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TRINO - PUT TRINOMO |
Given a m × n chess board, determine the minimum number of places to be covered to make it impossible to put a L shaped trinomo on it.
e.g. In 2 × 2 chess board if you cover any 2 cells, it will be impossible to put a L shaped trinomo on it.
1 <= n, m <= 10^8
A trinomo is a L shaped object.
* * *
where * represents a cell.
Input
T: number of test cases (T <= 5000)
Next T lines:
every line contain m, n
Output
Minimum number of cells to be covered.
Example
Input: 1 2 2 Output: 2
Added by: | praveen123 |
Date: | 2012-08-02 |
Time limit: | 1s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: ASM64 |
Resource: | general problem |
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2020-04-14 21:58:42
I can't believe I needed almost an hour to get this right. Annoying little problem. |
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2012-08-05 13:34:26 Snehasish Roy ;)
Totally agree with @aradhya71 Move it to tutorial :D :D :D :D :D :D |
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2012-08-05 10:22:50 BLANKRK
nice one!!! |
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2012-08-04 19:31:12 npsabari
Got it in 10 seconds!! |
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2012-08-04 16:11:30 Aradhya
defntly tutorial.. @devil: there's nthg tricky here. u need jus 1 thing "brain" ;) |
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2012-08-03 10:06:39 :)
very good and tricky question Last edit: 2012-08-04 10:01:29 |
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2012-08-03 06:36:37 Vaishali Behl
please provide some more test cases. |