Catch That Cow
Time Limit: 5000/2000 MS (Java/Others) Memory Limit: 32768/32768 K (Java/Others)
Total Submission(s): 10166 Accepted Submission(s): 3179
Problem Description
Farmer John has been informed of the location of a fugitive cow and wants to catch her immediately. He starts at a point N (0 ≤ N ≤ 100,000) on a number line and the cow is at a point K (0 ≤ K ≤ 100,000) on the same number line. Farmer John has two modes of transportation: walking and teleporting.
* Walking: FJ can move from any point X to the points X - 1 or X + 1 in a single minute
* Teleporting: FJ can move from any point X to the point 2 × X in a single minute.
If the cow, unaware of its pursuit, does not move at all, how long does it take for Farmer John to retrieve it?
Input
Line 1: Two space-separated integers: N and K
Output
Line 1: The least amount of time, in minutes, it takes for Farmer John to catch the fugitive cow.
Sample Input
5 17
Sample Output
4
Hint
The fastest way for Farmer John to reach the fugitive cow is to move along the following path: 5-10-9-18-17, which takes 4 minutes.
1 #include
2 #include
3 #include
4 #include
5 using namespacestd;6 intb,e;7 intMintim;8 structnode9 {10 intpos,t;11 }k,tem;12 int vis[100000+10];13 queues;14 voidbfs()15 {16 while(!s.empty())17 s.pop();18 k.pos=b,k.t=0;19 s.push(k);20 while(!s.empty())21 {22 k=s.front();23 s.pop();24 if(k.pos==e)25 {26 Mintim=k.t;27 return;28 }29 if(k.pos<0||k.pos>100000||vis[k.pos]) continue;30 vis[k.pos]=1;31 tem.t=k.t+1;32 tem.pos=k.pos+1;33 s.push(tem);34 tem.pos=k.pos-1;35 s.push(tem);36 tem.pos=k.pos*2;37 s.push(tem);38 }39 }40 intmain()41 {42 inti,j;43 freopen("in.txt","r",stdin);44 while(scanf("%d%d",&b,&e)!=EOF)45 {46 memset(vis,0,sizeof(vis));47 bfs();48 printf("%d\n",Mintim);49 }50 return 0;51 }