Build Post Office II

Given a 2D grid, each cell is either a wall 2, an house 1or empty 0 (the number zero, one, two), find a place to build a post office so that the sum of the distance from the post office to all the houses is smallest.

Return the smallest sum of distance. Return -1 if it is not possible.

Notice

  • You cannot pass through wall and house, but can pass through empty.

  • You only build post office on an empty.

Example

Given a grid:

0 1 0 0 0
1 0 0 2 1
0 1 0 0 0

return 8, You can build at (1,1). (Placing a post office at (1,1), the distance that post office to all the house sum is smallest.)

Challenge

Solve this problem within O(n^3) time.

分析

将数组扫描一遍找到所有房子。+

  1. 为每一个房子建立一个距离矩阵,计算该房子到所有0点的距离。即distance[i][j][k]为k房子到grid[i][j]上的点的距离。计算距离的时候用bfs搜索。

  2. 然后遍历图上所有为0的点,查询k张距离矩阵,将所有房子到该点的距离加起来即为在该点建邮局的距离总和。若在查询过程中遇到某个点在某张距离矩阵上的值为无穷大,则说明该点无法到达该房子,直接停止搜索即可。

  3. 选3中距离最小的点即可。

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