#P3359. Wordfish
Wordfish
Description
You have been tasked to infiltrate a tight-lipped society for fun and profit: the ACM ICPC regional judges. Through the PC2 "submission" software, you know that classified information is accessible through the log-ins of the judges tasked to a particular "regional site". However, you are not certain that any particular judge has access to all the relevant information, so several log-ins will be required. You have been handed down a list of usernames, and the passwords used can be derived from these usernames, as follows:
Input
The input will only have capital letters (denoting the usernames) and carriage returns. Each line (thus each username) will not be longer than twenty characters, and there will not be more than 12 "judges" whose log-ins you will need to infiltrate. Strangely, no username uses any letter more than once.
Output
For each username, you must produce a line containing the password of length within 20 which that username uses. The password for a given username is determined from the twenty-one lexicographically consecutive permutations of the username, the eleventh (middle) of which is the username itself. For example, if the username is WORDFISH, the lexicographic permutations of WORDFISH contain, in order:
..., WOISHRFD, WOISRDFH, WOISRDHF, WOISRFDH, WOISRFHD, WOISRHDF, WOISRHFD, WORDFHIS, WORDFHSI, WORDFIHS, WORDFISH, WORDFSHI, WORDFSIH, WORDHFIS, WORDHFSI, WORDHIFS, WORDHISF, WORDHSFI, WORDHSIF, WORDIFHS, WORDIFSH, ...
The password is then the permutation among the twenty-one lexicographically consecutive permutations of the username which has the largest minimum absolute distance between consecutive letters (and the first amongst the lexicographically ordered, if several permutations have the largest minimum absolute distance), followed by that minimum absolute distance. For the username WORDFISH, the password is WORDHSFI3.
WORDFISH
WORDHSFI3
Source
Manila 2006