## Castle Invasion

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Points: 10 (partial)
Time limit: 1.0s
PyPy 2 2.5s
PyPy 3 2.5s
Memory limit: 64M
PyPy 2 256M
PyPy 3 256M

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Bob is planning an attack on a suspicious castle owned by the evil villain Joe! The castle can be thought of as an by grid of towers, with each tower having an integer height. To scout for this attack, Bob sent his only drone that can instantly transmit pictures to take photos of the castle. However, the drone only managed to take 2 photos before critically running out of battery and tumbling into the forest. One photo was taken of the front side of the castle, while the other captured its right side. It was also discovered (slightly too late) that the drone's camera cannot capture depth! Since Bob does not want to fail this attack, he would like to know the maximum possible volume of the castle, or if the photos are incorrect and a castle cannot be reconstructed. Can you help him find out?

#### Input Specification

The first line of the input will contain an integer , representing the dimensions of the castle.

The second line will contain integers , representing the height of the tallest tower in the column.

The third line will contain integers , representing the height of the tallest tower in the row.

#### Output Specification

A single integer, representing the maximum possible volume of the castle, or -1 if it is impossible to reconstruct a castle.

#### Sample Input 1

4
1 3 4 2
2 2 1 4

#### Sample Output 1

28

#### Sample Input 2

4
1 2 6 2
5 3 3 3

#### Sample Output 2

-1

#### Explanation for Sample Output 2

No matter how you assign heights to each tower, it is impossible to reconstruct a castle that satisfies both photos.

• commented on Dec. 25, 2021, 9:23 p.m. edit 2

Any hints how to optimize? I thought it would be fast enough but it's TLEing for the second last case. Edit: thank you to 4fecta and joelfu for speeding up my input, I will use this for future problems instead of scanner if needed. :) Andrew template is so convenient.

• commented on Dec. 25, 2021, 9:37 p.m.

Your code looks more or less correct. Try using a faster input method such as BufferedReader, since Scanner becomes quite slow when reading in large amounts of data (around 2 million integers for this problem). More details about the syntax of BufferedReadercan be found here.

• commented on Dec. 25, 2021, 10:12 p.m.

Thanks 4fecta, much appreciated.

• commented on Oct. 12, 2020, 1:39 a.m.

can someone help me, I keep getting the second last case wrong.

• commented on Oct. 17, 2020, 8:00 p.m.

Your multiplication on line 50 is overflowing, as mentioned below.

• commented on Oct. 17, 2020, 5:41 p.m.

if you get out of memory error, then try different input tream. static StreamTokenizer in = new StreamTokenizer(new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)));

• commented on March 19, 2020, 4:41 p.m.

Can someone take a look at my code, I am wrong answering on the second last case.

• commented on March 19, 2020, 6:55 p.m.

Some of your variables declared as int are overflowing.

• commented on March 19, 2020, 7:12 p.m.

Thank you!

• commented on Oct. 19, 2019, 9:56 a.m.

I finally got this after 3 days! This is a good problem.

• commented on Oct. 19, 2019, 2:25 p.m.

• commented on Oct. 16, 2019, 3:22 p.m. edit 2

no, it is not necessary to create an n by n grid

• commented on Oct. 17, 2019, 5:34 p.m.

i'm still stuck on the second last case... hint pls?

• commented on Oct. 17, 2019, 11:31 p.m. edited

Your code has a time complexity of , which is too slow to pass the second subtask. Try thinking of how you can optimize your algorithm to a better complexity.

• commented on Oct. 16, 2019, 1:57 p.m. edited

Is an N by N grid required to solve this problem? I am getting a memory error at the second last test case.