Prime Path
Time Limit: 1000MS Memory Limit: 65536K
Total Submissions: 15588 Accepted: 8791
Description
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
8179
The 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.
Sample Input
3
1033 8179
1373 8017
1033 1033
Sample Output
6
7
0
#include<iostream>
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<queue>
using namespace std;
int T;
int n,m;
int p[10001];
int flag;
int ans=0;
int vis[10001];
queue <int> q;
void bfs()
{
ans=0;
flag=0;
memset(vis,0,sizeof(vis));
while(!q.empty()) q.pop();
vis[n]=1;
q.push(n);
while(flag==0&&!q.empty())
{
int now=q.front();
q.pop();
//cout<<now<<endl;
int N=1;
for(int i=1;i<=4;i++)
{
for(int j=0;j<=9;j++)
{
if(i==4&&j==0) continue;
int nex=now/(N*10)*N*10+N*j+now%N;
//cout<<nex<<endl;
if(!p[nex]&&!vis[nex])
{
vis[nex]=vis[now]+1;
if(nex==m)
{
ans=vis[now];
flag=1;
}
q.push(nex);
}
}
N*=10;
}
}
}
void init()
{
for(int i=2;i<=9999;i++)
if(p[i]==0)
{
for(int j=2*i;j<=9999;j+=i)
p[i]=1;
}
}
int main()
{
init();
scanf("%d",&T);
while(T--)
{
scanf("%d%d",&n,&m);
if(n==m)
{
printf("0\n");
continue;
}
bfs();
if(flag)
printf("%d\n",ans);
else printf("Impossible\n");
}
}