Triangles (Bronze)
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Given up to 100 points, find the largest triangle with one horizontal and one vertical side, and print twice its area.
- Level
Easy3 of 10
- Topics
- Brute force, Geometry, Implementation
- Solved
- No attempts yet
Problem
Farmer John would like to create a triangular pasture for his cows.
There are fence posts () at distinct points on the 2D map of his farm. He can choose three of them to form the vertices of the triangular pasture as long as one of the sides of the triangle is parallel to the -axis and another side is parallel to the -axis.
What is the maximum area of a pasture that Farmer John can form? It is guaranteed that at least one valid triangular pasture exists.
Input
The first line of the input contains the integer . Each of the next lines contains two integers and , each in the range inclusive, describing the location of a fence post.
Output
As the area itself is not necessarily an integer, output two times the maximum area of a valid triangle formed by the fence posts.
Hint
Posts at , , and form a triangle of area . Thus, the answer is . There is only one other triangle, with area .