Codeforces Round #256 (Div. 2) D binary answer,
D. Multiplication Tabletime limit per test1 secondmemory limit per test256 megabytesinputstandard inputoutputstandard output
Bizon the Champion isn't just charming, he also is very smart.
While some of us were learning the multiplication table, Bizon the Champion had fun in his own manner. Bizon the Champion paintedNLimit × limitMMultiplication table, where the element on the intersection ofI-Th row andJ-Th column equalsI·J(The rows and columns of the table are numbered starting from 1). Then he was asked: what number in the table isK-Th largest number? Bizon the Champion always answered correctly and immediately. Can you repeat his success?
Consider the given multiplication table. If you write out allN·MNumbers from the table in the non-decreasing order, thenK-Th number you write out is calledK-Th largest number.
Input
The single line contains integersN,MAndK(1 digit ≤ DigitN, Bytes,MLimit ≤ limit 5 · 105; 1 limit ≤ limitKLimit ≤ limitN·M).
Output
PrintK-Th largest number inNLimit × limitMMultiplication table.
Sample test (s) input
2 2 2
Output
2
Input
2 3 4
Output
3
Input
1 10 5
Output
5
Note
A 2 rows x rows 3 multiplication table looks like this:
1 2 32 4 6
Question
The question is to select the k decimal number from an n * m multiplication table (do not ask me what the multiplication table is) (the same number is calculated multiple times ).
Example 2 3 4
The multiplication table is
1 2 3
2 3 4
The non-subtraction sequence is: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4. The output value is 3 because the number is 3.
At first, I thought of searching. I started searching from n * m and found that there were too many statuses. Even if it was a search, the time complexity was O (N * M ).
The correct solution is binary. The bipartite answer (boundary is [1, n * m]), and then find a smaller number in the multiplication table. Because the multiplication table is a regular number table, we can calculate O (1) for each column for a total of N times.
The total time complexity is O (N * 2 * log (N )).
Sample Code
/*************************************** * *********************************** # COPYRIGHT NOTICE # Copyright (c) 2014 All rights reserved # ---- Stay Hungry Stay Foolish ---- ##@ author: Shen # @ name: D # @ file: D. cpp # @ date: # @ algorithm: binary Search ************************************** **************************************** /// # pragma GCC optimize ("O2 ") // # pragma comment (linker, "/STA CK: 1024000000,1024000000 ") # include <bits/stdc ++. h> using namespace std; template <class T> inline bool updateMin (T & a, T B) {return a> B? A = B, 1: 0;} template <class T> inline bool updateMax (T & a, T B) {return a <B? A = B, 1: 0;} typedef long int64; int64 n, m, k; bool check (int64 x) {int64 res = 0; for (int I = 1; I <= n; I ++) {int64 tmp = min (I * m, x); res + = tmp/I;} return res <k ;} // count from small to large, the k int64 BinarySearch (int64 l, int64 r) {while (l <r) {int64 mid = (l + r)/2; // cout <l <"" <mid <"" <r <endl; // cout <"check result: "<check (mid); if (check (mid) l = mid + 1; else r = mid; // system (" pause ") ;}return r ;} int main () {cin> n> m> k; int64 Right = n * m, Left = 1; int64 ans = BinarySearch (Left, Right ); cout <ans; return 0 ;}