POJ 3258 River Hopscotch

Every year the cows hold an event featuring a peculiar version of hopscotch that involves carefully jumping from rock to rock in a river. The excitement takes place on a long, straight river with a rock at the start and another rock at the end, L units away from the start (1 ≤ L ≤ 1,000,000,000). Along the river between the starting and ending rocks, N (0 ≤ N ≤ 50,000) more rocks appear, each at an integral distance D_i from the start (0 < D_i < L).

To play the game, each cow in turn starts at the starting rock and tries to reach the finish at the ending rock, jumping only from rock to rock. Of course, less agile cows never make it to the final rock, ending up instead in the river.

Farmer John is proud of his cows and watches this event each year. But as time goes by, he tires of watching the timid cows of the other farmers limp across the short distances between rocks placed too closely together. He plans to remove several rocks in order to increase the shortest distance a cow will have to jump to reach the end. He knows he cannot remove the starting and ending rocks, but he calculates that he has enough resources to remove up to M rocks (0 ≤ M ≤ N).

FJ wants to know exactly how much he can increase the shortest distance *before* he starts removing the rocks. Help Farmer John determine the greatest possible shortest distance a cow has to jump after removing the optimal set of Mrocks.

#include <cstdio>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;
const int maxn=50010;
int a[maxn];
int b[maxn];
int main()
{
    int i,l,n,m,t,num,ans=0;
    int high,low,mid;
    scanf("%d%d%d",&l,&n,&m);
    for(i=0;i<n;i++)
        scanf("%d",&a[i]);
	sort(a,a+n);
    a[n++]=l;
    low=0;
    high=l;
    while(low<=high)
    {
        mid=(high+low)/2;
        b[0]=0;
        t=0,num=0;  //num为本次循环状态下移除石头的个数
        for(i=0;i<n;i++)
        {
            if(a[i]-b[t]<mid) //两石头之间距离小于mid，则中间石头可以移除
                num++;
            else
                b[++t]=a[i];  
        }
        if(num<=m)  //mid值要尽量大
		{
            low=mid+1;
			ans=mid;
		}
        else
            high=mid-1;
    }
    printf("%d\n", ans);
    return 0;
}