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DMPG '18 G1 - Musical Chairs

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Approach

Data structures

Musical Chairs circle, K empty chairs, K+1 students, and last-standing output match the simulation.

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Implementation

musical_chairs.cpp

C++

    #include <bits/stdc++.h>
     
    using namespace std;
     
    int main(){
        ios::sync_with_stdio(0);
        cin.tie(0);
        int n, k;
        cin >> n >> k;
        vector<bool> empty(n + 1, false);
        for(int i = 0, x; i < k; i++){
            cin >> x;
            empty[x] = true;
     
        }
        vector<int> st(n + 1);
        for(int i = 1, x; i <= k + 1; i++){
            cin >> x;
            st[x] = i;
        }
        stack<int> stk;
        int emp = k, cur = 1;
        while(emp){
            if(st[cur]){
                stk.push(st[cur]);
                st[cur] = 0;
            }
            if(empty[cur] && !stk.empty()){
                empty[cur] = false;
                stk.pop();
                emp--;
            }
            cur = cur % n + 1;
        }
        cout << stk.top() << '\n';
        return 0;
    }
     
        

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