#K46667. Minimum Cost to Paint Offices
Minimum Cost to Paint Offices
Minimum Cost to Paint Offices
You are given n offices in a row. Each office can be painted in one of three colors: red, green, or blue. The cost of painting the i-th office in red, green, or blue is given by \(costs[i][0]\), \(costs[i][1]\), and \(costs[i][2]\) respectively.
Your task is to paint all offices such that no two adjacent offices share the same color, while minimizing the total painting cost. Formally, if \(c_i\) represents the color chosen for the \(i\)-th office, the condition \(c_i \neq c_{i+1}\) must hold for all \(1 \leq i < n\).
It is guaranteed that \(0 \leq n \leq 10^5\) and all costs are non-negative integers.
inputFormat
The first line contains a single integer n indicating the number of offices. If n = 0, no further input follows.
Each of the following n lines contains three space-separated non-negative integers, representing the cost to paint the corresponding office in red, green, and blue respectively.
Input Example:
3 17 2 17 16 16 5 14 3 19
outputFormat
Print a single integer, the minimum total cost required to paint all offices under the given constraints.
Output Example:
10## sample
3
17 2 17
16 16 5
14 3 19
10