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MINSEQ - Minimal Possible String |
Given two strings A and B, your are to find the lexicographically smallest string after inserting B into A.
For example, string A is "369", and string B is "4799". There are 4 ways that I can insert B into A, and I’ll get 4 different results: 4799369, 3479969, 3647999, 3694799. Thus, 3479969 is the lexicographically smallest one.
Input
Input contains several cases. Each case has 2 strings A and B with length no longer than 100000 in 2 lines. Process the input until EOF. The strings consist of only digit 1-9.
Output
For each case, output the minimal possible result.
Example
Input:
369
4799
666
12345
Output:
3479969
12345666
Added by: | 3xian |
Date: | 2009-10-30 |
Time limit: | 1s-1.567s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: ASM64 PERL6 |
Resource: | GDUT Monthly |
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2021-04-21 00:23:02 Scape
Wonderful problem. Also solvable with hashing. |
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2015-07-28 11:38:05 Abhishek pratap singh
I am using Suffix Array to rank the suffixes but no getting WA. I have tried these test cases 987 9876 8769 9876 657 6567 Last one was the most tricky one that I could think of :/ Can anyone help me? |
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2014-12-24 22:08:22 paras meena
are u kidding my O((|A|+|B|)*(log(|A|+|B|)^2)) gave TLE o.O and by DC3 i got WA what the hack :/ |
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2014-05-29 12:29:38 ABHISHEK
Can anybody give a hint as to how to approach this problem. |
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2012-09-21 05:05:49 Ravi Kiran
Really Nice Problem and Good test data! |
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2012-09-15 00:22:10 Buda IM (retired)
O( |A|log(|A|+|B|) ) is enough to get AC |
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2012-06-16 20:50:00 :D
For now I have TLE with O(len(A)+len(B)) so I doubt anything less with give AC. EDIT: My bad. Due to bad algo, complexity was much higher. Got 0.41 with actual O(len(A)+len(B)) (some I/O optimization included). Last edit: 2012-11-24 21:19:14 |
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2011-07-14 13:24:01 Varun Kumar V
is this problem solvable in AlogA + B ?? Or even better solution is required ??? |
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2014-01-27 21:10:51 Brainstorm
worse problem explanation ever. I did understand what is written, and I'm quite sure my code works, still, it tells me the 'wrong answer' error. Are we supposed to guess hidden rules? ------- 3xian: Sometimes python would crash on SPOJ when using large memory. But your submissions which got 'wrong answer' are really wrong, please check them carefully. Last edit: 2012-06-03 09:47:15 |
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2011-06-26 16:54:23 3xian
@Xilinx It is caused by ASCII 13 and 10, but not redundant empty lines. Anyway, “scanf()” is recommended. Last edit: 2010-02-12 08:58:59 |