Problem 4: The Fence Builder
A fence builder has been
given a strange task. Provided with N
(between 3 and 100) pieces of straight fencing, each having an arbitrary
length, the builder is to enclose as large a region as possible. The customer wants to know the area of the
region that can be enclosed by the fence before it is built. There is only one constraint on the
construction: each piece of fencing is
connected only at its endpoints to exactly two other different pieces of
fencing. That is, after completion, the
fence will look like a (possibly irregular) polygon with N sides. The customer has guaranteed the builder that
the fencing provided will allow for a region with a non-zero area to be
enclosed.
Input
There will be multiple
cases in the input. For each case, the
input begins with the number of pieces of fencing (an integer, N).
There then follow N positive,
non-zero real numbers giving the lengths of the fence pieces. A single integer zero follows the last case
in the input.
Output
For each case, display the
case number (starting with 1) and the maximum area that can be enclosed by the
provided fencing materials. Show three
fractional digits in each answer. Use
the format shown below in displaying the results.
Sample Input
3 2.0
2.0 2.0
4 1.0
1.0 1.0 1.0
4 5.0
5.0 3.0 11.0
0
Expected Output
Case 1: maximum area = 1.732
Case 2: maximum area = 1.000
Case 3: maximum area = 21.000