1014 Waiting in Line (30 分)
Suppose a bank has N windows open for service. There is a yellow line in front of the windows which devides the waiting area into two parts. The rules for the customers to wait in line are:
- The space inside the yellow line in front of each window is enough to contain a line with M customers. Hence when all the N lines are full, all the customers after (and including) the (N**M+1)st one will have to wait in a line behind the yellow line.
- Each customer will choose the shortest line to wait in when crossing the yellow line. If there are two or more lines with the same length, the customer will always choose the window with the smallest number.
- Customeri will take T**i minutes to have his/her transaction processed.
- The first N customers are assumed to be served at 8:00am.
Now given the processing time of each customer, you are supposed to tell the exact time at which a customer has his/her business done.
For example, suppose that a bank has 2 windows and each window may have 2 custmers waiting inside the yellow line. There are 5 customers waiting with transactions taking 1, 2, 6, 4 and 3 minutes, respectively. At 08:00 in the morning, custome**r1 is served at windo**w1 while custome**r2 is served at windo**w2. Custome**r3 will wait in front of windo**w1 and custome**r4 will wait in front of windo**w2. Custome**r5 will wait behind the yellow line.
At 08:01, custome**r1 is done and custome**r5 enters the line in front of windo**w1 since that line seems shorter now. Custome**r2 will leave at 08:02, custome**r4 at 08:06, custome**r3 at 08:07, and finally custome**r5 at 08:10.
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