析一下, 一个点覆盖九个格, 可占3行3列, 是吧?

那么对于行来说:

3, 4, 5行的情况需要一个点

6, 7, 8行的情况需要两个点

9, 10, 11 需要三个点, 你们看出来了吗?

点数 = 行数 / 3

同理, 对列也一样

所以读取行n, 列m后, 直接 n / 3 * m / 3 就行了

AC代码:

#include<stdio.h>

int main() {
    int T;
    int n, m;
    scanf("%d", &T);
    while(T--) {
        scanf("%d %d", &n, &m);
        n = n / 3;
        m = m / 3;
        printf("%d\n", n*m);
    }
    return 0;
}