Am Samstag, 16. April 2016 07:02:54 UTC+2 schrieb Nisarg Mehta: > In 2nd sample of BFF problem..your solution will seem like this when you form > circle... > > > 1 > 3 4 > 2 > > > Now, condition was that...each member must be adjecent to its BFF...here in > this case, 3 violets the condition, as it is neither BFF of 1 nor or > 4...that's why it is not valid answer.. > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Anon82910 <kaku...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't get how the BFF circle is supposed to be made. > > > > The sample case shows that the solution for: > > 7 8 10 10 9 2 9 6 3 3 > > is this sitting configuration: > > 7 9 3 10 4 1 > > Even though there is no BFF relationship between 1 and 4, the circle is > correct because 1's BFF is 7. > > The BFF relationship can be represented as: 10<-3<-9<-7<-1 && 10<-4 > > I assume that it works this way because the circle can be completed if at > least one of the neighbor is the kid's BFF. > > > > But why is the max number of kids for this sample problem = 3?: > > 3 3 4 1 > > This configuration should be possible to solve the problem: > > 3 1 4 2 > > Same representation as previous example: 3<-1<-4 && 3<-2 > > > > Can't seem to figure out what I did wrong.. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Code Jam" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-code...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to googl...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/1086252a-1cc4-413b-ab21-c16d03c60e12%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Thanks! It kinda slipped my mind that each member has to have at least 1 BFF adjacent to itself. Somehow, I thought that each member had to have at least 1 BFF adjacent to itself or at least is referenced by 1 other person adjacent to itself. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/ea7b4a36-49c9-483d-9743-ee689f1904cb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
