NAKANJ - Minimum Knight moves !!!
Anjali and Nakul are good friends. They both had a quarrel recently while playing chess. Nakul wants to know the minimum number of moves a knight takes to reach from one square to another square of a chess board (8 × 8). Nakul is brilliant and he had already written a program to solve the problem. Nakul wants to know whether Anjali can do it. Anjali is very weak in programming. Help her to solve the problem.
A knight can move in the shape of an "L" in a chessboard - two squares either forward, backward, left, or right and then one square to its left or right. A knight move is valid if it moves as mentioned above and it is within the boundary of the chessboard (8 × 8).
Input
There are T test cases in total. The next T lines contain two strings (start and destination) separated by a space.
The strings start and destination will only contain two characters - First character is an alphabet between 'a' and 'h' (inclusive), Second character is a digit between '1' and '8' (inclusive) - (Quotes just for clarity).
To know the knight moves more clearly refer to the above figure.
Output
Print the minimum number of moves a knight takes to reach from start to destination in a separate line.
Constraints
1 <= T <= 4096
Example
Input: 3 a1 h8 a1 c2 h8 c3 Output: 6 1 4
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sahil:
2012-10-27 15:18:59
what should be the o/p for a1 a1
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gourav:
2012-10-21 14:54:37
how you all guys are doing it in 0.00 sec ? :-o great bros! ;) |
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virtuazx:
2012-10-10 19:40:10
heh heh nakki....FinallY ..
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(Tjandra Satria Gunawan)(曾毅昆):
2012-09-30 15:28:52
Hmm, my fastest algo that got AC 0.00s in C, got 0.82s in python :-O |
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Aditya Pande:
2012-09-30 14:14:53
@Tjandra Satria Gunawan :
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(Tjandra Satria Gunawan)(曾毅昆):
2012-09-30 14:06:54
@Aditya Pande: If your algo complexity is arround O(8^4) then your algo is faster than my algo: O(17616).
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Aditya Pande:
2012-09-30 13:26:04
my algorithm complexity approx O(8^4) Last edit: 2012-10-02 17:32:24 |
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Zhouxing Shi:
2012-09-30 12:18:44
It seems to be very easy~~
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(Tjandra Satria Gunawan)(曾毅昆):
2012-09-30 11:06:28
this problem is easy, but not easy to get AC in 0.00s, my first algo that got AC in 0.01s do 57174 operations, and my second algo that got AC in 0.00s just do 17616 operations ;) |
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:D:
2012-09-30 10:20:44
Thanks "Freak Admins", problem seems to be ok all around. |
Added by: | Nakul Krishna |
Date: | 2012-09-30 |
Time limit: | 1s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: ASM64 |
Resource: | Used for Code it - Vidyut 2012 - Amrita University |