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There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = int(input()) B,W = 0,0 s = input() ss = [] for i in range(0,len(s)): ss.append(s[i]) if(s[i] == 'B'): B = B + 1 else: W = W + 1 # print(B,W) if(W % 2 == 1 and B % 2 == 1): print(-1) else: a = [] flag = 0 # print(len(s)) if(B % 2 == 0): flag = 1 elif(W % 2 == 0): flag = 2 for i...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { int n; cin >> n; string s; cin >> s; int b = 0, w = 0; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { if (s[i] == 'W') w++; else b++; } if (b % 2 == 1 && w % 2 == 1) { cout << "-1"; return 0; } vector<int> v; if (b % 2 == 1) { ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
# code by RAJ BHAVSAR n = int(input()) s = list(str(input())) temp = s[:] ans = [] for i in range(n-1): if(s[i] == 'B'): ans.append(i+1) s[i] = 'W' s[i+1] = 'W' if s[i+1] == 'B' else 'B' if(len(set(s)) == 1): print(len(ans)) print(*ans) else: ans = [] for i in range(n-1): if(temp[i] == 'W'): ans.append(...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; void resolve() { int n; string s; cin >> n >> s; int w = 0, b = 0; for (int i = 0; i < s.size(); i++) w += (s[i] == 'W'), b += (s[i] == 'B'); if (w == 0 || b == 0) cout << 0; else if (w % 2 == 1 && b % 2 == 1) cout << -1; else { vector<int> ans; ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.io.*; import java.util.*; public class blocks { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); int n = Integer.parseInt(in.readLine()); String blockString = in.readLine(); char[] block...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
def affichage(L): for i in range(len(L)): L[i]=str(L[i]) return(' '.join(L)) def executeB(L,n): L2=[] for i in range(n): if L[i]!='B': L[i]='W' if L[i+1]=='B': ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { int n; cin >> n; string s; cin >> s; vector<int> v; int b = count(s.begin(), s.end(), 'B'); int w = count(s.begin(), s.end(), 'W'); if (b % 2 == 1 && w % 2 == 1) { cout << "-1"; return 0; } if (b % 2 == 0) { for (int i = 0; i < (...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from collections import defaultdict from math import factorial as f from fractions import gcd as g n = int (raw_input ()) s = raw_input () l = [] w, b = 0, 0 result = [] for i in s: if i == "B": l.append(0) b += 1 else: l.append(1) ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.io.*; import java.math.*; import java.util.*; import java.util.stream.*; import java.lang.management.*; import static java.lang.Math.*; @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public class P1271B { int n, k; StringBuilder ans; void change(char [] s, char c) { k = 0; ans = new StringBuilder(); f...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> #pragma GCC optimize("O2") using namespace std; const long long INF = 1e15 + 7; const long long N = 2e5 + 10; const long long mod = 998244353; long long pow(long long x, long long y) { long long res = 1; while (y > (long long)0) { if (y & (long long)1) res = ((res) * (x)); y = y >> ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> char S[210]; int b = 0, w = 0, pos[210], tot = 0; int main() { int n, i, k; scanf("%d%s", &n, S + 1); for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) if (S[i] == 'B') b++; else if (S[i] == 'W') w++; if (b == 0 || w == 0) { printf("0\n"); return 0; } else if ((b % 2) && (w % 2)) {...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.StringTokenizer; /* * To change this license header, choose License Headers in Project Properties. * To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates * and open the templa...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import math from collections import defaultdict ml=lambda:map(int,input().split()) ll=lambda:list(map(int,input().split())) ii=lambda:int(input()) ip=lambda:input() mod=1e9+7 """========main code===============""" t=1 #t=ii() for _ in range(t): n=ii() s=ip() a=s.count('B') b=s.count('W') k='N' i...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int32_t main() { vector<long long> ans; long long n; cin >> n; string a, b; cin >> a; b = a; for (long long i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) { if (b[i] == 'W') { ans.push_back(i + 1); b[i] = 'B'; if (b[i + 1] == 'W') b[i + 1] = 'B'; e...