Woburn Challenge 1996
Given is an by
grid and on each square of the grid there may or may
not be an apple on it. Let
be the bottom left square and
be the
upper right square of the grid. Find the path from
to
(shown below)
going up and right only that passes through the most number of squares
with apples in them. For this path output the number of apples on it.
For example, here is a 4 by 4 grid:
.a.a <-B
..aa
a.a.
A-> ....
Each square can have at most one apple (this includes squares and
).
Input Specification
Your program should read in the size of the grid, and
, where
.
The locations of the apples where
is at
and
is at
.
Inputs will end with
0 0
and have the same format as the one below.
In our example, the input would be
4 4
2 1
2 3
3 3
3 4
4 2
4 4
0 0
Output Specification
Give the number of apples on the path with the most number of them. In this case
5
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