FatMouse and Cheese Problem Description FatMouse has stored some cheese in a city. The city can be considered as a square grid of dimension n: each grid location is labelled (p,q) where 0 <= p < n and 0 <= q < n. At each grid location Fatmouse…

A Knight’s Journey Time Limit: 1000MS Memory Limit: 65536K Total Submissions: 34085 Accepted: 11621 Description Background The knight is getting bored of seeing the same black and white squares again and again and has decided to make a journey around…

Prime Ring Problem Time Limit: 4000/2000 MS (Java/Others)    Memory Limit: 65536/32768 K (Java/Others) Total Submission(s): 40339    Accepted Submission(s): 17813 Problem Description A ring is compose of n circles as shown in diagram. Put natural num…

Sudoku Killer Problem Description 自从2006年3月10日至11日的首届数独世界锦标赛以后,数独这项游戏越来越受到人们的喜爱和重视. 据说,在2008北京奥运会上,会将数独列为一个单独的项目进行比赛,冠军将有可能获得的一份巨大的奖品---HDU免费七日游外加lcy亲笔签名以及同hdu acm team合影留念的机会. 所以全球人民前仆后继,为了奖品日夜训练茶饭不思.当然也包括初学者linle,不过他太笨了又没有多少耐性,只能做做最最基本的数独题,不过他还是想得到…

Sum It Up Problem Description Given a specified total t and a list of n integers, find all distinct sums using numbers from the list that add up to t. For example, if t=4, n=6, and the list is [4,3,2,2,1,1], then there are four different sums that eq…

for the backtracking part, thanks to the video of stanford cs106b lecture 10 by Julie Zelenski for the nice explanation of recursion and backtracking, highly recommended. in hdu 2553 cout N-Queens solutions problem, dfs is used. // please ignore, bel…

FatMouse' Trade Time Limit: 2000/1000 MS (Java/Others)    Memory Limit: 65536/32768 K (Java/Others) Total Submission(s): 42953    Accepted Submission(s): 14336 Problem Description FatMouse prepared M pounds of cat food, ready to trade with the cats g…

the algorithm of three version below is essentially the same, namely, Kadane's algorithm, which is of O(n) complexity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_subarray_problem the evolution of the implementations is to remove redundancy and do what is…

A Knight's Journey Time Limit: 1000MS Memory Limit: 65536K Total Submissions: 35564 Accepted: 12119 Description Background The knight is getting bored of seeing the same black and white squares again and again and has decided to make a journey around…

Largest Rectangle in a Histogram Time Limit: 2000/1000 MS (Java/Others)    Memory Limit: 65536/32768 K (Java/Others)Total Submission(s): 13997    Accepted Submission(s): 3982 Problem Description A histogram is a polygon composed of a sequence of rect…