题目:
http://poj.org/problem?id=3579
题意:
求出n个数两两之间差的中间值。
思路:
二分, 判断函数是统计比num + x 大的数的个数, 再与C(n,2)进行比较以确定此差值是否正确。
CODE:
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
#include <algorithm>
const int inf=0xfffffff;
typedef long long ll;
using namespace std;
int num[100005], n, m;
bool can(int x)
{
int cnt = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
cnt += n - (lower_bound(num, num + n, num[i]+x) - num);
}
if(cnt > m) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
void solve()
{
int l = 0, r = num[n-1] - num[0];
while(r - l > 1) {
int mid = (r + l) / 2;
if(can(mid)) l = mid;
else r = mid;
}
printf("%d\n", l);
}
int main()
{
//freopen("in", "r", stdin);
while(~scanf("%d", &n)) {
m = n * (n - 1) / 4;
for(int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
scanf("%d", &num[i]);
}
sort(num, num + n);
solve();
}
return 0;
}