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { long long n, z = 0, o = 0; cin >> n; char x; vector<long long> v(n); for (long long i = 0; i < n; i++) { cin >> x; if (x == 'B') { v[i] = 0; z++; } if (x == 'W') { v[i] = 1; o++; } } if (z == 0 || o == 0...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; long long int INF = 1e18; const long long fact_table = 5000000; double Pi = 3.1415926535897932384626; vector<long long> G[550010]; vector<pair<long long, double> > tree[500010]; priority_queue<long long> pql; priority_queue<pair<long long, long long> > pqp; priority_queue<l...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n=int(input()) s=list(input()) i=0; ans=[]; ss=s.copy() while i<n-1: if s[i]=='B': s[i]='W' s[i+1]='B' if s[i+1]=='W' else 'W' ans.append(i+1) i+=1 if s.count('B')==0: print(len(ans)) print(*ans) else: i=0; ans=[]; s=ss while i<n-1: if s[i]=='W': s[i]=...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
def invert(c): if c=='W': return 'B' return 'W' def solve(): n = int(input()) s = list(input()) w = s.count('W') b = s.count('B') if w%2!=0 and b%2!=0: print(-1) return if b%2==1: ch = 'B' else: ch = 'W' ans = [] for i in range(len(s)-1...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
/* package codechef; // don't place package name! */ import java.util.*; import java.lang.*; import java.io.*; /* Name of the class has to be "Main" only if the class is public. */ public class Main { public static void main (String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception { // your code goes here Scanner s = new Sca...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.io.BufferedWriter; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.OutputStream; import java.io.OutputStreamWriter; import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.io.Writer; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.InputMismatchException; import java.util.*; import java.io.*; import java.ma...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.io.OutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.OutputStream; import java.util.Arrays; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.UncheckedIOException; import java.io.Closeable; import java.io.Writer; import java.io.OutputStreamWriter; import java.io.InputStream; /**...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
/* If you want to aim high, aim high Don't let that studying and grades consume you Just live life young ****************************** If I'm the sun, you're the moon Because when I go up, you go down ******************************* I'm working for the day I will surpass you **************************************** *...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; void boost() { ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0); cin.tie(0), cout.tie(0); } int main() { boost(); int n; string s; cin >> n >> s; vector<int> ans; for (int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) { if (s[i] == 'W') { s[i] = 'B'; if (s[i + 1] == 'W') { s[i...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int check(int* a, int n) { for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) if (a[i] == 0) return i; return -1; } int main() { int n; cin >> n; string s; cin >> s; int one = 0, zer = 0; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) if (s[i] == 'W') one++; else zer++; if ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.OutputStream; import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.math.BigInteger; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.InputMismatchException; /** * @author Mubtasim Shahriar */ public class Blocks { public static void ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import sys def Solve(): N = int(sys.stdin.readline()) S = sys.stdin.readline().rstrip() S = [0 if a == 'B' else 1 for a in S] ops = [] def Op(i): S[i + 1] = S[i + 1] ^ 1 S[i] = S[i] ^ 1 ops.append(i) for i in range(0, N - 1): if S[i]: Op(i) if S[-1]: ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int countColor(string s, char c) { int ans = 0; for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) { if (s[i] == c) { ans++; } } return ans; } void change(char& c) { if (c == 'W') { c = 'B'; } else { c = 'W'; } } void solve(string s, char c, vector<int...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = int(input()) s = input() s = [0 if ss=='W' else 1 for ss in s] target = sum(s)%2 count = 0 answer = [] for i in range(len(s)-1): if s[i] != target: count += 1 answer.append(i+1) s[i+1] = 1 - s[i+1] if s[-1]!