Catch That Cow
Description
Farmer John has been informed of the location of a fugitive cow and wants to catch her immediately. He starts at a point N (0 ≤ N ≤ 100,000) on a number line and the cow is at a point K (0 ≤ K ≤ 100,000) on the same number line. Farmer John has two modes of transportation: walking and teleporting.
Walking: FJ can move from any point X to the points X - 1 or X + 1 in a single minute
Teleporting: FJ can move from any point X to the point 2 × X in a single minute.
If the cow, unaware of its pursuit, does not move at all, how long does it take for Farmer John to retrieve it?
Input
Line 1: Two space-separated integers: N and K
Output
Line 1: The least amount of time, in minutes, it takes for Farmer John to catch the fugitive cow.
Sample Input
5 17
Sample Output
4
BFS水题,本题最大的坑点在于对步数操作时,步数可能会超过标记数组的范围,因此在入队之前要判断一下值的大小,不能大于最大值,也不能小于0.
#include<cstdio>
#include<queue>
#include<cstring>
using namespace std;
typedef struct A
{
int val;
int mint;
}niu;
int a[1000010];
int main()
{
queue<niu> q;
int cow,obj,temp1;
memset(a,0,sizeof(a));
niu temp;
scanf("%d%d",&cow,&obj);
a[cow] = 1;
temp.val = cow;
temp.mint = 0;
q.push(temp);
while(q.front().val != obj && !q.empty())
{
temp1 = q.front().val-1;
if( temp1 >= 0 && temp1 <= 1000000 && a[temp1] == 0)//小技巧利用短路效应简化一下,a[temp1]放到后面
{
a[temp1] = 1;
temp.val = temp1;
temp.mint = q.front().mint+1;
q.push(temp);
}
temp1 = q.front().val+1;
if(temp1 >= 0 && temp1 <= 1000000 && a[temp1] == 0)
{
a[temp1] = 1;
temp.val = temp1;
temp.mint = q.front().mint+1;
q.push(temp);
}
temp1 = (q.front().val)*2;
if(temp1 >= 0 && temp1 <= 1000000 && a[temp1] == 0)
{
a[temp1] =1;
temp.val = temp1;
temp.mint = q.front().mint+1;
q.push(temp);
}
q.pop();
}
printf("%d\n",q.front().mint);
return 0;
}