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Day 1 Task 2: Hotter Colder
Jack and Jill play a game called Hotter, Colder.
Jill has a number between 1 and N, and Jack makes
repeated attempts to guess it.
Each of Jack's guesses is a number between 1 and N. In response to each guess, Jill answers hotter, colder or same. For Jack's first guess, Jill answers same. For the remaining guesses Jill answers:
- hotter if this guess is closer to Jill's number than his previous guess
- colder if this guess is farther from Jill's number than his previous guess
- same if this guess is neither closer to nor further from Jill's number than his previous guess.
You are to implement a procedure HC(N) that plays Jack's role. This implementation may repeatedly call Guess(G), with G a number between 1 and N. Guess(G) will return 1 to indicate hotter, -1 to indicate colder or 0 to indicate same. HC(N) must return Jill's number.
Example
As example, assume N=5, and Jill has chosen the number 2. When procedure HC makes the following sequence of calls to Guess, the results in the second column will be returned.At this point Jack knows the answer, and HC should return 2. It has taken Jack 5 guesses to determine Jill's number. You can do better.
Call Returned value Explanation Guess(5) 0 Same (first call) Guess(3) 1 Hotter Guess(4) -1 Colder Guess(1) 1 Hotter Guess(3) 0 Same
Subtask 1 [25 points]
HC(N) must call Guess(G) at most 500 times. There will be at most 125 250 calls to HC(N), with N between 1 and 500.Subtask 2 [25 points]
HC(N) must call Guess(G) at most 18 times. There will be at most 125 250 calls to HC(N) with N between 1 and 500.Subtask 3 [25 points]
HC(N) must call Guess(G) at most 16 times. There will be at most 125 250 calls to HC(N) with N between 1 and 500.Subtask 4 [up to 25 points]
Let W be the largest integer, such that 2W≤3N. For this subtask your solution will score:- 0 points, if HC(N) calls Guess(G) 2W times or more,
- 25α points, where α is the largest real number, such that 0<α<1 and HC(N) calls Guess(G) at most 2W-αW times,
- 25 points, if HC(N) calls Guess(G) at most W times.
There will be at most 1 000 000 calls to HC(N) with N between 1 and 500 000 000.
Be sure to initialize any variables used by HC every time it is called.
Implementation Details
- Use the RunC programming and test environment
- Implementation folder: /home/ioi2010-contestant/hottercolder/ (prototype: hottercolder.zip)
- To be implemented by contestant: hottercolder.c or hottercolder.cpp or hottercolder.pas
- Contestant interface: hottercolder.h or hottercolder.pas
- Grader interface: grader.h or graderlib.pas
- Sample grader: grader.c or grader.cpp or grader.pas and graderlib.pas
- Sample grader input: grader.in.1 grader.in.2.
Note: The input file contains several lines, each containing N and Jill's number. - Expected output for sample grader input: the grader will create files grader.out.1 grader.out.2 etc.
- If the implementation correctly implements Subtask 1, one line of output will contain OK 1
- If the implementation correctly implements Subtask 2, one line of output will contain OK 2
- If the implementation correctly implements Subtask 3, one line of output will contain OK 3
- If the implementation correctly implements Subtask 4, one line of output will contain OK 4 alpha α
- Compile and run (command line): runc grader.c or runc grader.cpp or runc grader.pas
- Compile and run (gedit plugin): Control-R, while editing any implementation file.
- Submit (command line): submit grader.c or submit grader.cpp or submit grader.pas
- Submit (gedit plugin): Control-J, while editing any implementation or grader file.