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Problems > Connecting Cities by Grid

Connecting Cities by Grid

Difficulty: 2400 6000 ms 128 MB

geometry greedy

N cities lie on a grid; the cost to link two cities is their Manhattan distance. Print the minimum spanning-tree cost.

Input: the first line has N; the next N lines have distinct points x y.

Output: the minimum total connection cost.

Constraints:

  • 1 ≤ N ≤ 103
  • |coordinates| ≤ 106

Sample Tests

Input 1
3
0 0
0 5
3 3
Output 1
10
Input 2
1
2 2
Output 2
0

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