=target: print(-1) else: print (count) print (" ".join(map(str,an...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import sys inf = float("inf") # sys.setrecursionlimit(10000000) # abc='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' # abd={'a': 0, 'b': 1, 'c': 2, 'd': 3, 'e': 4, 'f': 5, 'g': 6, 'h': 7, 'i': 8, 'j': 9, 'k': 10, 'l': 11, 'm': 12, 'n': 13, 'o': 14, 'p': 15, 'q': 16, 'r': 17, 's': 18, 't': 19, 'u': 20, 'v': 21, 'w': 22, 'x': 23, 'y': 2...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = int(input()) arr = list(input()) n1 = 0 n2 = 0 for i in arr: if i=='W': n1 += 1 else: n2 += 1 if (n1*n2)%2==1: print(-1) elif arr == [arr[0]]*n: print(0) else: ans = [] i = 0 while arr[i]=='W': i += 1 while i<n-1: if arr[i]==...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
def main(): n=int(input()) l=list(input()) b=l.count('W') val=[] if ('B' not in(l))or('W' not in(l)): print(0) elif n%2==0 and b%2==1: print(-1) else: if n%2==0: for i in range(1,n-1): if l[i-1]!=l[i]: l[i]=l[i-1] ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = int(input()) s = list(input()) b = 0 w = 0 for x in s: if x == 'W': w += 1 else: b += 1 if b % 2 and w % 2: print(-1) exit() if b % 2: c = 'B' c1 = 'W' else: c = 'W' c1 = 'B' #c1 is W and c is B a = [] for i in range(n - 1): if s[i] == s[i + 1] == c1: s[i]...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; const int maxn = 1e5 + 5; string s; int a[maxn], tot, n; int main() { while (cin >> n) { memset(a, 0, sizeof a); tot = 0; cin >> s; string temp = s; if (n == 1) { puts("0"); continue; } for (int i = n - 1; i >= 1; i--) { if (s...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int debug = 1; int test = 1; long double pi = 3.14159265358979323846; inline long long int min2(long long a, long long b) { if (a < b) { return a; } return b; } inline long long max3(long long a, long long b, long long c) { return (a) > (b) ? ((a) > (c) ? (a) : ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { int n; string s; cin >> n; cin >> s; int c = 0, b = 0, w = 0, i; vector<int> v; for (i = 0; i < n; i = i + 1) { if (s[i] == 'B') b = b + 1; else if (s[i] == 'W') w = w + 1; } if (b % 2 != 0 && w % 2 != 0) { cout << "-1"...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.io.BufferedReader; //import java.io.CharConversionException; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; //import java.util.Comparator; //import java.util.Deque; import java.math.BigInteger; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.HashMap; import javafx.beans.binding.StringBinding; /...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
# B. Suits # Link https://codeforces.com/contest/1271/problem/B n = int(input()) a = list(input()) w = 0 b = 0 for it in a: if it == 'W': w+=1 else: b+=1 x = 'W' y = 'B' if(w%2 == 1 and b % 2 == 1): print(-1) else: if(b % 2 == 1): x = 'B' y = 'W' ans = [] fo...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.io.OutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.OutputStream; import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.io.BufferedWriter; import java.util.InputMismatchException; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import java.io.Writer; impo...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = int(input()) s = input() L = [] n_B = 0 n_W = 0 ans = [] for c in s: if c == 'W': n_W += 1 x = 1 else: n_B += 1 x = 0 L.append(x) is_possible = True if n_B % 2 and n_W % 2: is_possible = False if n_W == 0 or n_B == 0: print(0) elif is_possible: for i in range...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; long long powmod(long long a, long long b, long long mod) { if (b == 0 || a == 1) { if (mod == 1) return 0; else return 1; } if (b % 2 == 0) { long long k = powmod(a, b / 2, mod); return (k * k) % mod; } else { long long k = powmod(a,...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n=int(input()) s=input() b=[] for j in s: b.append(j) res=[] j=0 while(j<n-1): if b[j]=="B" and b[j+1]=="W": b[j],b[j+1]=b[j+1],b[j] res.append(j+1) j+=1 elif b[j]=="B" and b[j+1]=="B": b[j]="W" b[j+1]="W" res.append(j+1) j+=2 else: j+=1 if...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
a=int(input()) b=list(input()) n=0 n1=[] z=b[:] e=b for i in range(len(b)-1): if(b[i]=='W'): b[i]='B' if(b[i+1]=='W'): b[i+1]='B' else: b[i+1]='W' n+=1 n1.append(i+1) if(b.count('W')!