POJ 3264 Balanced Lineup

Balanced Lineup

Time Limit: 5000MS		Memory Limit: 65536K
Total Submissions: 28725		Accepted: 13519
Case Time Limit: 2000MS

Description

For the daily milking, Farmer John's N cows (1 ≤ N ≤ 50,000) always line up in the same order. One day Farmer John decides to organize a game of Ultimate Frisbee with some of the cows. To keep things simple, he will take a contiguous range of cows from the milking lineup to play the game. However, for all the cows to have fun they should not differ too much in height.

Farmer John has made a list of Q (1 ≤ Q ≤ 200,000) potential groups of cows and their heights (1 ≤ height ≤ 1,000,000). For each group, he wants your help to determine the difference in height between the shortest and the tallest cow in the group.

Input

Line 1: Two space-separated integers, N and Q. 
Lines 2..N+1: Line i+1 contains a single integer that is the height of cow i 
Lines N+2..N+Q+1: Two integers A and B (1 ≤ A ≤ B ≤ N), representing the range of cows from A to B inclusive.

Output

Lines 1..Q: Each line contains a single integer that is a response to a reply and indicates the difference in height between the tallest and shortest cow in the range.

Sample Input

6 3

1

7

3

4

2

5

1 5

4 6

2 2

Sample Output

6
3
0

Source

USACO 2007 January Silver

 

#include <iostream>

#include <cstdio>

#include <cstring>

using namespace std;

#define lson l,m,rt<<1

#define rson m+1,r,rt<<1|1

const int Max=111111;

int maxn[Max<<2];

int minn[Max<<2];

void pushUP(int rt)

{

    maxn[rt]=max(maxn[rt<<1],maxn[rt<<1|1]);

    minn[rt]=min(minn[rt<<1],minn[rt<<1|1]);

}

void build(int l,int r,int rt)

{

    if(l==r)

    {

        int a;

        scanf("%d",&a);

        maxn[rt]=minn[rt]=a;

        return ;

    }

    int m=(r+l)>>1;

    build(lson); build(rson);

    pushUP(rt);

}

int querymax(int L,int R,int l,int r,int rt)

{

    if(L<=l&&r<=R)

    {

        return maxn[rt];

    }

    int m=(l+r)>>1;

    int ret=0xdeadbeef;

    if(L<=m)

    {

        ret=max(ret,querymax(L,R,lson));

    }

    if(m<R)

    {

        ret=max(ret,querymax(L,R,rson));

    }

    return ret;

}

int querymin(int L,int R,int l,int r,int rt)

{

    if(L<=l&&r<=R)

    {

        return minn[rt];

    }

    int m=(l+r)>>1;

    int ret=-0xdeadbeef;

    if(L<=m)

    {

        ret=min(ret,querymin(L,R,lson));

    }

    if(R>m)

    {

        ret=min(ret,querymin(L,R,rson));

    }

    return ret;

}

int main()

{

    int n,m;

    scanf("%d%d",&n,&m);

    build(1,n,1);

    while(m--)

    {

        int a,b;

        scanf("%d%d",&a,&b);

        printf("%d ",querymax(a,b,1,n,1)-querymin(a,b,1,n,1));

    }

    return 0;

}