[Solution] Sherlock and Parentheses Kick Start Solution
Sherlock and Watson have recently enrolled in a computer programming course. Today, the tutor taught them about the balanced parentheses problem. A string consisting only of characters (
and/or )
is balanced if:
- It is an empty string, or:
- It has the form
(
)
, where is a balanced string, or: - It has the form , where is a balanced string and is a balanced string.
Sherlock coded up the solution very quickly and started bragging about how good he is, so Watson gave him a problem to test his knowledge. He asked Sherlock to generate a string of `L + R` characters, in which there are a total of left parentheses (
and a total of right parentheses )
. Moreover, the string must have as many different balanced non-empty substrings as possible. (Two substrings are considered different as long as they start and end at different indexes of the string, even if their content happens to be the same). Note that itself does not have to be balanced.
Sherlock is sure that once he knows the maximum possible number of balanced non-empty
substrings, he will be able to solve the problem. Can you help him find that maximum number?
Input
The first line of the input gives the number of test cases, . test cases follow.
Each test case consists of one line with two integers: and .
Output
For each test case, output one line containing Case #:
, where is the test case number (starting from ) and is the answer, as described above.
Limits
Time limit: 20 seconds.
Memory limit: 1 GB.
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Test Set 1
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Test Set 2
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