=a and b.count('B')!=a): e=b[:] for i in range(len(b)-1): if(b[i]=='B'): b[i]='W' if(b[i+1]=='B'): b[i+1]=...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = int(input()) s = list(input()) blacks = s.count('B') whites = n - blacks operations = [] if( blacks&1== whites&1 ==1): print(-1) exit() elif( blacks&1==1): i=0 while(i<n): if(s[i]=='W'): operations.append(i+1) s[i]='B' if(i+1< n): i...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int n; string s; bool inc[205]; vector<int> ans; int main() { cin >> n; cin >> s; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { if ('B' == s[i]) { inc[i + 1] = 1; } else inc[i + 1] = 0; } bool cop[205]; for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) cop[i] = inc[i]; for (in...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.util.*; import java.math.BigInteger; public class asd {static Scanner s=new Scanner(System.in); public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { int t=1; while(t-->0) { solve(); } } ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
/** * BaZ :D */ import java.util.*; import java.io.*; import static java.lang.Math.*; public class Main { static MyScanner scan; static PrintWriter pw; static long MOD = 1_000_000_007; static long INF = 1_000_000_000_000_000_000L; static long inf = 2_000_000_000; public static void main(Stri...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; class BBlocks { public: void solve(std::istream &in, std::ostream &out) { string s; in >> s >> s; string x = "BW"; for (auto y : x) { vector<int> answer; int n = s.length(); string t = s; for (int i = 0; i + 1 < n; ++i) { i...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n=int(input()) s=list(input()) c1=s.count('B') c2=s.count('W') if c1%2==1 and c2%2==1: print(-1) else: x='W' if c2%2==0 else 'B' q=0 c=0 a=[] for i in range(n): if s[i]==x and q==0 or s[i]!=x and q==1: q=1 c+=1 a.append(i+1) else: q...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import sys #input = sys.stdin.buffer.readline n = int(input()) s = list(map(lambda x: 0 if x == 'B' else 1,list(input().strip()))) def flip(index): if s[index] == 0:s[index] = 1 else:s[index] = 0 out = [] for i in range(1,len(s)-1): if s[i] == s[0]:continue flip(i); flip(i+1) out.append(i + 1) if ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { int n, w = 0, b = 0; char s[205]; vector<int> v; scanf("%d %s", &n, s); for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { if (s[i] == 'W') w++; else b++; } if (w % 2 == 0) { for (int i = n - 1; i > 0; i--) if (s[i] == 'W') { v.pu...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import org.omg.CORBA.INTERNAL; import sun.awt.image.ImageWatched; import sun.reflect.generics.tree.Tree; import java.nio.channels.ScatteringByteChannel; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.*; public final class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner s = new Scanner(Syst...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { long long int n; cin >> n; string str; cin >> str; int b = 0, w = 0; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { if (str[i] == 'W') { w++; } else { b++; } } if (w % 2 != 0 && b % 2 != 0) { cout << "-1"; } else if (w == 0 || b == ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.util.*; import java.io.*; public class File { public static class FastScanner { BufferedReader br; StringTokenizer st; public FastScanner() { br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); } String next() { while (st == null || !st.hasMoreElements()) { try { st ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { vector<int> a; int n, i, b = 0, w = 0; scanf("%d", &n); char c[n]; scanf("%s", c); for (i = 0; i < n; ++i) { if (c[i] == 'B') ++b; if (c[i] == 'W') ++w; } if (b == 0 || w == 0) { printf("0"); return 0; } if (b % 2 == 1 && w %...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.util.Scanner; public class BAy { public static void main(String[] args) { int num; String s; Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in); num=scan.nextInt(); s=scan.next(); char[] s1 = s.toCharArray(); char[] s2 = s.toCharArray(); int dex=0; int arr[] = new int[num]; for(int i=0;i<num-1;i++){ ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int n; string s, t; vector<int> ans; int main() { ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0), cin.tie(0); cin >> n; cin >> s; t = s; for (int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) { if (s[i] == 'W') { s[i] = 'B'; if (s[i + 1] == 'B') s[i + 1] = 'W'; else ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; long long powm(long long base, long long exp, long long mod = 1000000007) { long long ans = 1; while (exp) { if (exp & 1) ans = (ans * base) % mod; exp >>= 1, base = (base * base) % mod; } return ans; } int32_t main() { long long n; cin >> n; string s;...