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The fastfood chain McBurger owns several restaurants along a highway. Recently, they have decided to build several depots along the highway, each one located at a restaurent and supplying several of the restaurants with the needed ingredients. Naturally, these depots should be placed so that the average distance between a restaurant and its assigned depot is minimized. You are to write a program that computes the optimal positions and assignments of the depots.
To make this more precise, the management of McBurger has issued the following specification:
You will be given the positions of n restaurants along the highway as n
integers
(these are the distances measured from the
company's headquarter, which happens to be at the same highway). Furthermore,
a number
will be given, the number of depots to be built.
The k depots will be built at the locations of k different restaurants. Each restaurant will be assigned to the closest depot, from which it will then receive its supplies. To minimize shipping costs, the total distance sum, defined as
Write a program that computes the positions of the k depots, such that the total distance sum is minimized.
The input file will end with a case starting with n = k = 0. This case should not be processed.
Output a blank line after each test case.
6 3 5 6 12 19 20 27 0 0
Chain 1 Depot 1 at restaurant 2 serves restaurants 1 to 3 Depot 2 at restaurant 4 serves restaurants 4 to 5 Depot 3 at restaurant 6 serves restaurant 6 Total distance sum = 8