
USACO 2016 February Contest, Bronze
Problem 3. Load Balancing
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Farmer John's N cows are each standing at distinct locations
(x1,y1)…(xn,yn) on his two-dimensional farm (1≤N≤100,
and the xi's and yi's are positive odd integers of size at most B). FJ
wants to partition his field by building a long (effectively infinite-length)
north-south fence with equation x=a (a will be an even integer, thus
ensuring that he does not build the fence through the position of any cow). He
also wants to build a long (effectively infinite-length) east-west fence with
equation y=b, where b is an even integer. These two fences cross at the
point (a,b), and together they partition his field into four regions.
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FJ wants to choose a and b so that the cows appearing in the four resulting regions are reasonably "balanced", with no region containing too many cows. Letting M be the maximum number of cows appearing in one of the four regions, FJ wants to make M as small as possible. Please help him determine this smallest possible value for M.
For the first five test cases, B is guaranteed to be at most 100. In all test cases, B is guaranteed to be at most 1,000,000.
INPUT FORMAT (file balancing.in):
The first line of the input contains two integers, N and B. The next n lines each contain the location of a single cow, specifying its x and y coordinates.OUTPUT FORMAT (file balancing.out):
You should output the smallest possible value of M that FJ can achieve by positioning his fences optimally.SAMPLE INPUT:
7 10 7 3 5 5 9 7 3 1 7 7 5 3 9 1
SAMPLE OUTPUT:
2
Problem credits: Brian Dean