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = int(input()) s = [int(i=="B") for i in input()] b = sum(s) w = n-b if w*b == 0: print(0) elif w%2 and b%2: print(-1) else: target = 1 if b%2==0 else 0 ans = [] for i in range(n-1): if s[i] == target: ans.append(i+1) s[i+1] ^= 1 print(len(ans)) print(*ans)
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import sys n=int(sys.stdin.readline()) s=sys.stdin.readline().strip() a=[] for x in range(n): a.append(s[x]) steps=[] ans="YES" for i in range(n-1): if(a[i]=="B"): a[i]="W" if(a[i+1]=="B"): a[i+1]="W" else: a[i+1]="B" steps.append(str(i+1)) cont=0 for p in range(n): if(a[p]=="B"): co...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.StringTokenizer; public class Blocks { static class FastReader { BufferedReader br; StringTokenizer st; public FastReader() { br =...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n=int(input()) s=input() arr=[x for x in s] B=arr.count('B') W=arr.count('W') if not B or not W: print(0) else: if B&1 and W&1: print(-1) else: ans=[] if B%2==0: for x in range(n-1): if arr[x]=='B': if arr[x+1]=='B': ans.append(x) arr[x]='W' arr[x+1]='W' else: ans.appen...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n=int(input()) l=list(input()) z='W' ans=[] for i in range(n-1): if l[i]!=z: l[i]=z l[i+1]='W' if l[i+1]=='B' else 'B' ans.append(i+1) if l!=['W']*n: z='B' for i in range(n-1): if l[i]!=z: l[i]=z l[i+1]='W' if l[i+1]=='B' else 'B' ans.appen...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { int n; cin >> n; string s, s1; int count = 0, count1 = 0; vector<int> v, v1; cin.ignore(255, '\n'); getline(cin, s); s1 = s; for (int i = 0; i < s.size() - 1; i++) { if (s[i] == 'B') { s[i] = 'W'; s[i + 1] == 'W' ? s[i + 1] = '...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = input() s = raw_input() b = s.count('B') w = n - b if w == 0 or b == 0: print 0 else: ans = [] t = s[0] flag = 0 for i in range(n - 1): if (s[i] != t and not flag) or (s[i] == t and flag): ans.append(i + 1) flag = 1 else: flag = 0 if (s[n -...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { int n, i, j, a[1000]; string s; cin >> n; cin >> s; j = 0; for (i = 0; i < n; ++i) { if (s[i] == 'B') j++; } if (n % 2 == 0) { if (j % 2 == 1) { cout << -1; return 0; } } int ans = 0; int num = 0; if (j % 2 == 0) ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
from collections import Counter n = int(input()) s = input() rr = None for x in "BW": res = [] toggle = False for i, v in enumerate(s): if v == x: toggle = not toggle if toggle: res.append(i+1) if not toggle and (rr is None or len(res) < len(rr)): rr = res...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; const long long MOD = 1e9 + 7; void solve() { long long n; cin >> n; string s; cin >> s; long long x = 0; vector<long long> ans; for (auto &ch : s) { if (ch == 'B') x++; } if (x == 0 || x == n) { cout << 0; return; } else if ((x & 1) && ((n -...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = int(input()) s = list(input()) k = sum([1 for i in s if i == "B"]) if(n % 2 == 0 and k % 2 == 1): print(-1) else: color = s[0] if n % 2 == 0 else ("B" if k % 2 == 1 else "W") moves = [] for i in range(n): if(s[i] == color): continue else: moves.append(str(i...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import os, sys, math import collections if os.path.exists('testing'): name = os.path.basename(__file__) if name.endswith('.py'): name = name[:-3] src = open(name + '.txt', encoding='utf8') input = src.readline def solve(): result = [] data = [ 1 if q == 'W' else 0 for q in n ] count = 0 for x in range(len(d...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n=int(input()) L=input() c1="W" c2="B" WC=L.count(c1) BC=L.count(c2) s=[x for x in L] if WC%2==1 and BC%2==1: print(-1) exit() if WC==n or BC==n: print(0) exit() count1=[] if WC%2==1 and BC%2==0: for i in range(len(s)-1): if s[i]==c2: count1.append(i+1) s...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.FileReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.StringTokenizer; public class Q2 { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { // ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = int(input()) s = list(input()) out = [] if s.count("B") == n or s.count("W") == n: print (0) exit() for i in range(n-1): #Bにする if s[i] == "W": s[i] = "B" out.append(i+1) if s[i+1] == "B": s[i+1] = "W" else: s[i+1] = "B" if s.count("B") == n: print (len(out)) print (" ".join(map(str,out))) exit(...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
