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Problem D
Jack Straws
In the game of Jack Straws, a number of plastic or wooden
"straws" are dumped on the table and players try to remove
them one-by-one without disturbing the other straws. Here, we are only
concerned with if various pairs of straws are connected by a path of
touching straws. You will be given a list of the endpoints for some
straws (as if they were dumped on a large piece of graph paper) and
then will be asked if various pairs of straws are connected. Note that
touching is connecting, but also two straws can be connected
indirectly via other connected straws.
Input
A problem consists of multiple lines of input. The first line will be
an integer n (1 < n < 13) giving the number of straws
on the table. Each of the next n lines contain 4 positive integers,
x1, y1, x2,
and y2, giving the coordinates,
(x1, y1) -
(x2, y2) of the endpoints of a
single straw. All coordinates will be less than 100. (Note that the
straws will be of varying lengths.) The first straw entered will be
known as straw #1, the second as straw #2, and so on. The remaining
lines of input (except for the final line) will each contain two
positive integers, a and b, both between 1 and
n, inclusive. You are to determine if straw a can be
connected to straw b. When a = 0 = b, the
input is terminated. There will be no illegal input and there are no
zero-length straws.
Output
You should generate a line of output for each line containing a pair
a and b, except the final line where a = 0
= b. The line should say simply
"CONNECTED
", if straw a is connected
to straw b, or "NOT CONNECTED
", if
straw a is not connected to straw b. For our
purposes, a straw is considered connected to itself.
Sample Input
7
1 6 3 3
4 6 4 9
4 5 6 7
1 4 3 5
3 5 5 5
5 2 6 3
5 4 7 2
1 4
1 6
3 3
6 7
2 3
1 3
0 0
Sample Output
CONNECTED
NOT CONNECTED
CONNECTED
CONNECTED
NOT CONNECTED
CONNECTED
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