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POCRI - Power Crisis |
During the power crisis in New Zealand this winter (caused by a shortage of rain and hence low levels in the hydro dams), a contingency scheme was developed to turn off the power to areas of the country in a systematic, totally fair, manner. The country was divided up into N regions (Auckland was region number 1, and Wellington number 13). A number, m, would be picked 'at random', and the power would first be turned off in region 1 (clearly the fairest starting point) and then in every m'th region after that, wrapping around to 1 after N, and ignoring regions already turned off. For example, if N = 17 and m = 5, power would be turned off to the regions in the order:1, 6, 11, 16, 5, 12, 2, 9, 17, 10, 4, 15, 14, 3, 8, 13, 7.
The problem is that it is clearly fairest to turn off Wellington last (after all, that is where the Electricity headquarters are), so for a given N, the 'random' number m needs to be carefully chosen so that region 13 is the last region selected.
Write a program that will read in the number of regions and then determine the smallest number m that will ensure that Wellington (region 13) can function while the rest of the country is blacked out.
Input
Input will consist of a series of lines, each line containing the number of regions (N) with 13 <= N < 100. The file will be terminated by a line consisting of a single 0.
Output
Output will consist of a series of lines, one for each line of the input. Each line will consist of the number m according to the above scheme.
Example
Input: 17 0 Output: 7
Added by: | Andres Tellez |
Date: | 2011-05-17 |
Time limit: | 3.381s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: ASM64 |
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2013-01-07 22:44:47 Miguel Angel Diaz
Hmm. I precomputed values from 13-100 and put them in an array; yet, I am getting WA. Why? |
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2012-03-28 11:30:39 Aradhya
awe$0me question!! |
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2012-03-11 03:51:32 nblt
What's the meaning of the problem? |
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2012-01-26 21:07:41 Garima Sachan
@Sachin Gupta ans is correct... read problem statement again.. |
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2012-01-26 13:24:31 Sachin Gupta
in the question explanation the ans for N=17 is 5 but in sample output it is 7 :D |
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2011-12-24 00:49:38 BOND
for those getting WA.. hint : take care of the limit of the loop :) Last edit: 2012-01-05 17:05:30 |
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2011-10-22 07:15:42 Al
I also got this to work on UVA, but not here. Is there still an issue? |
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2011-07-12 14:26:35 abcdef
getting TLE!!!! any method to solve.... pls help...... |
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2011-07-10 14:57:09 Problem Solver
don't read to EOF... read until 0 appear... this gave me AC |
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2011-07-04 15:24:21 Michael T
@Kashyap: Input |