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There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { ios::sync_with_stdio(0); cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0); string s; int n; cin >> n; cin >> s; for (auto &c : s) c = (c == 'B') ? 1 : 0; for (int col = 0; col < 2; col++) { string t = s; vector<int> ans; for (int i = 0; i + 1 < n; i++) { ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = int(input()) s = list(input()) cnt_b = 0 cnt_w = 0 for i in range(n): if s[i] == "B": cnt_b += 1 if s[i] == "W": cnt_w += 1 if cnt_b % 2 == 1 and cnt_w % 2 == 1: print(-1) exit() if cnt_b % 2 == 0: num = 0 ans = [] for i in range(n): if s[i] == "B": ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import static java.lang.Integer.parseInt; import static java.lang.Long.parseLong; import static java.lang.Short.parseShort; import static java.lang.Byte.parseByte; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.lang.reflect.Array; imp...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import java.util.Scanner; import java.util.StringTokenizer; public class Main { public static int check(char[] ch) { int B = 0, W = 0; for (int i = 0; i <...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.StringTokenizer; public class CF1271B { static class Pair{ int a; int b; Pair(int a,int b){ this.a = a; this.b = b; } }...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.io.OutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.io.FilterInputStream; import java.io.BufferedInputStream; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.io.InputStream; /** * Built using CHelper plug-in * Actual solution is at the top */ public c...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { int n, i; cin >> n; string s; cin >> s; vector<int> ans; for (i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) { if (s[i] == 'W') { ans.push_back(i); s[i + 1] = (s[i + 1] == 'W' ? 'B' : 'W'); } } if (s[n - 1] == 'B') { cout << ans.size() << endl; ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
from itertools import product n=int(input()) s=list(input()) d={'B':0,'W':1} c1,c2=0,0 for i in range(len(s)): if s[i]=='B':c1+=1 else:c2+=1 s[i]=d[s[i]] ans=[] if c1&1 and c2&1: print(-1) else: for i in reversed(range(1,len(s)-1)): if s[i]!=s[i+1]: s[i]^=1 s[i-1]^=1...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
N = int(input()) S_raw = input() S = [0] * N for i in range(N): if S_raw[i] == 'B': S[i] = 1 S_ori = S[:] ans = [] for i in range(N-1): if S[i] == 1: S[i] = 0 S[i+1] = 1 - abs(S[i+1]) ans.append(i+1) if S[-1] == 0: print(len(ans)) print(*ans) exit() S = S_ori[:] an...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = int(input()) k = list(input()) b = k.count('B') t = n-b count = 0 a=[] if(b%2 != 0 and t%2!=0): print(-1) elif(b==0 or t==0): print(0) else: c="" q = 1 if(b%(1+1)==0): while q<n: if(k[q] == 'B' and k[q-1]=='B'): k[q] = k[q-1] = 'W' ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.util.*; public class Hello { public static long primeFactors(int n) { long c = 0; // Print the number of 2s that divide n while (n % 2 == 0) { c++; n /= 2; } // n must be odd at this point...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.util.*; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner sc=new Scanner(System.in); int n=sc.nextInt(); char[] arr=sc.next().toCharArray(); int w=0,b=0; for(int i=0;i<n;i++) { if(arr[i]=='B') b++; else w++; } if(w%2==1&&b%2==1) System.out.printl...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = int(input()) l = input() s = [l[i:i+1] for i in range(len(l))] path = [] temp = 'B' for i in range(len(s)): if i<n-1: if s[i]!=temp: path.append(i) if s[i+1]!=temp: s[i+1] = temp else: s[i+1] = 'W' s[i] = temp flag = 0 for i...