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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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2012-08-03 06:28:13 Vaishali Behl
in case of 3 * 3 should it not be 4? it should be 3. Last edit: 2012-08-03 06:29:41 |
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2012-08-03 05:05:06 Pranay
in case of 3*3 is it 3 or 5? |
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2012-08-02 18:48:57 NeW AcP
got acc. very nice problem . Last edit: 2012-08-02 18:54:54 |
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2012-08-02 18:48:57 (Tjandra Satria Gunawan)(曾毅昆)
@Namandeep Singh Chugh: Yes, that's right. |
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2012-08-02 18:48:57 Naman
L shaped "trinomo" is any random L shape right?? |