Largest palindrome in tree
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Time Limit: 3.0 s
Memory Limit: 512.0 MB
Description
Wasim loves Tree. Fortunately, His friend Roy somehow know it. Roy preapred a problem for him. The problem is very simple,
You are given a tree with \(N\) node and a string \(S\) consisting only lowercase characters (a-z) of length \(N\) where \(i\)-th character represents the character written on \(i\)-th node of the tree. Root of the tree is 1 and you need to find out the length of the largest palindromic path from the root. There are also Q query. In each query you have to update \(X\)-th node with chararcter \(C\).
Find out the longest palindromic path from the root after perfoming each query.
Palindrome is a word or a phrase that is the same whether you read it backwards or forwards.
Some example of palindrome: a, aa, aba, cbbc, ddddd, edcde etc.
Input
First line takes an integer \(N\) : number of nodes in tree and the length of the string \(S\)
second line takes a string \(S\)
next \(N-1\) line takes two integers \(u,v\) : means \(u\)-th node has an edge with \(v\)-th node
Then take an integer \(Q\) : number of queries
Next \(Q\) line takes an integer \(X\) and a character \(C\)
\(1 <= N <= 1000\)
\(1 <= Q <= 10^5\)
\(1 <= X <= N\)
C consists only lowercase letters.
Output
After perfoming a query print the length of the largest palindromic path from root for all Q queries.
Sample
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intial string S ="ababa";
After first query, S = "abcba", we need to update 3rd node with character c.
all possible path from root 1,
a. string "a", it's a palindrome and length 1.
1 -> 2.
a -> b. string "ab", it's not a palindrome.
1 -> 2 -> 3.
a -> b -> c. string "abc", it's not a palindrome.
1 -> 4.
a -> b. string "ab", it's not a palindrome.
1 -> 5.
a -> a. string "aa", it's a palindrome and length 2.
so maximum palindromic path length is 2.
TLE_Headquarters - round #1
- Status
- Done
- Rule
- ACM/ICPC
- Problem
- 9
- Start at
- 2024-03-27 16:00
- End at
- 2024-03-27 18:30
- Duration
- 2.5 hour(s)
- Host
- Partic.
- 62