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 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 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…
