| Given prices for post stamps, calculate how much money should be spent to create M unique stamp collections | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Complexity (1-100): 20
A new philately club is open, and M
philatelists are striving to become its members. At each meeting, the
club takes only one member on. In order to become a member,
a philatelist must demonstrate that his or her collection of
stamps does not contain the same stamp twice and is different from
collections of other members. Each philatelist therefore buys a
collection of stamps, trying to spend as little money as possible, at
the post stamp shop, offering N kinds of stamps (3≤N≤10000) priced x1,x2,...,xn respectively (3≤xi≤10000, i=1 .. N). For example, if the shop offers 5 kinds of stamps which cost 3, 4, 6, 10, 15, the philatelists will buy them in the following order:
Write a program which, based on stamp prices, would calculate the minimum amount of money each philatelist should spend to become a philately club member. The input data should be read from a text file, containing numbers in separate lines in the following order: the first line id N, the second is M, the next N lines contain stamp prices in ascending order. The output should contain amount of money for each of M philatelists, in ascending order. Note: All numbers are natural, N≤ M≤2N-1, M≤15000. The program is allowed to run no longer than 3 seconds. Self-tests: self-test 1, self-test 2 |
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| Solution: | solution.pas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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