- Time limit: 1.00 s
- Memory limit: 512 MB
Implement VByte encoding and decoding.
The binary needs to support the "-s" command line flag, that indicates that the input is sorted and differences between subsequent numbers should be stored instead of numbers themselves.
Input
A binary input stream, consisting of 64-bit unsigned integers. The first integer, n, is how many additional integers are in the input.
Output
After encoding the n integers, output to cerr
the number of blocks used to encode the input, after this, repeate back the input sequence.
Constraints
- n << 10^8
Example
Input:
2, 7, 500
(in 64-bit binary)
Output:
3, 7, 500
I.e. The number of blocks = 3, followed by the input integers 7 and 500.