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; void solve() { long long int n; cin >> n; string s, t; cin >> s; t = s; vector<long long int> ans; for (__typeof(n - 1) i = (0) - ((0) > (n - 1)); i != (n - 1) - ((0) > (n - 1)); i += 1 - 2 * ((0) > (n - 1))) { if (t[i] != 'B') { t[i] = 'B'; ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> const long long LL_INF = (long long)2e18 + 5; using namespace std; vector<long long> stone; long long pow_of_10(long long x) { long long result = 1; for (long long i = 1; i < x + 1; i++) { result *= 10; } return result; } long long c; long long gcd(long long a, long long b) { if (...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.util.*; public class Codeforces { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner s = new Scanner(System. in); // int t = 1; // while(t>0) { int n=s.nextInt(); String st=s.next(); char a[]=st.toCharArray(); ArrayList<Integer> a1=new ArrayList<>(); for(int i=0;i<n-1;i++){ ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
def main(): nos = int(input()) p = input() pattern = list(p) bcount = pattern.count('B') wcount = pattern.count('W') if bcount%2 != 0 and wcount%2 != 0: print(-1) return 0 count = 0 steps = [] if bcount%2 == 0: i = 0 while i< len(pattern)-1 : ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; void solve() { int i, n, cnt = 0; cin >> n; string s; cin >> s; vector<int> ans; for (i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) { if (s[i] == 'B') { s[i] = 'W'; s[i + 1] == 'W' ? (s[i + 1] = 'B') : (s[i + 1] = 'W'); cnt++; ans.push_back(i + 1); } el...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = int(input()) blocks = str(input()) count_b = sum([1 for i in blocks if i == 'B']) count_w = sum([1 for i in blocks if i == 'W']) if count_b % 2 != 0 and count_w % 2 != 0: print(-1) elif count_b == 0 or count_w == 0: print(0) else: ans = [] blocks = list(blocks) blocks += '1' while count_w > ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
# ========= /\ /| |====/| # | / \ | | / | # | /____\ | | / | # | / \ | | / | # ========= / \ ===== |/====| # code def main(): n = int(input()) sa = input() s = list(sa) # print(s) if len(set(s)) == 1: ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
t=int(input()) l=list(input()) B=l.count('B') W=l.count('W') ll=[] c=l.copy() if t%2==0: if B%2!=0 or W%2!=0: print("-1") else: ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false); cin.tie(NULL); int a; cin >> a; string s; cin >> s; int len = s.size(); vector<int> v; int countb = 0; for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) { if (s[i] == 'B') { countb++; } } int countw = len - co...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { int n; cin >> n; string block; cin >> block; int b = 0, w = 0; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { b += block[i] == 'B'; w += block[i] == 'W'; } if (b % 2 && w % 2) { cout << -1; } else { char change = 'B', to = 'W'; if (b % 2) {...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { int n; cin >> n; string s; cin >> s; string choices = "BW"; for (int c = 0; c < 2; c++) { string s2 = s; vector<int> res; for (int c2 = 1; c2 < s2.size(); c2++) { if (s2[c2 - 1] != choices[c]) { s2[c2 - 1] = choices[c]; ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
n = int(input()) string = input() sequence = [0] * n for i in range(n): if string[i] == 'B': sequence[i] = -1 else: sequence[i] = 1 def Try(char, seq): commands = [] count = 0 for i in range(n-1): if seq[i] != char: seq[i] = char seq[i+1] *= -1 commands.append(i+1) count += 1 if seq[-1] !=...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Scanner; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); int n = sc.nextInt(); char[] a1 = sc.next().substring(0, n).toCharArray(); char[] c = {'B', 'W'}; char[] a2; int k; ...
There are n blocks arranged in a row and numbered from left to right, starting from one. Each block is either black or white. You may perform the following operation zero or more times: choose two adjacent blocks and invert their colors (white block becomes black, and vice versa). You want to find a sequence of ope...
#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; int main() { int n; cin >> n; string s; cin >> s; int w = 0, b = 0, k = 0, i, j, d = 0; vector<int> v; char a; for (i = 0; i < s.size(); i++) { if (s[i] == 'W') w++; else b++; } if (w % 2 != 0 && b % 2 != 0) cout << -1 << endl; ...