https://atcoder.jp/contests/abc099/tasks/abc099_c

  • The number of seeds of the amount of money that can be withdrawn at one time is about 20 at most.
  • I wonder if I can make it in time to explore from N to width first.
    • Assuming, of course, that you would prune branches if they were “already visited by shorter means”.
    • Each vertex enters the search waiting list at most once, and 20 cases are searched from the ones entered, or about 2 x 10
    • It’s an ABC C problem, so it’s not that hard.
  • Official Explanation
    • It doesn’t say if the above method is the right one.
    • The notional solution method is to find the minimum value for i less than or equal to N by finding the cost of expressing it with only 6 and 1 and the cost of expressing the rest with only 9 and 1.

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