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By MVernik, history, 3 years ago, In English
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Problem

You're given a set of hotel rooms, each room has it's own priority and each room has a client.

You have to minimize the number of repeating clients in the hotel rooms, according to the rules:

  • You can only swap clients with the same priority.
  • You are not allowed to swap rooms.
  • You are not allowed to swap priorities.

Limitations:
0 < Rooms < 1000
0 < Priority < 10^9
'A' < Client < 'Z'

Example


Input:
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Output:
image


The following example shows:
- in the picture1 — client "B" is repeating.
- in the picture2 — there are no repeating clients.


Thoughts

  1. I converted it to the graph and tried DFS + Multiset, but the complexity was exponential
    image
  2. Tried to create a solution using randomization, but I didn't get to it.
  3. I googled and didn't find similar problems.


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You have to minimize the number of repeating clients in the hotel rooms, according to the rules:

Do you mean minimize number of pairs of adjacent rooms with the same client? Or something else?