The shuttle company is running a contest: one gold coin for anyone that can find the earliest timestamp such that the first bus ID departs at that time and each subsequent listed bus ID departs at that subsequent minute. (The first line in your input is no longer relevant.)
For example, suppose you have the same list of bus IDs as before:
7,13,x,x,59,x,31,19
An x
in the schedule means there are no constraints on what bus IDs must depart at that time.
This means you are looking for the earliest timestamp (called t
) such that:
7
departs at timestamp t
.13
departs one minute after timestamp t
.t
.59
departs four minutes after timestamp t
.t
.31
departs six minutes after timestamp t
.19
departs seven minutes after timestamp t
.The only bus departures that matter are the listed bus IDs at their specific offsets from t
. Those bus IDs can depart at other times, and other bus IDs can depart at those times. For example, in the list above, because bus ID 19
must depart seven minutes after the timestamp at which bus ID 7
departs, bus ID 7
will always also be departing with bus ID 19
at seven minutes after timestamp t
.
In this example, the earliest timestamp at which this occurs is 1068781
:
time bus 7 bus 13 bus 59 bus 31 bus 19
1068773 . . . . .
1068774 D . . . .
1068775 . . . . .
1068776 . . . . .
1068777 . . . . .
1068778 . . . . .
1068779 . . . . .
1068780 . . . . .
1068781 D . . . .
1068782 . D . . .
1068783 . . . . .
1068784 . . . . .
1068785 . . D . .
1068786 . . . . .
1068787 . . . D .
1068788 D . . . D
1068789 . . . . .
1068790 . . . . .
1068791 . . . . .
1068792 . . . . .
1068793 . . . . .
1068794 . . . . .
1068795 D D . . .
1068796 . . . . .
1068797 . . . . .
In the above example, bus ID 7
departs at timestamp 1068788
(seven minutes after t
). This is fine; the only requirement on that minute is that bus ID 19
departs then, and it does.
Here are some other examples:
17,x,13,19
is 3417
.67,7,59,61
first occurs at timestamp 754018
.67,x,7,59,61
first occurs at timestamp 779210
.67,7,x,59,61
first occurs at timestamp 1261476
.1789,37,47,1889
first occurs at timestamp 1202161486
.However, with so many bus IDs in your list, surely the actual earliest timestamp will be larger than 100000000000000
!
What is the earliest timestamp such that all of the listed bus IDs depart at offsets matching their positions in the list? Determine this in the following way:
departure
that takes the bus IDs that are in service according to the shuttle company (char*
). The function must return the earliest timestamp (int
) such that all of the listed bus IDs depart at offsets matching their positions in the list.> earliest_timestamp("7,13,x,x,59,x,31,19")
1068781
> earliest_timestamp("17,x,13,19")
3417
> earliest_timestamp("67,7,59,61")
754018
> earliest_timestamp("67,x,7,59,61")
779210
> earliest_timestamp("67,7,x,59,61")
1261476
> earliest_timestamp("1789,37,47,1889")
1202161486