Catch That Cow
Time Limit:2000MS Memory Limit:65536K
Total Submit:118 Accepted:30
Description
Farmer John has been informed of the location of a fugitive cow and wants to catch her immediately. He starts at a point N (0 ≤ N ≤ 100,000) on a number line and the cow is at a point K (0 ≤ K ≤ 100,000) on the same number line. Farmer John has two modes of transportation: walking and teleporting.
* Walking: FJ can move from any point X to the points X - 1 or X + 1 in a single minute
* Teleporting: FJ can move from any point X to the point 2 × X in a single minute.
If the cow, unaware of its pursuit, does not move at all, how long does it take for Farmer John to retrieve it?
Input
Line 1: Two space-separated integers: N and K
Output
Line 1: The least amount of time, in minutes, it takes for Farmer John to catch the fugitive cow.
Sample Input
5 17
Sample Output
4
Hint
The fastest way for Farmer John to reach the fugitive cow is to move along the following path: 5-10-9-18-17, which takes 4 minutes.
Source
struct POINT
{
int pos;
int step;
}now,next;
queue<POINT>Q;
bool visited[M];
int n,k;
int bfs()
{
while(!Q.empty())
Q.pop();
now.pos=n;
now.step=0;
visited[now.pos]=true;
Q.push(now);
while(!Q.empty())
{
now=Q.front();
Q.pop();
next=now;
for(int i=0;i<3;i++)
{
if(i==0)
next.pos=now.pos+1;
if(i==1)
next.pos=now.pos-1;
if(i==2)
next.pos=now.pos*2;
next.step=now.step+1;
if(next.pos==k)
return next.step;
if(next.pos<0||next.pos>M)
continue;
if(!visited[next.pos])
{
visited[next.pos]=true;
Q.push(next);
}
}
}
return INF;
}
int main()
{
while(cin>>n>>k)
{
memset(visited,false,sizeof(visited));
if(n<k)
cout<<bfs()<<endl;
if(n==k)
cout<<0<<endl;
if(n>k)
cout<<n-k<<endl;
}
}