HKOI 2012 (Junior) Q4 - Penicillin Gary Wong For any question, please ask via MSN:

For your interest (if any) The history in the problem is really true! Penicillin refers to a group of antibiotics Examples: Penicillin G Amoxicillin Ampicillin … Bacteria and viruses are 2 different things

Problem Statement Each of N points (x i, y i ) can “grow” into an “unclean” square with side 2t at time t, with (x i, y i ) as the “centre” A special point P(h, k) can “grow” into a square with side 2ts at time t “Growth” is bounded by a rectangle with dimension P x Q Area covered by square centred at P will be always clean

Problem Statement Find the area of unclean area N.B.: Overlapped area should be counted repeatedly Constraints: 50% N <= 50 P, Q, s, t <= % 1 <= N <= 10,000 1 <= P, Q, s, t <= 100,000 0 <= x i, h <= P 0 <= y i, k <= Q

Statistics Max. score: 100 No. of max: 2 Std dev: Mean: 5.29 Disappointed…

Statistics Disappointed…

Solution – 50% N <= 50 P, Q, s, t <= 100 How about declaring a 2D array to mimic the agar plate? Simulate the growth step by step! Count how many times each cell was covered, clear all sterile part Complexity? Very roughly, O(NPQt) In fact much less than this

Solution – 100% 1 <= N <= 10,000 1 <= P, Q, s, t <= 100,000 O(NPQt) cannot work anymore… Note that Each point is independent from each other, because overlapped areas are counted repeatedly If you know how to do for one point, same for other (N-1) points

Solution – 100% The problem reduces to: Given 2 “growing” squares, find the brown area without covered by green square

Solution – 100% Consider the brown square Top-left corner: (x i – t, y i – t) Bottom-right corner: (x i + t, y i + t)

Solution – 100% But what if it reaches/exceeds boundaries? Actual top-left corner (max(0, x i – t), max(0, y i – t)) Actual bottom-right corner (min(P, x i + t), min(Q, y i + t))

Solution – 100% Similarly, for green square, Top-left corner (max(0, h – st), max(0, k – st)) Bottom-right corner (min(P, h + st), min(Q, k + st))

Solution – 100% Next task: how to find intersection area between the 2 squares?

Solution – 100% Consider the corners of the intersection area! (a1, b1) (c1, d1) (a2, b2) (c2, d2)

Solution – 100% For the intersection area, Top-left corner (max(a1,a2), max(b1,b2)) Bottom-right corner (min(c1,c2), min(d1,d2)) (a1, b1) (c1, d1) (a2, b2) (c2, d2)

Solution – 100% How to detect the case of “no intersection”?

Solution – 100% Area of brown square minus area of intersection Do this for N times Complexity? O(N)

Common mistakes Areas were not counted repeatedly Cannot even pass the sample input in the problem Misunderstand that penicillin can kill only one layer of bacteria Forgot to use 64-bit integer type to store the answer

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