国际竞赛ACM北大教程经典例题1744 Elevator Stopping Plan.doc

解题报告：Phone numbers 题目来源：POJ 1744， /JudgeOnline/showproblem?problem_id=1744 解法或类型： 二分 + 谈心 作者：张志强 Elevator Stopping Plan Time Limit:1S? Memory Limit:65536KTotal Submit:414 Accepted:77 Description ZSoft Corp. is a software company in GaoKe Hall. And the workers in the hall are very hard-working. But the elevator in that hall always drives them crazy. Why? Because there is only one elevator in GaoKe Hall, while there are hundreds of companies in it. Every morning, people must waste a lot of time waiting for the elevator.Hal, a smart guy in ZSoft, wants to change this situation. He wants to find a way to make the elevator work more effectively. But its not an easy job. There are H floors in GaoKe Hall. It takes 4 seconds for the elevator to raise one floor. It seconds if the elevator goes from the 1 st floor to the?means:It costs (n-1)*4 nth floor without stop. And the elevator stops 10 second once. So, if the seconds (It is not?elevator stops at each floor, it will cost (n-1)*4+(n-2)*10 necessary to calculate the stopping time at nth floor). In another way, it takes seconds?20 seconds for the workers to go up or down one floor. It takes (n-1)*20 for them to walk from the 1 st floor to the nth floor. Obviously, it is not a good idea. So some people choose to use the elevator to get a floor which is the nearest to their office. After thinking over for a long time, Hal finally found a way to improve this situation. He told the elevator man his idea: First, the elevator man asks the people which floors they want to go. He will then design a stopping plan which minimize the time the last person need to arrive the floor where his office locates. For example, if the elevator is required to stop at the 4 th , 5 th and 10 th floor, the stopping plan would be: the elevator stops at 4 th and 10 th floor. Because the elevator will arrive 4 th second, then it will stop 10 seconds, then it will arrive 10 th?floor at 3*4=12 second. People who want to go 4 th floor will reach t