USACO Sec 1.1

sec 1.1 Broken Necklace

Broken Necklace

You have a necklace of N red, white, or blue beads (3<=N<=350) some of which are red, others blue, and others white, arranged at random. Here are two examples for n=29:

                1 2                               1 2
            r b b r                           b r r b
          r         b                       b         b
         r           r                     b           r
        r             r                   w             r
       b               r                 w               w
      b                 b               r                 r
      b                 b               b                 b
      b                 b               r                 b
       r               r                 b               r
        b             r                   r             r
         b           r                     r           r
           r       r                         r       b
             r b r                             r r w
            Figure A                         Figure B
                        r red bead
                        b blue bead
                        w white bead
The beads considered first and second in the text that follows have been marked in the picture.

The configuration in Figure A may be represented as a string of b's and r's, where b represents a blue bead and r represents a red one, as follows: brbrrrbbbrrrrrbrrbbrbbbbrrrrb .

Suppose you are to break the necklace at some point, lay it out straight, and then collect beads of the same color from one end until you reach a bead of a different color, and do the same for the other end (which might not be of the same color as the beads collected before this).

Determine the point where the necklace should be broken so that the most number of beads can be collected.

Example

For example, for the necklace in Figure A, 8 beads can be collected, with the breaking point either between bead 9 and bead 10 or else between bead 24 and bead 25.

In some necklaces, white beads had been included as shown in Figure B above. When collecting beads, a white bead that is encountered may be treated as either red or blue and then painted with the desired color. The string that represents this configuration can include any of the three symbols r, b and w.

Write a program to determine the largest number of beads that can be collected from a supplied necklace.

PROGRAM NAME: beads

INPUT FORMAT

Line 1:	N, the number of beads
Line 2:	a string of N characters, each of which is r, b, or w
SAMPLE INPUT (file beads.in)

29
wwwbbrwrbrbrrbrbrwrwwrbwrwrrb
OUTPUT FORMAT

A single line containing the maximum of number of beads that can be collected from the supplied necklace.
SAMPLE OUTPUT (file beads.out)

11
OUTPUT EXPLANATION

Consider two copies of the beads (kind of like being able to runaround the ends). The string of 11 is marked.
                Two necklace copies joined here
                             v
wwwbbrwrbrbrrbrbrwrwwrbwrwrrb|wwwbbrwrbrbrrbrbrwrwwrbwrwrrb
                       ******|*****
                       rrrrrb|bbbbb  <-- assignments
                   5xr .....#|#####  6xb

                        5+6 = 11 total

sec 1.2 transform

Transformations
A square pattern of size N x N (1 <= N <= 10) black and white square tiles is transformed into another square pattern. Write a program that will recognize the minimum transformation that has been applied to the original pattern given the following list of possible transformations:

#1: 90 Degree Rotation: The pattern was rotated clockwise 90 degrees.
#2: 180 Degree Rotation: The pattern was rotated clockwise 180 degrees.
#3: 270 Degree Rotation: The pattern was rotated clockwise 270 degrees.
#4: Reflection: The pattern was reflected horizontally (turned into a mirror image of itself by reflecting around a vertical line in the middle of the image).
#5: Combination: The pattern was reflected horizontally and then subjected to one of the rotations (#1-#3).
#6: No Change: The original pattern was not changed.
#7: Invalid Transformation: The new pattern was not obtained by any of the above methods.
In the case that more than one transform could have been used, choose the one with the minimum number above.

PROGRAM NAME: transform

INPUT FORMAT

Line 1:	A single integer, N
Line 2..N+1:	N lines of N characters (each either `@' or `-'); this is the square before transformation
Line N+2..2*N+1:	N lines of N characters (each either `@' or `-'); this is the square after transformation
SAMPLE INPUT (file transform.in)

3
@-@
---
@@-
@-@
@--
--@
OUTPUT FORMAT

A single line containing the the number from 1 through 7 (described above) that categorizes the transformation required to change from the `before' representation to the `after' representation.
SAMPLE OUTPUT (file transform.out)

1