TRT - Treats for the Cows
FJ has purchased N (1 <= N <= 2000) yummy treats for the cows who get money for giving vast amounts of milk. FJ sells one treat per day and wants to maximize the money he receives over a given period time. The treats are interesting for many reasons:
- The treats are numbered 1..N and stored sequentially in single file in a long box that is open at both ends. On any day, FJ can retrieve one treat from either end of his stash of treats.
- Like fine wines and delicious cheeses, the treats improve with age and command greater prices.
- The treats are not uniform: some are better and have higher intrinsic value. Treat i has value v(i) (1 <= v(i) <= 1000).
- Cows pay more for treats that have aged longer: a cow will pay v(i)*a for a treat of age a.
Given the values v(i) of each of the treats lined up in order of the index i in their box, what is the greatest value FJ can receive for them if he orders their sale optimally?
The first treat is sold on day 1 and has age a=1. Each subsequent day increases the age by 1.
Input
Line 1: A single integer, N
Lines 2..N+1: Line i+1 contains the value of treat v(i)
Output
The maximum revenue FJ can achieve by selling the treats
Example
Input: 5 1 3 1 5 2 Output: 43
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Jumpy:
2015-01-20 18:40:48
It took so long to solve this problem. First I did Greedy - Failed. Then Recursive - TLE. After that DP - GOT AC with 0.00 sec and 18MB memory. |
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Sampath Ravolaparthi:
2015-01-16 16:25:38
OMG! I'm too Greedy!!!
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Asheesh Pathak:
2015-01-15 19:41:06
@Sampath Kumar Please tell me how you got AC. I'm having the same problem. |
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Lokesh:
2015-01-11 16:49:54
Top Down approach caused tle
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KAI:
2015-01-01 16:32:32
easy DP, silly mistake costed wa's :) |
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ALISHA:
2014-12-19 19:13:05
its worth only with bottom up.
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eightnoteight:
2014-12-18 13:47:03
O(n) space and O(n*n) time complexity solution in python is giving tle,,
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agaurav77:
2014-12-14 12:04:19
If you are getting RE (SIGSEGV), try replacing int arr[N][N] and items[N] with arr[2001][2001] and items[2001]. AC finally! |
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Dhruv Mullick:
2014-12-06 19:21:48
Going Top Down destroys the fun. Try using Bottom up approach :) Last edit: 2014-12-06 19:22:02 |
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Vaibhav Gosain:
2014-12-03 15:23:27
do TWENDS if u are having a problem with this one :) |
Added by: | Nguyen Van Quang Huy |
Date: | 2006-02-15 |
Time limit: | 1s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: NODEJS PERL6 VB.NET |
Resource: | USACO FEB06 Gold Division |