Consider two descending sequences of integers and
with
and
and for all
,
. The distance between two elements
and
is given by
The distance between sequence and sequence
is defined by
You may assume .
For example, for the sequences and
below, their maximum distance is reached for
and
, so
.
i=2
|
v
X 8 8 4 4 4 3 3 3 1
Y 9 9 8 8 6 5 5 4 3
^
|
j=7
Input Specification
The first sequence is the sequence and the second is the
sequence. You may assume that the sequences are descending and of equal length. A pair of sequences is preceded by a number on a single line indicating the number of elements in the sequences. Numbers in a sequence are separated by a space, and each sequence is on a single line by itself. As usual, the first number in the input gives the number of test cases.
Sample Input
2
9
8 8 4 4 4 3 3 3 1
9 9 8 8 6 5 5 4 3
7
6 5 4 4 4 4 4
3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Sample Output
The maximum distance is 5
The maximum distance is 0
Comments
For anyone who doesn't understand this problem, you have to basically find the maximum distance between two values in the arrays given
n
times.On line 1, there is a single integer
n
.l
.l
integers.Repeat steps 1 & 2
n
times.Hope this helps you understand the problem a bit better.
Can someone help me understand this a bit better?
why is this brute force question worthing 10 points?
I think it was that teachers actually marked the CCC before, so they had to manually input everything instead of having generated test cases. RIP teachers. They probably wanted to make it look scary.
I binary searched by successive submissions and it seems like
[Computers were probably too slow in 1996 but...]
Yeah... the test cases seem a bit weak. The same problem on PEG has
but I don't think a brute force approach passes due to the addition of more cases.