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摘要：The CastleIOI'94 - Day 1In a stroke of luck almost beyond imagination, Farmer John was sent a ticket to the Irish Sweepstakes (really a lottery) for his birthday. This ticket turned out to have only the winning number for the lottery! Farmer John won a fabulous castle in the Irish countryside.Br 阅读全文

摘要：Checker ChallengeExamine the 6x6 checkerboard below and note that the six checkers are arranged on the board so that one and only one is placed in each row and each column, and there is never more than one in any diagonal. (Diagonals run from southeast to northwest and southwest to northeast and inc 阅读全文

摘要：Superprime RibButchering Farmer John's cows always yields the best prime rib. You can tell prime ribs by looking at the digits lovingly stamped across them, one by one, by FJ and the USDA. Farmer John ensures that a purchaser of his prime ribs gets really prime ribs because when sliced from the 阅读全文

摘要：Prime PalindromesThe number 151 is a prime palindrome because it is both a prime number and a palindrome (it is the same number when read forward as backward). Write a program that finds all prime palindromes in the range of two supplied numbers a and b (5 <= a < b <= 100,000,000); both a a 阅读全文

摘要：Number TrianglesConsider the number triangle shown below. Write a program that calculates the highest sum of numbers that can be passed on a route that starts at the top and ends somewhere on the base. Each step can go either diagonally down to the left or diagonally down to the right. 7 ... 阅读全文

摘要：Mother's MilkFarmer John has three milking buckets of capacity A, B, and C liters. Each of the numbers A, B, and C is an integer from 1 through 20, inclusive. Initially, buckets A and B are empty while bucket C is full of milk. Sometimes, FJ pours milk from one bucket to another until the second 阅读全文

摘要：Arithmetic ProgressionsAn arithmetic progression is a sequence of the form a, a+b, a+2b, ..., a+nb where n=0,1,2,3,... . For this problem, a is a non-negative integer and b is a positive integer.Write a program that finds all arithmetic progressions of length n in the set S of bisquares. The set of 阅读全文

摘要：The ClocksIOI'94 - Day 2Consider nine clocks arranged in a 3x3 array thusly:|-------| |-------| |-------| | | | | | | | |---O | |---O | | O | | | | | | | |-------| |-------| |-------| A ... 阅读全文

摘要：Prime CryptarithmThe following cryptarithm is a multiplication problem that can be solved by substituting digits from a specified set of N digits into the positions marked with *. If the set of prime digits {2,3,5,7} is selected, the cryptarithm is called a PRIME CRYPTARITHM. * * * x * * ... 阅读全文

摘要：Calf FlacIt is said that if you give an infinite number of cows an infinite number of heavy-duty laptops (with very large keys), that they will ultimately produce all the world's great palindromes. Your job will be to detect these bovine beauties.Ignore punctuation, whitespace, numbers, and case 阅读全文

摘要：Barn RepairIt was a dark and stormy night that ripped the roof and gates off the stalls that hold Farmer John's cows. Happily, many of the cows were on vacation, so the barn was not completely full.The cows spend the night in stalls that are arranged adjacent to each other in a long line. Some s 阅读全文

摘要：Mixing MilkSince milk packaging is such a low margin business, it is important to keep the price of the raw product (milk) as low as possible. Help Merry Milk Makers get the milk they need in the cheapest possible manner.The Merry Milk Makers company has several farmers from which they may buy milk, 阅读全文

摘要：TransformationsA square pattern of size N x N (1 <= N <= 10) black and white square tiles is transformed into another square pattern. Write a program that will recognize the minimum transformation that has been applied to the original pattern given the following list of possible transformation 阅读全文

摘要：Milking CowsThree farmers rise at 5 am each morning and head for the barn to milk three cows. The first farmer begins milking his cow at time 300 (measured in seconds after 5 am) and ends at time 1000. The second farmer begins at time 700 and ends at time 1200. The third farmer begins at time 1500 a 阅读全文

摘要：Name That NumberAmong the large Wisconsin cattle ranchers, it is customary to brand cows with serial numbers to please the Accounting Department. The cow hands don't appreciate the advantage of this filing system, though, and wish to call the members of their herd by a pleasing name rather than 阅读全文

摘要：Dual PalindromesMario Cruz (Colombia) & Hugo Rickeboer (Argentina)A number that reads the same from right to left as when read from left to right is called a palindrome. The number 12321 is a palindrome; the number 77778 is not. Of course, palindromes have neither leading nor trailing zeroes, so 阅读全文

摘要：Palindromic SquaresRob KolstadPalindromes are numbers that read the same forwards as backwards. The number 12321 is a typical palindrome.Given a number base B (2 <= B <= 20 base 10), print all the integers N (1 <= N <= 300 base 10) such that the square of N is palindromic when expressed 阅读全文

摘要：Broken NecklaceYou have a necklace of N red, white, or blue beads (3<=N<=350) some of which are red, others blue, and others white, arranged at random. Here are two examples for n=29: 1 2 1 2 r b b r b r r b r... 阅读全文

摘要：Friday the ThirteenthIs Friday the 13th really an unusual event?That is, does the 13th of the month land on a Friday less often than on any other day of the week? To answer this question, write a program that will compute the frequency that the 13th of each month lands on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, We 阅读全文

摘要：Greedy Gift GiversA group of NP (2 ≤ NP ≤ 10) uniquely named friends has decided to exchange gifts of money. Each of these friends might or might not give some money to any or all of the other friends. Likewise, each friend might or might not receive money from any or all of the other friends. Your 阅读全文