2012-02-25 21:14:02Morris

[UVA] 417 - Word Index

 Word Index 

Encoding schemes are often used in situations requiring encryption or information storage/transmission economy. Here, we develop a simple encoding scheme that encodes particular types of words with five or fewer (lower case) letters as integers.

Consider the English alphabet {a,b,c,...,z}. Using this alphabet, a set of valid words are to be formed that are in a strict lexicographic order. In this set of valid words, the successive letters of a word are in a strictly ascending order; that is, later letters in a valid word are always after previous letters with respect to their positions in the alphabet list {a,b,c,...,z}. For example,

abc aep gwz

are all valid three-letter words, whereas

aab are cat

are not.

For each valid word associate an integer which gives the position of the word in the alphabetized list of words. That is:

    a -> 1
    b -> 2
    .
    .
    z -> 26
    ab -> 27
    ac -> 28
    .
    .
    az -> 51
    bc -> 52
    .
    .
    vwxyz -> 83681

Your program is to read a series of input lines. Each input line will have a single word on it, that will be from one to five letters long. For each word read, if the word is invalid give the number 0. If the word read is valid, give the word's position index in the above alphabetical list.

Input

The input consists of a series of single words, one per line. The words are at least one letter long and no more that five letters. Only the lower case alphabetic {a,b,...,z} characters will be used as input. The first letter of a word will appear as the first character on an input line.

The input will be terminated by end-of-file.

Output

The output is a single integer, greater than or equal to zero (0) and less than or equal 83681. The first digit of an output value should be the first character on a line. There is one line of output for each input line.

Sample Input

z
a
cat
vwxyz

Sample Output

26
1
0
83681


做法 : 數學解
以前用暴力的方法, 現在改善了

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main() {
int i, j;
int C[50][50] = {};
C[0][0] = 1;
for(i = 1; i < 50; i++) {
C[i][0] = 1;
for(j = 1; j <= i; j++)
C[i][j] = C[i-1][j-1] + C[i-1][j];
}
char s[10];
while(scanf("%s", &s) == 1) {
int len = strlen(s), idx = 0;
for(i = 1; i < len; i++) {
if(s[i] < s[i-1]) {
puts("0");break;
}
idx += C[26][i];
}
if(i != len) continue;
for(i = 0; i < len; i++) {
for(j = (i == 0) ? 1 : s[i-1]-'a'+2; j <= s[i]-'a'; j++)
idx += C[26-j][len-i-1];
}
printf("%d\n", idx+1);
}
return 0;
}

口袋蔥餅 2016-04-01 11:52:35

我看出來第一段for建立出一個巴斯卡三角形了
不過接下來就看不懂了
如果你能解釋一下的話,我會很感謝的!

版主回應
首先,對於某一個長度為 L 的組合,計算長度 1 到 L-1 的所有方法數,
因此在第一部份的迴圈計算 idx += C[26][i];

接著,在相同長度 L 下,為了要計算他排第幾個,勢必考慮每一個位置的都小於當前字符 c 的所有可能,
假設要計算
2016-04-01 13:14:33