The magic shop in Mars is offering some magic coupons. Each coupon has an integer N printed on it, meaning that when you use this coupon with a product, you may get N times the value of that product back! What is more, the shop also offers some bonus product for free. However, if you apply a coupon with a positive N to this bonus product, you will have to pay the shop N times the value of the bonus product... but hey, magically, they have some coupons with negative N's!
For example, given a set of coupons {1 2 4 -1}, and a set of product values {7 6 -2 -3} (in Mars dollars M$) where a negative value corresponds to a bonus product. You can apply coupon 3 (with N being 4) to product 1 (with value M$7) to get M$28 back; coupon 2 to product 2 to get M$12 back; and coupon 4 to product 4 to get M$3 back. On the other hand, if you apply coupon 3 to product 4, you will have to pay M$12 to the shop.
Each coupon and each product may be selected at most once. Your task is to get as much money back as possible.
Input Specification:
Each input file contains one test case. For each case, the first line contains the number of coupons NC, followed by a line with NC coupon integers. Then the next line contains the number of products NP, followed by a line with NP product values. Here 1<= NC, NP <= 105, and it is guaranteed that all the numbers will not exceed 230.
Output Specification:
For each test case, simply print in a line the maximum amount of money you can get back.
Sample Input:4 1 2 4 -1 4 7 6 -2 -3Sample Output:
43
思路:读入coupon和product数组后,先对它们进行排序,按照相同的顺序,比如从小到大。然后分别从首尾两个方向扫描数组,进行累加。从头向尾扫描时,必须要求coupon和product数组中对应元素都为负数才将它们的乘积累加到sum,否则停止扫描;从尾向头扫描时,要求coupon和product数组中对应元素都为正数才将它们的乘积累加到sum,否则停止扫描。
注意:当读到文件末尾(EOF)时,while循环就必须停止。hdu 3794与此类似,需要进一步判断读取到的NC非负。
下面是算法的代码,在PAT上测试通过。
// Magic Coupon - PAT 1037
// by btwsmile
#include<iostream>
#include<algorithm>
using namespace std;
int coupon[1000000];
int product[1000000];
int main()
{
int coupon_cnt, product_cnt;
bool bFirstCase = true;
while(cin>>coupon_cnt && coupon_cnt > 0) {
for(int i = 0; i < coupon_cnt; ++i)
cin>>coupon[i];
cin>>product_cnt;
for(int i = 0; i < product_cnt; ++i)
cin>>product[i];
// sort array
sort(coupon, coupon + coupon_cnt);
sort(product, product + product_cnt);
// calculate
int sum = 0;
int steps = (coupon_cnt < product_cnt) ? coupon_cnt : product_cnt;
// backward
for(int i = 0; i < steps; ++i) {
if(coupon[i] >= 0 || product[i] >= 0)
break; // stop for loop
sum += coupon[i] * product[i];
}
// forward
for(int i = 0; i < steps; ++i) {
if(coupon[coupon_cnt - 1 - i] <= 0 ||
product[product_cnt - 1 -i] <= 0)
break; // stop for loop
sum += coupon[coupon_cnt - 1 - i] * product[product_cnt - 1 - i];
}
// output
if(!bFirstCase) cout<<"\n";
cout<<sum;
if(bFirstCase) bFirstCase = false;
}
return 0;
}