题意:
用一个7位的string代表一个编号,两个编号之间的distance代表这两个编号之间不同字母的个数。一个编号只能由另一个编号“衍生”出来,代价是这两个编号之间相应的distance,现在要找出一个“衍生”方案,使得总代价最小,也就是distance之和最小。
思路
首先计算出任意两个string之间的距离,然后对Kruskal添加边,计算最小生成树即可.
由于本题是完全图,所以一定存在最小生成树.
代码
#include <algorithm>
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
const int N = 2010;
const int M = 2000 * 2000 + 10;
struct Edge {
int u, v, dis;
bool operator< ( const Edge &rhs ) const { return dis < rhs.dis; }
};
struct Kruskal {
int n, m;
Edge edges[ M ];
int fa[ N ];
int findset ( int x ) { return fa[ x ] == -1 ? x : fa[ x ] = findset ( fa[ x ] ); }
void init ( int _n ) {
n = _n;
m = 0;
memset ( fa, -1, sizeof ( fa ) );
}
void AddEdge ( int u, int v, int d ) { edges[ m++ ] = Edge{u, v, d}; }
int kruskal () {
int sum = 0, cnt = 0;
sort ( edges, edges + m );
for ( int i = 0; i < m; ++i ) {
int u = edges[ i ].u, v = edges[ i ].v;
if ( findset ( u ) != findset ( v ) ) {
fa[ findset ( u ) ] = findset ( v );
sum += edges[ i ].dis;
if ( ++cnt >= n - 1 )
return sum;
}
}
return -1;
}
} KK;
char str[ N ][ 8 ];
int getdis ( int u, int v ) {
int cnt = 0;
for ( int i = 0; i < 7; ++i )
if ( str[ u ][ i ] != str[ v ][ i ] )
++cnt;
return cnt;
}
int main () {
int n;
while ( scanf ( "%d", &n ) && n ) {
for ( int i = 0; i < n; ++i )
scanf ( "%s", str[ i ] );
KK.init ( n );
for ( int i = 0; i < n; ++i )
for ( int j = i + 1; j < n; ++j )
KK.AddEdge ( i, j, getdis ( i, j ) );
int sol = KK.kruskal ();
printf ( "The highest possible quality is 1/%d.\n", sol );
}
return 0;
}