TWENDS - Two Ends
In the two-player game “Two Ends”, an even number of cards is laid out in a row. On each card, face up, is written a positive integer. Players take turns removing a card from either end of the row and placing the card in their pile. The player whose cards add up to the highest number wins the game. Now one strategy is to simply pick the card at the end that is the largest — we’ll call this the greedy strategy. However, this is not always optimal, as the following example shows: (The first player would win if she would first pick the 3 instead of the 4.)
3 2 10 4
You are to determine exactly how bad the greedy strategy is for different games when the second player uses it but the first player is free to use any strategy she wishes.
Input
There will be multiple test cases. Each test case will be contained on one line. Each line will start with an even integer n followed by n positive integers. A value of n = 0 indicates end of input. You may assume that n is no more than 1000. Furthermore, you may assume that the sum of the numbers in the list does not exceed 1,000,000.
Output
For each test case you should print one line of output of the form:
In game m, the greedy strategy might lose by as many as p points.
where m is the number of the game (starting at game 1) and p is the maximum possible difference between the first player’s score and second player’s score when the second player uses the greedy strategy. When employing the greedy strategy, always take the larger end. If there is a tie, remove the left end.
Example
Input: 4 3 2 10 4 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 2 2 1 5 3 8 7 3 0 Output: In game 1, the greedy strategy might lose by as many as 7 points. In game 2, the greedy strategy might lose by as many as 4 points. In game 3, the greedy strategy might lose by as many as 5 points.
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#include<bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; typedef long long int lli; typedef long int li; #define test() int test_case;cin>>test_case;while(test_case--) #define fr(i,n) for(int i=0;i<n;i++) #define frr(i,a,n) for(int i=a;i<n;i++) #define sll(a) scanf("%lld",&a) #define sl(a) scanf("%ld",&a) #define si(a) scanf("%i",&a) #define sd(a) scanf("%ld",&a) #define sf(a) scanf("%f",&a) #define rn(a) return a #define pai pair<int,int> #define pal pair<li,li> #define pall pair<lli,lli> #define ff first #define ss second #define mod 1000000007 #define mp make_pair #define pb push_back #define pll(a) printf("%lld\n",a); #define pl(a) printf("%lld\n",a); #define pi(a) printf("%d\n",a); #define pd(a) printf("%lf\n",a); #define pf(a) printf("%f\n",a); lli dp[3000][3000]; int solve(lli arr[],int start,int end) { if(start>end)return 0; if(dp[start][end]!=-1) { return dp[start][end]; } else if(start==end) { return dp[start][start]; } else if(start+1==end) { return max(arr[start],arr[start+1]); } else { // if i chose start lli val1=arr[start]; if(arr[end]>arr[start+1]) val1+=solve(arr,start+1,end-1); else val1+=solve(arr,start+2,end); // if i chose end lli val2=arr[end]; if(arr[end-1]>arr[start]) val2+=solve(arr,start,end-2); else val2+=solve(arr,start+1,end-1); dp[start][end]=max(val1,val2); } return dp[start][end]; } int main() { int n; lli arr[10000]; int t=1; while(1) { cin>>n; lli tot_sum=0; if(n==0) return 0; else { for(int i=0;i<n;i++) { cin>>arr[i]; tot_sum+=arr[i]; } } for(int i=0;i<n;i++) { for(int j=0;j<n;j++) dp[i][j]=-1; } for(int i=0;i<n;i++) dp[i][i]=arr[i]; solve(arr,0,n-1); // cout<<dp[0][n-1]<<endl; cout<<"In game "<<t++<<", the greedy strategy might lose by as many as "<<dp[0][n-1]-(tot_sum-dp[0][n-1])<<" points."<<endl; } }
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