The task is really simple: given N exits on a highway which forms a simple cycle, you are supposed to tell the shortest distance between any pair of exits.
Input Specification:
Each input file contains one test case. For each case, the first line contains an integer N (in [3,10^5]), followed by N integer distances D1 D2 ⋯ DN,where Di is the distance between the i-th and the (i+1)-st exits, and DN
is between the N-th and the 1st exits. All the numbers in a line are separated by a space. The second line gives a positive integer M (≤10^4), with M lines follow, each contains a pair of exit numbers, provided that the exits are numbered from 1 to N. It is guaranteed that the total round trip distance is no more than 10^7.
Output Specification:
For each test case, print your results in M lines, each contains the shortest distance between the corresponding given pair of exits.
Sample Input:
5 1 2 4 14 9
3
1 3
2 5
4 1
Sample Output:
3
10
7
这道题的大概意思是有一个圆环,有几座城市,输入的第一行数代表了5个城市,后面五个数代表该城市到后一个城市的距离,下面几行是一些要求,从某个城市到某个城市,需要求出最短需要多少距离。
解题思路:由于是环形,所以每个城市到另一个城市都会有两条路,顺时针和逆时针,我们可以用前缀和求两城市之间的距离,即按照所给的这个顺序正着走,再把总的距离求出来,减去正着走的就是另一条路的距离,比较这两个哪个小输出哪个。
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int N,dis[100000],sum[100001];
cin>>N;sum[1]=0;
for(int i=0;i<N;i++) cin>>dis[i];
for(int i=2;i<=N;i++) sum[i]=sum[i-1]+dis[i-2];//前缀和
int M,a,b,d1,d2;
cin>>M;
for(int i=0;i<M;i++) {
d1=d2=0;
cin>>a>>b;
if(a>b) {
int temp=b;
b=a;
a=temp;
}
d1=sum[b]-sum[a];
d2=sum[N]+dis[N-1]-d1;
if(d1<d2) cout<<d1<<endl;
else cout<<d1<<endl;
}
}