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DescriptionBeing well known for its highly innovative products, Merck would definitely be a good target for industrial espionage. To protect its brand-new research and development facility the company has installed the latest system of surveillance robot

DescriptionThe Global Aerial Research Centre has been allotted the task of building the fifth generation of mobile phone nets in Sweden. The most striking reason why they got the job, is their discovery of a new, highly noise resistant, antenna. It is ca

DescriptionBessie wants to navigate her spaceship through a dangerous asteroid field in the shape of an N x N grid (1 <= N <= 500). The grid contains K asteroids (1 <= K <= 10,000), which are conveniently located at the lattice points of the

DescriptionWindy hasNballs of distinct weights from 1 unit toNunits. Now he tries to label them with 1 toNin such a way that:No two balls share the same label. The labeling satisfies several constrains like "The ball labeled withais lighter th...

DescriptionAn ascending sorted sequence of distinct values is one in which some form of a less-than operator is used to order the elements from smallest to largest. For example, the sorted sequence A, B, C, D implies that A < B, B < C and C < D.

DescriptionThe Borg is an immensely powerful race of enhanced humanoids from the delta quadrant of the galaxy. The Borg collective is the term used to describe the group consciousness of the Borg civilization. Each Borg individual is linked to the collec

DescriptionFarmer John has been elected mayor of his town! One of his campaign promises was to bring internet connectivity to all farms in the area. He needs your help, of course.Farmer John ordered a high speed connection for his farm and is going to s

DescriptionThe island nation of Flatopia is perfectly flat. Unfortunately, Flatopia has no public highways. So the traffic is difficult in Flatopia. The Flatopian government is aware of this problem. They're planning to build some highways so that it wil

DescriptionAdvanced Cargo Movement, Ltd. uses trucks of different types. Some trucks are used for vegetable delivery, other for furniture, or for bricks. The company has its own code describing each type of a truck. The code is simply a string of exactly

DescriptionArbitrage is the use of discrepancies in currency exchange rates to transform one unit of a currency into more than one unit of the same currency. For example, suppose that 1 US Dollar buys 0.5 British pound, 1 British pound buys 10.0 French .

DescriptionStockbrokers are known to overreact to rumours. You have been contracted to develop a method of spreading disinformation amongst the stockbrokers to give your employer the tactical edge in the stock market. For maximum effect, you have to spre

DescriptionFreddy Frog is sitting on a stone in the middle of a lake. Suddenly he notices Fiona Frog who is sitting on another stone. He plans to visit her, but since the water is dirty and full of tourists' sunscreen, he wants to avoid swimming and inst

Description年轻的探险家来到了一个印第安部落里。在那里他和酋长的女儿相爱了，于是便向酋长去求亲。酋长要他用10000个金币作为聘礼才答应把女儿嫁给他。探险家拿不出这么多金币，便请求酋长降低要求。酋长说："嗯，如果你能够替我弄到大祭司的皮袄，我可以只要8000金币。如果你能够弄来他的水晶球，那么只要5000金币就行了。"探险家就跑到大祭司那里，向他要求皮袄或水晶球，大祭司要他用金币来换，或者替他弄来其他的东西，他可以降低价格。探险家于是又跑到其他地方，其他人也提出了类似的要求，或者直接用金币换，

DescriptionWhile exploring his many farms, Farmer John has discovered a number of amazing wormholes. A wormhole is very peculiar because it is a one-way path that delivers you to its destination at a time that is BEFORE you entered the wormhole! Each of

DescriptionSeveral currency exchange points are working in our city. Let us suppose that each point specializes in two particular currencies and performs exchange operations only with these currencies. There can be several points specializing in the same

DescriptionThe cornfield maze is a popular Halloween treat. Visitors are shown the entrance and must wander through the maze facing zombies, chainsaw-wielding psychopaths, hippies, and other terrors on their quest to find the exit.One popular maze-walk.

DescriptionFarmer John has been informed of the location of a fugitive cow and wants to catch her immediately. He starts at a pointN(0 ≤N≤ 100,000) on a number line and the cow is at a pointK(0 ≤K≤ 100,000) on the same number line. Farmer John h...

DescriptionDue to recent rains, water has pooled in various places in Farmer John's field, which is represented by a rectangle of N x M (1 <= N <= 100; 1 <= M <= 100) squares. Each square contains either water ('W') or dry land ('.'). Farmer

DescriptionThe ministers of the cabinet were quite upset by the message from the Chief of Security stating that they would all have to change the four-digit room numbers on their offices.— It is a matter of security to change such things every now and t

DescriptionBessie hears that an extraordinary meteor shower is coming; reports say that these meteors will crash into earth and destroy anything they hit. Anxious for her safety, she vows to find her way to a safe location (one that is never destroyed by

Description"The item is locked in a Klein safe behind a painting in the second-floor library. Klein safes are extremely rare; most of them, along with Klein and his factory, were destroyed in World War II. Fortunately old Brumbaugh from research knew Kle

Maximum sumTime Limit:1000MS Memory Limit:65536K Total Submissions:47392 Accepted:14601 DescriptionGiven a set of n integers: A={a1, a2,..., an}, we define a function d(A) as below：Your task is to calculate d(A).InputThe...

TilingDescriptionIn how many ways can you tile a 2xn rectangle by 2x1 or 2x2 tiles?Here is a sample tiling of a 2x17 rectangle.InputInput is a sequence of lines, each line containing an ...

Ubiquitous ReligionsDescriptionThere are so many different religions in the world today that it is difficult to keep track of them all. You are interested in finding out how many different religio...

POJ 2586 Y2K Accounting BugDescriptionAccounting for Computer Machinists (ACM) has sufferred from the Y2K bug and lost some vital data for preparing annual report for MS Inc.All what they rememb...

Flip GameDescriptionFlip game is played on a rectangular 4x4 field with two-sided pieces placed on each of its 16 squares. One side of each piece is white and the other one is black and each piece...