Problem Link : D. Mushroom Kingdom Category : Bitmask, Bfs Contest : Intra AIUB Programming Contest 2024 (Senior)
#include "bits/stdc++.h" using namespace std; #define int long long int #define endl '\n' using pii = pair<int, int>; int dr[] = {1, -1, 0, 0}; // 4 Direction int dc[] = {0, 0, 1, -1}; void task() { int n; cin >> n; vector<char> chars; vector<vector<char>> grid(n + 1, vector<char>(n + 1)); for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) { for (int j = 1; j <= n; j++) { cin >> grid[i][j]; chars.push_back(grid[i][j]); } } pii src; cin >> src.first >> src.second; pii des; cin >> des.first >> des.second; sort(chars.begin(), chars.end()); chars.erase(unique(chars.begin(), chars.end()), chars.end()); int ans = 10; for (int mask = 0; mask < (1 << (int)chars.size()); mask++) { set<int> validChars; for (int i = 0; i < chars.size(); i++) { if (mask >> i & 1) { validChars.insert(chars[i]); } } vector<vector<bool>> visited(n + 1, vector<bool>(n + 1)); queue<pii> pq; if (validChars.count(grid[src.first][src.second])) { pq.push(src); visited[src.first][src.second] = 1; } while (pq.size()) { pii cur = pq.front(); pq.pop(); for (int k = 0; k < 4; k++) { int x = cur.first + dr[k]; int y = cur.second + dc[k]; if (x >= 1 and x <= n and y >= 1 and y <= n and visited[x][y] == 0 and validChars.count(grid[x][y])) { pq.push(pii(x, y)); visited[x][y] = 1; } } } if (visited[des.first][des.second]) { ans = min(ans, (int)__builtin_popcount(mask)); } } cout << ans << endl; } signed main() { ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false); cin.tie(nullptr); cout.tie(nullptr); cout.precision(12); bool FILEIO = true; string FILE = "in.txt"; if (FILEIO and fopen(FILE.c_str(), "r")) { freopen(FILE.c_str(), "r", stdin); } int tc; cin >> tc; for (int tcase = 1; tcase <= tc; tcase++) { task(); } }