比赛 C - Optimal Parking

Description

When shopping on Long Street, Michael usually parks his car at some random location, and then walks to the stores he needs.
Can you help Michael choose a place to park which minimises the distance he needs to walk on his shopping round?
Long Street is a straight line, where all positions are integer.
You pay for parking in a specific slot, which is an integer position on Long Street. Michael does not want to pay for more than one parking though. He is very strong, and does not mind carrying all the bags around.

 

Input

The first line of input gives the number of test cases, 1 <= t <= 100. There are two lines for each test case. The first gives the number of stores Michael wants to visit, 1 <= n <= 20, and the second gives their n integer positions on Long Street, 0 <= xi <= 99.

 

Output

Output for each test case a line with the minimal distance Michael must walk given optimal parking.

 

Sample Input

    
    

     
     2
4
24 13 89 37
6
7 30 41 14 39 42
    
    

 

Sample Output

    
    

     
     152
70
    
    

 

简单的水题。需要良好的数学思维，主要思想就是如果一个一个的走的话，每个地点都要走来回两遍，所以，可以看做是一个数轴：

                0 ——13 —— 24 —— 37 ——— 89———如果这样的话，可以转换成从最小值走到最大值，这样相当于只走了红色线部分：

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    int n,m;
    int a[105];
    cin>>n;
    while(n--)
    {
        cin>>m;
        for(int i=1;i<=m;i++)
        {
            cin>>a[i];
        }
        int min=1000;
        int max=0;
        for(int i=1;i<=m;i++)
        {
            if(min>a[i])
                min=a[i];
            if(max<a[i])
                max=a[i];
        }
        cout<<(max-min)*2<<endl;
    }
    return 0;
}