Description
Farmer John has been informed of the location of a fugitive cow and wants to catch her immediately. He starts at a point N (0 ≤ N ≤ 100,000) on a number line and the cow is at a point K (0 ≤ K ≤ 100,000) on the same number line. Farmer John has two modes of transportation: walking and teleporting.
* Walking: FJ can move from any point X to the points X - 1 or X + 1 in a single minute
* Teleporting: FJ can move from any point X to the point 2 × X in a single minute.
If the cow, unaware of its pursuit, does not move at all, how long does it take for Farmer John to retrieve it?
Input
Line 1: Two space-separated integers:
N and
K
Output
Line 1: The least amount of time, in minutes, it takes for Farmer John to catch the fugitive cow.
Sample Input
5 17
Sample Output
4
H
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<limits.h>
#include<queue>
#include<algorithm>
using namespace std;
int n,m,k;
int flag[100005];
struct node
{
int x,step;
}str,a;
int find(int x)
{
if(x<0 || x>100000 || flag[x])
return 0;
return 1;
}
int main()
{
int i,j;
queue<node>q;
while(scanf("%d%d",&n,&k)!=EOF)
{
memset(flag,0,sizeof(flag));
a.step=0;
a.x=n;
q.push(a);
flag[n]=1;
while(!q.empty())
{
a=q.front();
q.pop();
if(a.x==k)
{
printf("%d\n",a.step);
break;
}
str=a;
str.step=a.step+1;
str.x=a.x+1;
if(find(str.x))
{
str.step=a.step+1;
flag[str.x]=1;
q.push(str);
}
str.x=a.x-1;
if(find(str.x))
{
str.step=a.step+1;
flag[str.x]=1;
q.push(str);
}
str.x=a.x*2;
if(find(str.x))
{
str.step=a.step+1;
flag[str.x]=1;
q.push(str);
}
}
}
}