A. Dynasty Puzzles
time limit per test
2 seconds
memory limit per test
256 megabytes
input
standard input
output
standard output
The ancient Berlanders believed that the longer the name, the more important its bearer is. Thus, Berland kings were famous for their long names. But long names are somewhat inconvenient, so the Berlanders started to abbreviate the names of their kings. They called every king by the first letters of its name. Thus, the king, whose name was Victorious Vasily Pupkin, was always called by the berlanders VVP.
In Berland over its long history many dynasties of kings replaced each other, but they were all united by common traditions. Thus, according to one Berland traditions, to maintain stability in the country, the first name of the heir should be the same as the last name his predecessor (hence, the first letter of the abbreviated name of the heir coincides with the last letter of the abbreviated name of the predecessor). Berlanders appreciate stability, so this tradition has never been broken. Also Berlanders like perfection, so another tradition requires that the first name of the first king in the dynasty coincides with the last name of the last king in this dynasty (hence, the first letter of the abbreviated name of the first king coincides with the last letter of the abbreviated name of the last king). This tradition, of course, has also been always observed.
The name of a dynasty is formed by very simple rules: we take all the short names of the kings in the order in which they ruled, and write them in one line. Thus, a dynasty of kings "ab" and "ba" is called "abba", and the dynasty, which had only the king "abca", is called "abca".
Vasya, a historian, has recently found a list of abbreviated names of all Berland kings and their relatives. Help Vasya to find the maximally long name of the dynasty that could have existed in Berland.
Note that in his list all the names are ordered by the time, that is, if name A is earlier in the list than B, then if A and B were kings, then king A ruled before king B.
Input
The first line contains integer n (1 ≤ n ≤ 5·105) — the number of names in Vasya's list. Next n lines contain n abbreviated names, one per line. An abbreviated name is a non-empty sequence of lowercase Latin letters. Its length does not exceed 10 characters.
Output
Print a single number — length of the sought dynasty's name in letters.
If Vasya's list is wrong and no dynasty can be found there, print a single number 0.
Sample test(s)
input
3 abc ca cba
output
6
input
4 vvp vvp dam vvp
output
0
input
3 ab c def
output
1
Note
In the first sample two dynasties can exist: the one called "abcca" (with the first and second kings) and the one called "abccba" (with the first and third kings).
In the second sample there aren't acceptable dynasties.
The only dynasty in the third sample consists of one king, his name is "c".
Here the state of dp is dp[starting alphabet] [ending alphabet] which stores the length of the maximum segment that starts with starting alphabet and ends with ending alphabet
suppose we have a string like f........l where f denotes the first and l denotes the last alphabet. On facing such string
we iterate over all characters from 0 to 25 to set the following thing
for(int i=0;i<26;i++)
dp[start with i ][end last character of received string ]= length of the string + dp[ start with i][end with first character of the string].
Now two major considerations are taken into account
for every string we try to update dp[f][l] where f is the first alphabet and l is the last alphabet.
And the rest operations we do only when dp[ start with i][end with first character of the string] !=0.
The final answer is maximum over dp[i][i] for 0<=i<26
Here is the code
#include<bits/stdc++.h>
#define ff first
#define ss second
#define mp make_pair
#define pb push_back
using namespace std;
int dp[28][28];
int main()
{
int n;
vector<string> v;
cin>>n;
char c[20];
for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
{
scanf("%s",&c);
int len=strlen(c);
int last=c[len-1]-'a';
for(int j=0;j<26;j++)
{
if(dp[j][c[0]-'a']!=0 || j==c[0]-'a')
{
// cout<<"trying to se t "<<" statt with "<<j<<" "<<"end with "<<last<<endl;
dp[j][last]=max(dp[j][last],len+dp[j][c[0]-'a']);
// if(dp[j][last]>0)
// {
// cout<<"ping "<<j<<" "<<last<<endl;
// }
}
}
}
int res=0;
for(int i=0;i<26;i++)
{
res=max(dp[i][i],res);
}
cout<<res<<endl;
}
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