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Language: Little guys' game
Description Here is game played by little guys. There is a 4 * 4 square, and the square is filled with the characters 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'D'. Each kind of character appears exactly 4 times. You can arbitrarily swap two adjacent characters (horizontal or vertical). At the beginning of the game you should choose a character (from 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'D') as you target character, when any 2 * 2 sub-square contains the same character as the character you have chosen before, you win the game.
These little guys want to use minimal times of swap to win the game. Now they turn to you. Can you help them? Input There are multiple test cases. Each contains a 4 * 4 square as the initial situation. Notice that the square only contains 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'D', and each kind of characters will appear exactly 4 times. Output You should output the minimal swap times to win the game, and you should also output how many kinds of strategies you can achieve the minimal swap times.
You should pay attention that if two strategies swap the characters in the same order but with the different target characters, these two strategies are still considered as different. Sample Input AABB ABAB CDCD CCDD ACAB CBBD ADAD DCBC Sample Output 1 4 4 96 Source POJ Monthly--2005.07.31, Huang Ninghai |
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