poj3253

Fence Repair

Time Limit: 2000MS Memory Limit: 65536KTotal Submissions: 50548 Accepted: 16582

Description

Farmer John wants to repair a small length of the fence around the pasture. He measures the fence and finds that he needs N (1 ≤ N ≤ 20,000) planks of wood, each having some integer length L_i (1 ≤ L_i ≤ 50,000) units. He then purchases a single long board just long enough to saw into the N planks (i.e., whose length is the sum of the lengths L_i). FJ is ignoring the "kerf", the extra length lost to sawdust when a sawcut is made; you should ignore it, too.

FJ sadly realizes that he doesn't own a saw with which to cut the wood, so he mosies over to Farmer Don's Farm with this long board and politely asks if he may borrow a saw.

Farmer Don, a closet capitalist, doesn't lend FJ a saw but instead offers to charge Farmer John for each of the N-1 cuts in the plank. The charge to cut a piece of wood is exactly equal to its length. Cutting a plank of length 21 costs 21 cents.

Farmer Don then lets Farmer John decide the order and locations to cut the plank. Help Farmer John determine the minimum amount of money he can spend to create the N planks. FJ knows that he can cut the board in various different orders which will result in different charges since the resulting intermediate planks are of different lengths.

Input

Line 1: One integer N, the number of planks 
Lines 2..N+1: Each line contains a single integer describing the length of a needed plank

Output

Line 1: One integer: the minimum amount of money he must spend to make N-1 cuts

Sample Input

3858

Sample Output

34

思路：每次选取最小的两个木板，拼接成新的长度，push到木板队列中，直到队列中只有一块木板，这时就是最小值了。

代码：

#include <iostream>#include <stdio.h>#include <string.h>#include <queue>#include <algorithm>#include <vector>using namespace std;int main(){    int n;    while(cin>>n)    {        int a[20005];        int i;        long long int sum=0;        priority_queue<int,vector<int>,greater<int> >Q;        for(i=0;i<n;i++)        {            cin>>a[i];            Q.push(a[i]);        }        int m,n;        while(!Q.empty())        {            m=Q.top();            Q.pop();            if(Q.empty())break;            sum+=m;            n=Q.top();            Q.pop();            sum+=n;            long long int k=m+n;            Q.push(k);        }        cout<<sum<<endl;    }    return 0;}