E. And Constraint
Problem Statement
You are given a sequence of length and a sequence of length .
You can perform the following operation any number of times (possibly zero):
- Choose an index and increment by 1 (i.e., set ).
Your goal is to perform the minimum number of operations such that for every , the condition holds, where denotes the bitwise AND operation. If it is impossible to satisfy the condition, report it as well.
Input
Each test contains multiple test cases. The first line contains the number of test cases (). The description of the test cases follows.
The first line contains a single integer ().
The second line contains integers ().
The third line contains integers ().
It is guaranteed that the sum of over all test cases does not exceed .
Output
For each test case, you need to output only one integer.
If the goal can be achieved, output one integer — the minimum number of operations required. Otherwise, output .
Solution
Key Observations
Necessary Condition Analysis
The problem requires that for all , which means that all bits of must be set in both and .
Since we also have , the bits of must be set in both and .
For to satisfy both conditions simultaneously, it must have all bits set in both and . Therefore, the minimum requirement is:
Note that and only need to satisfy one condition each.
Feasibility Check
This gives us a necessary condition: if we construct with and this doesn’t satisfy , then no valid solution exists (output -1).
Conversely, if satisfies the necessary condition and , then we can always find a valid that satisfies all constraints.
Optimized Dynamic Programming Solution
Problem Analysis
To find the minimum number of operations, we use dynamic programming since depends only on , , and .
The key insight is to determine which states of are useful for minimizing operations.
State Space Optimization
Consider the constraint that must contain all bits from . For any additional bits beyond this minimum requirement, we only need to consider a limited set of useful values.
For example, if , then must contain at least . For additional bits, we only consider values that follow a specific pattern to avoid redundant computation.
The key observation is that if we have a higher bit value that costs more operations to reach, and the lower bit value will not be needed, we should set all of them to 0 (check the code below to better understand this). This means we only need to consider approximately 30 possible values for each .
Implementation Details
We precompute useful bit patterns using:
const int HIGHEST = 0x00ffffffffffffff;
p[0] = make_pair(0xffffffffffff, 0);
p[1] = make_pair(0xfffffffffffe, 1);
for (int i = 2; i < 40; i++) {
p[i].first = p[i - 1].first << 1;
p[i].second = p[i - 1].second << 1;
p[i].first &= HIGHEST;
}For each position , we compute the target value as:
int target_val = (b[i] & bits.first) | bits.second | a[i] | a[i - 1];This formula ensures that:
- We preserve the necessary bits from
- We consider only the useful bit patterns from our precomputed set
- We maintain the minimum cost to reach each valid state
Time Complexity
The dynamic programming runs in time, where is the array length and is the number of useful bit patterns per position. This is efficient enough for the given constraints.