POJ 3069 Saruman's Army

Saruman‘s Army

Description

Saruman the White must lead his army along a straight path from Isengard to Helm’s Deep. To keep track of his forces, Saruman distributes seeing stones, known as palantirs, among the troops. Each palantir has a maximum effective range of R units,
and must be carried by some troop in the army (i.e., palantirs are not allowed to “free float” in mid-air). Help Saruman take control of Middle Earth by determining the minimum number of palantirs needed for Saruman to ensure that each of his minions is within R units
of some palantir.

Input

The input test file will contain multiple cases. Each test case begins with a single line containing an integer R, the maximum effective range of all palantirs (where 0 ≤ R ≤ 1000), and an integer n, the number of troops in Saruman’s
army (where 1 ≤ n ≤ 1000). The next line contains n integers, indicating the positions x₁, …, x_n of each troop (where 0 ≤ x_i ≤ 1000). The end-of-file is marked by a test case with R = n =
?1.

Output

For each test case, print a single integer indicating the minimum number of palantirs needed.

Sample Input

0 3
10 20 20
10 7
70 30 1 7 15 20 50
-1 -1

Sample Output

2
4

Hint

In the first test case, Saruman may place a palantir at positions 10 and 20. Here, note that a single palantir with range 0 can cover both of the troops at position 20.

In the second test case, Saruman can place palantirs at position 7 (covering troops at 1, 7, and 15), position 20 (covering positions 20 and 30), position 50, and position 70. Here, note that palantirs must be distributed among troops and are not allowed
to “free float.” Thus, Saruman cannot place a palantir at position 60 to cover the troops at positions 50 and 70.

题意：

直线上有n个点，从这n个点中选择若干个，给他们加上标记。

对每个点，其距离为r以内的区域里必须有带标记的点（自己本身带有标记的点，能够觉得与其距离为0的地方有一个带有标记的点）。在满足这个条件的情况下，希望能为尽可能少的点加入标记，请问至少要有多少点被加上标记

#include <cstdio>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;

int r, n;
int x[1001];

void solve()
{
    sort(x, x + n);
    int i = 0, ans = 0;
    while (i < n){
        int s = x[i++];   //s是没有被覆盖的最左的点的位置
        while (i < n && x[i] <= s + r)  //一直向右前进直到距s的距离大于r的点
            i++;
        int p = x[i - 1];  //p是新加上标点的点的位置
        while (i < n && x[i] <= p + r)   //一直向右前进直到距p的距离大于r的点
            i++;
        ans++;
    }
    printf("%d\n", ans);
}

int main()
{
    while (scanf("%d%d", &r, &n) != EOF){
        if (r == -1 && n == -1)
            break;
        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++){
            scanf("%d", &x[i]);
        }
        solve();
    }
    return 0;
}

POJ 3069 Saruman's Army