POJ3276—Face The Right Way 【常用技巧—反转（开关问题）】

Face The Right Way
Time Limit: 2000MS Memory Limit: 65536K
Total Submissions: 5944 Accepted: 2749

Description

Farmer John has arranged his N (1 ≤ N ≤ 5,000) cows in a row and many
of them are facing forward, like good cows. Some of them are facing
backward, though, and he needs them all to face forward to make his
life perfect.

Fortunately, FJ recently bought an automatic cow turning machine.Since he purchased the discount model, it must be irrevocably presetto turn K (1 ≤ K ≤ N) cows at once, and it can only turn cows that are all standing next to each other in line. Each time the machine isused, it reverses the facing direction of a contiguous group of K cows in the line (one cannot use it on fewer than K cows, e.g., at theeither end of the line of cows). Each cow remains in the same location as before, but ends up facing the opposite direction. A cow that starts out facing forward will be turned backward by the machine and vice-versa.

Because FJ must pick a single, never-changing value of K, please help him determine the minimum value of K that minimizes the number of operations required by the machine to make all the cows face forward.Also determine M, the minimum number of machine operations required to get all the cows facing forward using that value of K.