Dsa
Union Find
Medium
Classroom Seat Allocation
A school needs to allocate seats for students in classrooms based on mutual friendships. Each classroom can accommodate multiple groups of friends. If a student is friends with another, they must sit in the same classroom.
Input Format:
The first line contains an integer n, the number of students (1 ≤ n ≤ 500).
The next line contains an integer m, the number of friendship pairs (0 ≤ m ≤ 2000).
The following m lines each contain two integers a and b, indicating that student a is friends with student b.
Output Format:
Print the minimum number of classrooms needed such that all friends sit together.
Example:
Input:
4
3
1 2
2 3
4 1
Output:
2
Key concepts
union_findclassroomsenrollment
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