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ELEVTRBL - Elevator Trouble |
You are on your way to your first job interview as a program tester, and you are already late. The interview is in a skyscraper and you are currently in floor s, where you see an elevator. Upon entering the elevator, you learn that it has only two buttons, marked "UP u" and "DOWN d". You conclude that the UP-button takes the elevator u floors up (if there aren't enough floors, pressing the UP-button does nothing, or at least so you assume), whereas the DOWN-button takes you d stories down (or none if there aren't enough). Knowing that the interview is at floor g, and that there are only f floors in the building, you quickly decide to write a program that gives you the amount of button pushes you need to perform. If you simply cannot reach the correct floor, your program halts with the message "use the stairs".
Given input f, s, g, u and d (floors, start, goal, up, down), find the shortest sequence of button presses you must press in order to get from s to g, given a building of floors, or output "use the stairs" if you cannot get from s to g by the given elevator.
Input
The input will consist of one line, namely f s g u d, where 1 <= s, g <= f <= 1000000 and 0 <= u, d <= 1000000. The floors are one-indexed, i.e. if there are 10 stories, s and g be in [1; 10].
Output
You must reply with the minimum numbers of pushes you must make in order to get from s to g, or output "use the stairs" if it is impossible given the conguration of the elevator.
Example
Input: 10 1 10 2 1 Output: 6
Input: 100 2 1 1 0 Output: use the stairs
Added by: | Krzysztof Lewko |
Date: | 2011-10-06 |
Time limit: | 1s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: ASM64 |
Resource: | Nordic programming contest |
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2016-11-14 10:27:12
why runtime error (SIGSEGV) if use C++4.3.2 ... AC if use C++ 5.1 or C++ 14 ??? |
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2016-10-05 04:37:40 hung
Note s == g |
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2016-09-23 17:24:11 prakash
some problems occur in size of array but finally solved it |
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2016-08-14 14:21:58
In BFS , you should set "visited" array size to a big value like bool visited[10000000] to handle corner cases. |
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2016-08-05 10:48:05 kunal todi
Can anyone let me know why after running 12 test cases successfully, the judge gives me wrong answer |
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2016-04-23 09:29:21 Sachin Bisht
I am trying to implement this problem in JAVA but getting TLE. Can anyone help me out. (FYI I am using ArrayDeque instead of LinkedList but still getting TLE) |
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2016-02-21 10:20:53
finally understood ! meaning of BFS. |
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2015-06-28 22:31:02 chin
Finally AC..:D |
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2014-11-29 06:04:35 Aditya Joshi
HINT: For people using Java, try and use an ArrayDeque instead of a LinkedList to implement your abstract Queue. Last edit: 2014-11-29 06:04:45 |
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2013-09-06 17:35:30 chk
awesome problem :) |