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Indeed there are many different tourist routes from our city to Rome. You are supposed to find your clients the route with the least cost while gaining the most happiness. Input Specification: Each input file contains one test case. For each case, the first line contains 2 positive integers N (2<=

A number that will be the same when it is written forwards or backwards is known as a Palindromic Number. For example, 1234321 is a palindromic number. All single digit numbers are palindromic numbers. Non-palindromic numbers can be paired with palindromic ones via a series of operations. First, the

A traveler’s map gives the distances between cities along the highways, together with the cost of each highway. Now you are supposed to write a program to help a traveler to decide the shortest path between his/her starting city and the destination. If such a shortest path is not unique, you are sup

Shuffling is a procedure used to randomize a deck of playing cards. Because standard shuffling techniques are seen as weak, and in order to avoid “inside jobs” where employees collaborate with gamblers by performing inadequate shuffles, many casinos employ automatic shuffling machines. Your task is

Given a string, you are supposed to output the length of the longest symmetric sub-string. For example, given “Is PAT&TAP symmetric?”, the longest symmetric sub-string is “s PAT&TAP s”, hence you must output 11. Input Specification: Each input file contains one test case which gives a non-empty st

A Digital Library contains millions of books, stored according to their titles, authors, key words of their abstracts, publishers, and published years. Each book is assigned an unique 7-digit number as its ID. Given any query from a reader, you are supposed to output the resulting books, sorted in i

Given a non-empty tree with root R, and with weight Wi assigned to each tree node Ti. The weight of a path from R to Lis defined to be the sum of the weights of all the nodes along the path from R to any leaf node L. Now given any weighted tree, you are supposed to find all the paths with their weig

When register on a social network, you are always asked to specify your hobbies in order to find some potential friends with the same hobbies. A “social cluster” is a set of people who have some of their hobbies in common. You are supposed to find all the clusters. Input Specification: Each input

According to Wikipedia: Insertion sort iterates, consuming one input element each repetition, and growing a sorted output list. Each iteration, insertion sort removes one element from the input data, finds the location it belongs within the sorted list, and inserts it there. It repeats until no inpu

According to Wikipedia: Insertion sort iterates, consuming one input element each repetition, and growing a sorted output list. Each iteration, insertion sort removes one element from the input data, finds the location it belongs within the sorted list, and inserts it there. It repeats until no inpu