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Hints
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View the permutation as points on a grid. One operation chooses two permutation points and paints every point strictly inside the open rectangle between them.
Some positions are dead on arrival: index , index , value , and value can never be painted. If on any of those, the answer is impossible.
If a needed point is not on that outer border, it can always be painted. So the problem is not really about choosing a custom operation for each 1; that would be overthinking it.
Let and . The operation paints every non-extreme value whose index lies between the minimum and maximum positions.
For points left of both , use endpoint index plus either or . For points right of both , use endpoint index plus either or . Thus these five operations are enough: .
Think of every permutation element as a point .
An operation paints position exactly when
and
So we are painting points inside an open rectangle whose opposite corners are two existing permutation points.
The impossible border
Some points can never be painted:
So if for any of those positions, print -1. No clever trick saves it. The rectangle is open, and the border is cooked.
Now the nice part: every other point can be covered using one fixed set of at most five operations.
The five operations
Let
Use these candidate operations:
Skip invalid operations where both endpoints are the same. Normalize the order so .
There are at most operations, exactly matching the limit.
Why these cover everything useful
Take any needed position such that
We prove one of the five operations paints it.
There are three cases based on where sits compared to and .
Case 1: is between and
Operation has endpoint values and . Since , the value condition holds. Since is between and , the index condition holds too.
So paints .
Case 2: is left of both and
Then and , because is not index .
Compare with .
If , then operation works: its endpoint values are and , and
If , then operation works: its endpoint values are and , and
Since , we have , so exactly one of those comparisons happens.
Case 3: is right of both and
This is symmetric. Now and .
Compare with .
If , then operation works because its endpoint values are and .
If , then operation works because its endpoint values are and .
Again, , so .
That proves every non-border position can be painted by these five operations.
Algorithm
For each test case:
-1.0.We do not care if these operations paint extra zeroes. The statement explicitly allows that, so don't do pointless gymnastics.
Correctness proof
First, if the algorithm prints -1, then some required position is on the border: index , index , value , or value . Such a position cannot satisfy the strict index and value inequalities of any operation, so no valid answer exists.
Otherwise, every required position satisfies and .
Let and . For any required position :
These are exactly among the five operations the algorithm outputs. Therefore every required position is painted.
The algorithm outputs at most five valid operations, so the produced answer satisfies the statement.
Complexity
Each test case is processed in time and memory. The total input size is , so this is easily fast enough.
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
using ll = long long;
void setIO() {
ios::sync_with_stdio(false);
cin.tie(nullptr);
}
int main() {
setIO();
int T;
cin >> T;
while (T--) {
int n;
cin >> n;
vector<int> p(n + 1), pos(n + 1);
for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
cin >> p[i];
pos[p[i]] = i;
}
string x;
cin >> x;
x = " " + x;
bool ok = true, need = false;
for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
if (x[i] == '1') {
need = true;
if (i == 1 || i == n || p[i] == 1 || p[i] == n) ok = false;
}
}
if (!ok) {
cout << -1 << '\n';
continue;
}
if (!need) {
cout << 0 << '\n';
continue;
}
int a = pos[1], b = pos[n];
vector<pair<int, int>> ops;
auto add = [&](int l, int r) {
if (l == r) return;
if (l > r) swap(l, r);
pair<int, int> cur = {l, r};
if (find(ops.begin(), ops.end(), cur) == ops.end()) ops.push_back(cur);
};
add(a, b);
add(1, a);
add(1, b);
add(n, a);
add(n, b);
cout << ops.size() << '\n';
for (auto [l, r] : ops) {
cout << l << ' ' << r << '\n';
}
}
return 0;
}#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
using ll = long long;
void setIO() {
ios::sync_with_stdio(false);
cin.tie(nullptr);
}
int main() {
setIO();
int T;
cin >> T;
while (T--) {
int n;
cin >> n;
vector<int> p(n + 1), pos(n + 1);
for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
cin >> p[i];
pos[p[i]] = i;
}
string x;
cin >> x;
x = " " + x;
bool ok = true, need = false;
for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
if (x[i] == '1') {
need = true;
if (i == 1 || i == n || p[i] == 1 || p[i] == n) ok = false;
}
}
if (!ok) {
cout << -1 << '\n';
continue;
}
if (!need) {
cout << 0 << '\n';
continue;
}
int a = pos[1], b = pos[n];
vector<pair<int, int>> ops;
auto add = [&](int l, int r) {
if (l == r) return;
if (l > r) swap(l, r);
pair<int, int> cur = {l, r};
if (find(ops.begin(), ops.end(), cur) == ops.end()) ops.push_back(cur);
};
add(a, b);
add(1, a);
add(1, b);
add(n, a);
add(n, b);
cout << ops.size() << '\n';
for (auto [l, r] : ops) {
cout << l << ' ' << r << '\n';
}
}
return 0;
}