Codeforces Round #431 (Div. 1)
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For a given unordered multiset of n lowercase English letters ("multi" means that a letter may appear more than once), we treat all letters as strings of length 1, and repeat the following operation n - 1 times:
- Remove any two elements s and t from the set, and add their concatenation s + t to the set.
The cost of such operation is defined to be , where f(s, c) denotes the number of times character cappears in string s.
Given a non-negative integer k, construct any valid non-empty set of no more than 100 000 letters, such that the minimum accumulative cost of the whole process is exactly k. It can be shown that a solution always exists.
The first and only line of input contains a non-negative integer k (0 ≤ k ≤ 100 000) — the required minimum cost.
Output a non-empty string of no more than 100 000 lowercase English letters — any multiset satisfying the requirements, concatenated to be a string.
Note that the printed string doesn't need to be the final concatenated string. It only needs to represent an unordered multiset of letters.
12
abababab
3
codeforces
For the multiset {'a', 'b', 'a', 'b', 'a', 'b', 'a', 'b'}, one of the ways to complete the process is as follows:
- {"ab", "a", "b", "a", "b", "a", "b"}, with a cost of 0;
- {"aba", "b", "a", "b", "a", "b"}, with a cost of 1;
- {"abab", "a", "b", "a", "b"}, with a cost of 1;
- {"abab", "ab", "a", "b"}, with a cost of 0;
- {"abab", "aba", "b"}, with a cost of 1;
- {"abab", "abab"}, with a cost of 1;
- {"abababab"}, with a cost of 8.
The total cost is 12, and it can be proved to be the minimum cost of the process.
/* * @Author: LyuC * @Date: 2017-09-03 15:10:19 * @Last Modified by: LyuC * @Last Modified time: 2017-09-03 16:56:48 */ /* 题意:初始的时候一个集合内有n个元素(a-z的字符),你可以进行这样的操作,每次取出集合内的 两个元素删除,然后将这两个元素连起来作为一个元素放到集合内,此次操作的代价: f(s,c)*f(t,c),f(s,c)函数定义为,a-z每个字符在s中出现的次数的加和,现在给你一个 代价k,让你构造出满足要求的字符串 思路:n个相同的字符,构造的代价是n*(n-1)/2,然后这样就可以凑出k */ #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int n; string s; int pos; int i; inline void init(){ s=""; pos=0; } int main(){ // freopen("in.txt","r",stdin); init(); scanf("%d",&n); if(n==0){ puts("a"); return 0; } while(n>0){ i=0; while(++i){ if(i*(i-1)/2>n){ break; } } i--; n-=i*(i-1)/2; while(i--){ s+=pos%26+'a'; } pos++; } cout<<s<<endl; return 0; }