Editorial for CCC '15 S3 - Gates

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Author: FatalEagle

A simple greedy algorithm goes like this:

For each plane, assign it to the gate with the largest number that isn't occupied.

It's not hard to see why this is correct — indeed, intuitively, we're using the "worst" gate we can for each plane (since a gate with a lower number can serve at least every plane a gate with a higher number can).

Implementing this naïvely will result in a complexity of \mathcal{O}(GP), which is enough for the weak data used on the actual CCC. To speed this up, we can use a balanced binary search tree to store free gates. In C++, this is the set data structure, with a final time complexity of \mathcal{O}(P \log G).

Comments


  • 0
    Frrrank  commented on Jan. 30, 2024, 3:33 p.m.

    Is there anyone passed this question by using python3 set? I failed and there is a lot TLE.


    • 0
      htoshiro  commented on Jan. 30, 2024, 6:52 p.m.

      try pypy


  • 5
    cz52013141834  commented on July 13, 2022, 7:37 p.m.

    Why do we need to use set?


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    bigboy2  commented on Dec. 10, 2020, 10:48 p.m. ← edited

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      a_sad_javamain  commented on Dec. 10, 2020, 11:48 p.m. ← edited

      O(P(2logG)) = O(PlogG) since we disregard the constant factor