# Codeforces - 1166A - Silent Classroom

## 地址

http://codeforces.com/contest/1166/problem/A

## 原文地址

https://www.lucien.ink/archives/430

## 题目

There are $n$ students in the first grade of Nlogonia high school. The principal wishes to split the students into two classrooms (each student must be in exactly one of the classrooms). Two distinct students whose name starts with the same letter will be chatty if they are put in the same classroom (because they must have a lot in common). Let $x$ be the number of such pairs of students in a split. Pairs $(a, b)$ and $(b, a)$ are the same and counted only once.

For example, if there are $6$ students: "olivia", "jacob", "tanya", "jack", "oliver" and "jessica", then:

You are given the list of the $n$ names. What is the minimum $x$ we can obtain by splitting the students into classrooms?

Note that it is valid to place all of the students in one of the classrooms, leaving the other one empty.

## 题解

### 代码

https://pasteme.cn/8170

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
std::map<char, int> map;
int main() {
int n;
char str[1007];
scanf("%d", &n);
while (n--) {
scanf("%s", str);
map[str[0]]++;
}
long long ans = 0;
for (auto it : map) {
int a = it.second / 2, b = it.second - a;
ans += a * (a - 1) / 2;
ans += b * (b - 1) / 2;
}
printf("%lld\n", ans);
return 0;
}