Surmising a Sprinter's Speed
Time limit2sMemory limit512 MB
Given N observations of time and position on a line, find the largest speed the sprinter must have reached at some moment.
- Level
Medium6 of 10
- Topics
- Sorting, Math, Binary search, Greedy
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Problem
Trick E. Dingo is trying, as usual, to catch his nemesis the Street Sprinter. His past attempts using magnets, traps and explosives have failed miserably, so he's catching his breath to gather observational data and learn more about how fast Street Sprinter is.
Trick E. Dingo and Street Sprinter both inhabit a single straight west-east road with a particularly famous rock on it known affectionately as The Origin. Positions on this straight road are measured numerically according to the distance from The Origin, and using negative numbers for positions west of The Origin and positive numbers for positions east of The Origin.
The observations by Trick E. Dingo each contain two numbers: a time, and the value of Street Sprinter's position on the road at that time. Given this information, what speed must Street Sprinter be capable of?
Input
The first line contains a number , the number of observations that follow. The next lines each contain an integer indicating the time, in seconds, of when a measurement was made, and an integer indicating the position, in metres, of the Street Sprinter at that time. No two lines will have the same value of .
Output
Output a single number , such that we can conclude that Street Sprinter's speed was at least metres/second at some point in time, and such that is as large as possible. If the correct answer is , the grader will view as correct if .