Code Forces 645B Mischievous Mess Makers
It is a balmy spring afternoon, and Farmer John’s n cows are ruminating about link-cut cacti in their stalls. The cows, labeled 1 through n, are arranged so that the i-th cow occupies the i-th stall from the left. However, Elsie, after realizing that she will forever live in the shadows beyond Bessie’s limelight, has formed the Mischievous Mess Makers and is plotting to disrupt this beautiful pastoral rhythm. While Farmer John takes his k minute long nap, Elsie and the Mess Makers plan to repeatedly choose two distinct stalls and swap the cows occupying those stalls, making no more than one swap each minute.
Being the meticulous pranksters that they are, the Mischievous Mess Makers would like to know the maximum messiness attainable in the k minutes that they have. We denote as pi the label of the cow in the i-th stall. The messiness of an arrangement of cows is defined as the number of pairs (i, j) such that i < j and pi > pj.
Input
The first line of the input contains two integers n and k (1 ≤ n, k ≤ 100 000) — the number of cows and the length`of Farmer John’s nap, respectively.
Output
Output a single integer, the maximum messiness that the Mischievous Mess Makers can achieve by performing no more than k swaps.
Sample Input
Input
5 2
Output
10
Input
1 10
Output
0
#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <algorithm>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <queue>
#include <map>
using namespace std;
long long int n,k;
long long int ans;
int main()
{
scanf("%lld%lld",&n,&k);
long long int sum=(n*(n-1))/2;
int l=n;
ans=0;
if(n==1)
{
printf("0\n");
return 0;
}
for(int i=1;i<=k;i++)
{
ans+=(l-1+l-2);
l-=2;
if(ans==sum)
break;
}
printf("%lld\n",ans);
return 0;
}