UVA 10905 Children's Game

4^thIIUCInter-University Programming Contest, 2005

A

Children’s Game

Input: standard input
Output: standard output

Problemsetter: Md. Kamruzzaman

There are lots of number games for children. These games are pretty easy to play but not so easy to make. We will discuss about an interesting game here. Each player will be given N positive integer. (S)He can make a big integer by appending those integers after one another. Such as if there are 4 integers as 123, 124, 56, 90 then the following integers can be made – 1231245690, 1241235690, 5612312490, 9012312456, 9056124123 etc. In fact 24 such integers can be made. But one thing is sure that 9056124123 is the largest possible integer which can be made.

You may think that it’s very easy to find out the answer but will it be easy for a child who has just got the idea of number?

Input

Each input starts with a positive integer N (≤ 50). In next lines there are N positive integers. Input is terminated by N = 0, which should not be processed.

Output

For each input set, you have to print the largest possible integer which can be made by appending all the N integers.

Sample Input

Output for Sample Input

4
123 124 56 90
5
123 124 56 90 9
5
9 9 9 9 9
0

9056124123
99056124123
99999

给出N个数，要求把它们拼凑起来，让得到的数值是最大的。

主要是搞清楚谁在前面的问题，那么拼起来比一比就好了，直接用sort即可。

#include<iostream>  #include<algorithm>#include<math.h>#include<cstdio>#include<string>using namespace std;int n;string s[100];int cmp(string &a, string &b){return a + b > b + a;}int main(){while (cin >> n, n){for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) cin >> s[i];sort(s, s + n, cmp);for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) cout << s[i];cout << endl;}return 0;}