[algogeeks] Re: Mountain Village

2006-04-22 Thread Farhan
Thank you very much Shalin and Wade. Your ideas are really nice. I will give them a try and give u feedback. wade, the timelimit was 10 seconds, my solution took 10.025 seconds. shalinmangar wrote: > The low input size constraints (max size of the graph is 40*40) suggest > that a brute force DFS

[algogeeks] Re: Mountain Village

2006-04-21 Thread shalinmangar
The low input size constraints (max size of the graph is 40*40) suggest that a brute force DFS to find the connected components may work fine. Each square (x,y) is a node with edges to each reachable square { {x+1,y), {x,y+1], {x-1,y}, {x,y-1} }. Maintain a boolean matrix to keep track of visited

[algogeeks] Re: Mountain Village

2006-04-20 Thread wade
Farhan wrote: > Guys, > > I was just trying to solve the problem "Mountain Village" in acm > problemset site. I figured out a way to solve it but it turned out to > be extremely inefficient. It exceeded the time limit. Can anyone give > me an idea about how to solve it with better technique and b

[algogeeks] Re: Mountain Village

2006-04-20 Thread wade
Farhan wrote: > Guys, > > I was just trying to solve the problem "Mountain Village" in acm > problemset site. I figured out a way to solve it but it turned out to > be extremely inefficient. It exceeded the time limit. Can anyone give > me an idea about how to solve it with better technique and be