UVA 10129 Play on Words

Some of the secret doors contain a very interesting word puzzle. The team of archaeologists has to solve it to open that doors. Because there is no other way to open the doors, the puzzle is very important for us. There is a large number of magnetic plates on every door. Every plate has one word written on it. The plates must be arranged into a sequence in such a way that every word begins with the same letter as the previous word ends. For example, the word ‘acm’ can be followed by the word ‘motorola’. Your task is to write a computer program that will read the list of words and determine whether it is possible to arrange all of the plates in a sequence (according to the given rule) and consequently to open the door.

Input

The input consists of T test cases. The number of them (T) is given on the first line of the input file. Each test case begins with a line containing a single integer number N that indicates the number of plates (1 ≤ N ≤ 100000). Then exactly N lines follow, each containing a single word. Each word contains at least two and at most 1000 lowercase characters, that means only letters ‘a’ through ‘z’ will appear in the word. The same word may appear several times in the list.

Output

Your program has to determine whether it is possible to arrange all the plates in a sequence such that the first letter of each word is equal to the last letter of the previous word. All the plates from the list must be used, each exactly once. The words mentioned several times must be used that number of times. If there exists such an ordering of plates, your program should print the sentence ‘Ordering is possible.’. Otherwise, output the sentence ‘The door cannot be opened.’

Sample Input

3

2

acm

ibm

3

acm

malform

mouse

2

ok

ok

Sample Output

The door cannot be opened.

Ordering is possible.

The door cannot be opened.

感谢大佬们的思路及代码。原来字符也可以并查集。长见识了。

 //Asimple
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
#define INF (1<<20)
#define mod 10007
#define swap(a,b,t) t = a, a = b, b = t
#define CLS(a, v) memset(a, v, sizeof(a))
#define debug(a)  cout << #a << " = "  << a <<endl
using namespace std;
typedef long long ll;
const int maxn = 30+5;
const double PI=atan(1.0)*4;
ll n, m, res, ans, len, T, k, num, sum, l;
int fa[maxn];
int ind[maxn], oud[maxn];
int rk[maxn];

void init(){
    CLS(ind, 0);
    CLS(oud, 0);
    for(int i=0; i<maxn; i++){
        fa[i] = i;
        rk[i] = 0;
    }
}

int find_set(int x){
    return fa[x]= (fa[x]==x?x:find_set(fa[x]));
}

void make_set(int x, int y){
    x = find_set(x);
    y = find_set(y);
    if( rk[x]>rk[y] ) {
        fa[y] = x;
    } else {
        if( rk[x]==rk[y] ) rk[y]++;
        fa[x] = y;
    }
}

void solve(){
    bool f = true;
    int cnt = 0;
    for(int i=0; i<maxn; i++) {
        if( (ind[i] || oud[i] ) && fa[i]==i) cnt ++;
    }
    if( cnt!=1 ) f = false;
    int sumin=0, sumou=0;
    for(int i=0; i<maxn; i++) {
        if( !f ) break;
        if( ind[i]!=oud[i] ){
            if( ind[i]==oud[i]+1) sumin ++;
            else if( oud[i]==ind[i]+1 ) sumou++;
            else f = false;
        }
    }
    if( sumin && sumou && sumin+sumou>2 ) f = false;
    if( f ) cout << "Ordering is possible." << endl;
    else cout << "The door cannot be opened." << endl;
}

void input() {
    ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
    cin >> T;
    while( T -- ) {
        cin >> n;
        init();
        for(int i=0; i<n; i++) {
            string str;
            cin >> str;
            int a = str[0]-'a', b=str[str.length()-1]-'a';
            oud[a]++;
            ind[b]++;
            make_set(a, b);
        }
        solve();
    }
}

int main(){
    input();
    return 0;
}