@DK can you please explain your solution, i couldn't understand...

@all any alternate solution ?

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 11:02 PM, DK <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is a simple problem:
>
> 1. Understand that if you are selecting 2 petrol pumps, say P and Q with
> say another petrol pump R between them, then it is optimal to include R into
> the set of selected petrol pumps as the max-distance for the chosen pumps
> remains PQ but number of included petrol pumps is reduced.
>
> Diagram: P --- R --- Q
>
> Therefore, all the selected pumps in the final solution are going to be
> contiguous.
>
> The simplest solution thus is to sort the points along the line AB. O(n log
> n)
> Then the answer is min{ai+10 - ai} for i = 0 to N-11 - O(n)
>
> Therefore net complexity is O(n log n).
> If the petrol pumps are given in sorted order from distance from A, then
> the complexity is simply O(n).
>
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