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11843 - Guessing Game
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 1:05 pm
by suneast
Hi, everyone
It seams quite a simple problem, but I always got WA....
I use dp to solve it? but failed...
My dp format is like
My answer is DP?n?m-1??
anything wrong or there is some tricky input?
any help will do...
Thx in advance..
Re: 11843 - Guessing Game
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 1:16 pm
by suneast
Oh, I think I mistake the problem...
I will try to fix it myself...
Happy solving...
Re: 11843 - Guessing Game
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 1:29 pm
by suneast
Finally got AC...
I just make a little change of my code ...
It's a silly mistake...
Code: Select all
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* a strike, if Bob's number is greater than X
* a smile, if Bob's number is less than X
* a stop, if Bob's number is precisely X
*
Re: 11843 - Guessing Game
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 4:11 pm
by Nursoltan_h
How to solve using dp? I'm stuck at it.
Re: 11843 - Guessing Game
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:44 am
by Khongor_SMCS
Nursoltan_h wrote:How to solve using dp? I'm stuck at it.
dp(i,j) = min guess (i numbers with at most j strikes). Answer is obviously dp(n,m-1).
if our first guess is k then numbers divided to 0..k-1 and k+1..n-1. Numbers in 0 to k-1 need one strike but k+1..n doesn't need.
so dp(i,j) = min ( max( dp(k,j-1) , dp(n-k-1,j) + 1 ) {k=0..i-1}.
You have to consider base cases.
Re: 11843 - Guessing Game
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:28 pm
by Nursoltan_h
Got it. Thanks hongor ahaa.
Re: 11843 - Guessing Game
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:47 pm
by pdwd
It's enough to check k to i/2+1, because dp[k, j-1] >= dp[k, j] and dp[k1, j-1] > dp[k2, j] if k1 > k2. By checking k > i/2+1, you will always get from max dp[k-1, j-1].
I still believe there is a way to ask only 2 or 3 questions and get O(n*s) solution. Does anyone have such idea?
Re: 11843 - Guessing Game
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:47 am
by Jehad Uddin
you can precalculate on ans
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for(i=1;i<21;i++)
{
ar[i][1]=1;
ar[1][i]=i;
}
for(i=2;i<21;i++)
{
for(j=2;j<=55;j++)
{
ar[i][j]=1+ar[i-1][j-1]+ar[i][j-1];
}
}
then just chek ar[s][k]>=N then output k
Re: 11843 - Guessing Game
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:49 pm
by yatsen
Can someone put more test input and output?
Guessing Game - 11843
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 6:04 pm
by dolle39
I am not sure I understand the rules correctly for this problem. The problem talks about strikes. For example for the case N = 7 and S = 2. We first have the numbers;
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
We then of course first guess 3 since this halves the guessing space. In the next step we have S = 1 so then we will not be told if we guessed higher or lower. Thus we guess 2. What happens after this? Do I get new guesses? In the next step I would then perhaps guess 1 and then if necessary we guess 0. Thus to cover all possible numbers we need 4 guesses which agrees with the example output.
What would the result be for N = 15 and S = 2?
Re: Guessing Game - 11843
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:48 pm
by brianfry713
Read the problem statement again, a guess results in either a smile, a stop, or a strike.
Also read:
http://online-judge.uva.es/board/viewtopic.php?t=50731