Confusing Algorithm
RBotha
r at ymond.co.za
Mon Apr 22 08:39:43 EDT 2013
I'm facing the following problem:
"""
In a city of towerblocks, Spiderman can
“cover” all the towers by connecting the
first tower with a spider-thread to the top
of a later tower and then to a next tower
and then to yet another tower until he
reaches the end of the city. Threads are
straight lines and cannot intersect towers.
Your task is to write a program that finds
the minimal number of threads to cover all
the towers. The list of towers is given as a
list of single digits indicating their height.
-Example:
List of towers: 1 5 3 7 2 5 2
Output: 4
"""
I'm not sure how a 'towerblock' could be defined. How square does a shape have to be to qualify as a towerblock? Any help on solving this problem?
Thank you.
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