Wu XING

Description

Introduction

The Wu Xing, or the Five Movements, Five Phases or Five Steps/Stages, are chiefly an ancient mnemonic device, in many traditional Chinese fields.

The doctrine of five phases describes two cycles, a generating or creation cycle, also known as "mother-son", and an overcoming or destruction cycle, also known as "grandfather-nephew", of interactions between the phases.

Generating:

Overcoming:

• Wood parts Earth (such as roots) (or Trees can prevent soil erosion );
• Earth absorbs (or muddies) Water (or Earth dam control the water);
• Water quenches Fire;
• Fire melts Metal;
• Metal chops Wood.

With the two types of interactions in the above graph, any two nodes are connected by an edge.

Problem

In a graph with N nodes, to ensure that any two nodes are connected by at least one edge, how many types of interactions are required at least? Here a type of interaction should have the following properties:

• It can be represented as a set of directed edges in the graph.
• For each type of interaction, there should be one and only one edge starting at each node.
• For each type of interaction, there should be one and only one edge ending at each node.
• The interactions are made up of cycles, i.e. starting from an arbitrary node and following the edges with the same type of interaction, you can always reach the starting node after several steps.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
	int n;
	while(cin>>n&&n)
	{
		cout<<n/2<<endl;
	}
	return 0;
}

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原文：http://blog.csdn.net/a120705230/article/details/21989467