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ANARC05B - The Double HeLiX |
Two finite, strictly increasing, integer sequences are given. Any common integer between the two sequences constitute an intersection point. Take for example the following two sequences where intersection points are
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- First= 3 5 7 9 20 25 30 40 55 56 57 60 62
- Second= 1 4 7 11 14 25 44 47 55 57 100
You can ‘walk” over these two sequences in the following way:
- You may start at the beginning of any of the two sequences. Now start moving forward.
- At each intersection point, you have the choice of either continuing with the same sequence you’re currently on, or switching to the other sequence.
The objective is finding a path that produces the maximum sum of data you walked over. In the above example, the largest possible sum is 450, which is the result of adding 3, 5, 7, 9, 20, 25, 44, 47, 55, 56, 57, 60, and 62
Input
Your program will be tested on a number of test cases. Each test case will be specified on two separate lines. Each line denotes a sequence and is specified using the following format:
n v1 v2 ... vn
Where n is the length of the sequence and vi is the ith element in that sequence. Each sequence will have at least one element but no more than 10,000. All elements are between -10,000 and 10,000 (inclusive).
The last line of the input includes a single zero, which is not part of the test cases.
Output
For each test case, write on a separate line, the largest possible sum that can be produced.
Sample
Input: 13 3 5 7 9 20 25 30 40 55 56 57 60 62 11 1 4 7 11 14 25 44 47 55 57 100 4 -5 100 1000 1005 3 -12 1000 1001 0 Output: 450 2100
Added by: | psetter |
Date: | 2009-07-05 |
Time limit: | 1s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: ERL JS-RHINO NODEJS PERL6 VB.NET |
Resource: | ANARC 2005 |
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2021-08-28 09:58:44
For those who are new here like me, the instructions for taking input are not very clear. This is what we have to do Run an infinite while loop for in which each testcase is handled. As soon as a 0 is obtained as the size of the array (this is the last 0 which they have mentioned is not a part of input), break out of the while loop. there are no more testcases after this |
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2021-08-15 11:02:32
this |
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2021-08-15 08:04:03
input format should explained in better way |
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2021-08-01 11:15:30
Two Pointer *) |
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2021-07-10 07:04:17
AC in one go |
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2021-07-01 12:20:37
what is zero in the last and what we do of it |
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2021-06-30 10:27:05
Don't get confused by the tags. It's easy. I got AC in first attempt. |
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2021-06-29 12:25:22
simple two pointers |
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2021-06-23 13:49:23
the input format is should be explained in a better way. Got 5 wrong submissions, just becoz of that |
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2021-06-20 12:43:58
If using 2 pointer technique remember to take care of the remaining elements in both the lists. |