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10788 - Parenthesizing Palindromes
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 10:24 pm
by w k
Hi,
The problem description says that the expression ``abbaddcc" has only one interpretation: ``(ab ba) (d d) (c c)". Is it true?
How about this interpretation:
(a(bb)a)(dd)(cc) ?
Wojciech
Re: 10788
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 1:04 am
by misof
w k wrote:Hi,
The problem description says that the expression ``abbaddcc" has only one interpretation: ``(ab ba) (d d) (c c)". Is it true?
How about this interpretation:
(a(bb)a)(dd)(cc) ?
Wojciech
In this problem, these two interpretations are considered to be the same. The problem statement is a little bit vague on what "interpretations" do we consider.
I offer my definition: for a string, an interpretation is a well-formed string of parenthesis of the same length, such that for each pair of parenthesis the corresponding two letters of the string are the same.
E.g. the string abbaddcc has only one interpretation:
Does this help you?
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:50 pm
by w k
Hi,
I believe Your definition is correct.
Is Your code AC?
If yes - they should change the problem description according to Your definition, I think.
Wojciech
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:57 am
by misof
Yes, my code is AC. But I think that my explanation gives away a little bit more than the author intended -- in other words, it pushes you in the right direction of thinking. And anyway, nobody has got the time to fix the problem statement. There are far worse problem statements out there that have to be fixed. And for minor details there is exactly this board.
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:48 pm
by kmhasan
Hmm... I admit that the statement is not that clear. Md Kamruzzaman, the author of the alternate solution for this problem, had pointed out this anomaly with the statement before it was used for the contest. But I was reluctant to make any change. Misof is right, if I were too specific then it would have given away much of the problem. It was not my intent.
I think I did mention these things in the form of an example in the problem statement. It worked fine for many. But that doesn't certify the problem statement to be clear. I am aware of that.
However, I am still against changing the problem statement. I hope the sufferers would take it lightly.
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:44 pm
by Krzysztof Duleba
Hi
I wonder if there are blank lines in the input? What is the expected output for those cases:
14
aaabba
aabb
bbababba
aabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabbaabb
abcdefgabcdefg
aabbccddeeffgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvww
accffbbaccxxpqqrrp
aa
a
aba
abba
dddddddddddddddddddd
ddddddddddddddddddddd
Is this right?
Case 1: Valid, Multiple
Case 2: Valid, Unique
Case 3: Invalid
Case 4: Valid, Unique
Case 5: Valid, Multiple
Case 6: Invalid
Case 7: Valid, Unique
Case 8: Valid, Unique
Case 9: Valid, Unique
Case 10: Invalid
Case 11: Invalid
Case 12: Valid, Multiple
Case 13: Valid, Multiple
Case 14: Invalid
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:14 am
by Cho
There is no empty string in the input because I use scanf("%s", s) and got AC.
And the output of your case 12(abba) should be "Valid, Unique".
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 3:58 pm
by Krzysztof Duleba
How could it be that abba has only one interpretation? Can't we write it as (ab ba) or (a (b b) a)?
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:30 pm
by misof
Krzysztof Duleba wrote:How could it be that abba has only one interpretation? Can't we write it as (ab ba) or (a (b b) a)?
Try reading the previous posts on this page.
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:49 pm
by Krzysztof Duleba
misof wrote:Try reading the previous posts on this page.
Yes, that should be helpful. Somehow I didn't notice your previous post - sorry.
Can any one give me any Critical test case ?
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 2:56 pm
by Niaz
Can any one give me any Critical test case ?
I am trying to solve this problem and getting WA again and again. I may miss some thing from the problem. Please give me some input and output so that I can fix my BUG
Thanks in advance.
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:18 am
by sq
Hi, are there any more test cases? I've tried the sample input and the test cases in this thread, but still can't get it accepted.
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:00 am
by shamim
Hi, try these important cases:
2
abckkkkkcba
abbkkbba
the answer:
Case 1: Valid, Multiple
Case 2: Valid, Multiple
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:23 am
by stubbscroll
Try this case, I used it to debug my program:
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:31 pm
by sq
shamim wrote:Hi, try these important cases:
2
abckkkkkcba
abbkkbba
the answer:
Case 1: Valid, Multiple
Case 2: Valid, Multiple
Hi~ Shouldn't abckkkkkcba be Invalid? (It has a singled k)