题目描述 There is a pile of n wooden sticks. The length and weight of each stick are known in advance. The sticks are to be processed by a woodworking machine in one by one fashion. It needs some time, called setup time, for the machine to prepare proces…
题目描述 FJ is surveying his herd to find the most average cow. He wants to know how much milk this 'median' cow gives: half of the cows give as much or more than the median; half give as much or less. Given an odd number of cows N (1 <= N < 10,000) and…
题目描述 Problem Description The highest building in our city has only one elevator. A request list is made up with N positive numbers. The numbers denote at which floors the elevator will stop, in specified order. It costs 6 seconds to move the elevator…
题目描述 Before bridges were common, ferries were used to transport cars across rivers. River ferries, unlike their larger cousins, run on a guide line and are powered by the river's current. Cars drive onto the ferry from one end, the ferry crosses the…
题目描述 The famous ACM (Advanced Computer Maker) Company has rented a floor of a building whose shape is in the following figure. The floor has 200 rooms each on the north side and south side along the corridor. Recently the Company made a plan to refor…
题目描述 Here is a famous story in Chinese history. "That was about 2300 years ago. General Tian Ji was a high official in the country Qi. He likes to play horse racing with the king and others." "Both of Tian and the king have three horses in…
