Problem:
Score : 400 points

Problem Statement

Given is a tree G with N vertices.
The vertices are numbered 1 through N, and the i-th edge connects Vertex a_i and Vertex b_i.

Consider painting the edges in G with some number of colors.
We want to paint them so that, for each vertex, the colors of the edges incident to that vertex are all different.

Among the colorings satisfying the condition above, construct one that uses the minimum number of colors.

Constraints

2 \le N \le 10^5

1 \le a_i \lt b_i \le N

All values in input are integers.

The given graph is a tree.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N
a_1 b_1
a_2 b_2
\vdots
a_{N-1} b_{N-1}

Output

Print N lines.

The first line should contain K, the number of colors used.

The (i+1)-th line (1 \le i \le N-1) should contain c_i, the integer representing the color of the i-th edge, where 1 \le c_i \le K must hold.

If there are multiple colorings with the minimum number of colors that satisfy the condition, printing any of them will be accepted.

Sample Input 1

3
1 2
2 3

Sample Output 1

2
1
2

Sample Input 2

8
1 2
2 3
2 4
2 5
4 7
5 6
6 8

Sample Output 2

4
1
2
3
4
1
1
2

Sample Input 3

6
1 2
1 3
1 4
1 5
1 6

Sample Output 3

5
1
2
3
4
5

Solution in Java8 (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.math.*;
import java.lang.*;
 
import static java.lang.Math.*;

public class Main implements Runnable 
{
    static class InputReader 
    {
        private InputStream stream;
        private byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
        private int curChar;
        private int numChars;
        private SpaceCharFilter filter;
        private BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

        public InputReader(InputStream stream) 
        {
            this.stream = stream;
        }
        
        public int read()
        {
            if (numChars==-1) 
                throw new InputMismatchException();
            
            if (curChar >= numChars) 
            {
                curChar = 0;
                try
                {
                    numChars = stream.read(buf);
                }
                catch (IOException e)
                {
                    throw new InputMismatchException();
                }
                
                if(numChars <= 0)               
                    return -1;
            }
            return buf[curChar++];
        }
     
        public String nextLine()
        {
            String str = "";
            try
            {
                str = br.readLine();
            }
            catch (IOException e)
            {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return str;
        }
        public int nextInt() 
        {
            int c = read();
            
            while(isSpaceChar(c)) 
                c = read();
            
            int sgn = 1;
        
            if (c == '-') 
            {
                sgn = -1;
                c = read();
            }
            
            int res = 0;
            do
            {
                if(c<'0'||c>'9') 
                    throw new InputMismatchException();
                res *= 10;
                res += c - '0';
                c = read();
            }
            while (!isSpaceChar(c)); 
        
            return res * sgn;
        }
		
        public long nextLong() 
        {
            int c = read();
            while (isSpaceChar(c))
                c = read();
            int sgn = 1;
            if (c == '-')
            {
                sgn = -1;
                c = read();
            }
            long res = 0;
            
            do 
            {
                if (c < '0' || c > '9')
                    throw new InputMismatchException();
                res *= 10;
                res += c - '0';
                c = read();
            }
            while (!isSpaceChar(c));
                return res * sgn;
        }
		
        public double nextDouble() 
        {
            int c = read();
            while (isSpaceChar(c))
                c = read();
            int sgn = 1;
            if (c == '-')
            {
                sgn = -1;
                c = read();
            }
            double res = 0;
            while (!isSpaceChar(c) && c != '.') {
                if (c == 'e' || c == 'E')
                    return res * Math.pow(10, nextInt());
                if (c < '0' || c > '9')
                    throw new InputMismatchException();
                res *= 10;
                res += c - '0';
                c = read();
            }
            if (c == '.') 
            {
                c = read();
                double m = 1;
                while (!isSpaceChar(c))
                {
                    if (c == 'e' || c == 'E')
                        return res * Math.pow(10, nextInt());
                    if (c < '0' || c > '9')
                        throw new InputMismatchException();
                    m /= 10;
                    res += (c - '0') * m;
                    c = read();
                }
            }
            return res * sgn;
        }
    
        public String readString() 
        {
            int c = read();
            while (isSpaceChar(c))
                c = read();
            StringBuilder res = new StringBuilder();
            do 
            {
                res.appendCodePoint(c);
                c = read();
            } 
            while (!isSpaceChar(c));
            
            return res.toString();
        }
     
        public boolean isSpaceChar(int c) 
        {
            if (filter != null)
                return filter.isSpaceChar(c);
            return c == ' ' || c == '\n' || c == '\r' || c == '\t' || c == -1;
        }
     
        public String next()
        {
            return readString();
        }
        
        public interface SpaceCharFilter
        {
            public boolean isSpaceChar(int ch);
        }
		
    }
	
    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception 
    {
        new Thread(null, new Main(),"Main",1<<27).start();
    }
	// **just change the name of class from Main to reuquired**
    public void run()
    {
        InputReader sc = new InputReader(System.in);
        PrintWriter w = new PrintWriter(System.out);
		
		int n=sc.nextInt();
		ArrayList<Integer> al[]= new ArrayList[n+1];
		for(int i=0;i<=n;++i) al[i]=new ArrayList<Integer>();
	
		int max=0;
		int edge[][]=new int[n-1][2];
		for(int i=0;i<n-1;++i)
		{
			int a=sc.nextInt();
			int b=sc.nextInt();
			edge[i][0]=a;
			edge[i][1]=b;
			al[a].add(b);
			al[b].add(a);
			max=Math.max(al[a].size(),max);
			max=Math.max(al[b].size(),max);
		}
		
		HashMap<Pair,Integer> ans = new HashMap<>();
		LinkedList<Pair> queue = new LinkedList<>();
		queue.add(new Pair(1,0));
		boolean visited[]= new boolean[n+1];
		visited[1]=true;
		
		while(!queue.isEmpty())
		{
			Pair p=queue.pollFirst();
			int node=p.node;
			int color=p.edgeColor;
			
			int c=1;
			for(int child:al[node])
			{
				if(!visited[child])
				{
					if(color==c) c++;
					ans.put(new Pair(node,child),c);
					queue.add(new Pair(child,c));
					visited[child]=true;
					c++;
				}
			}
		}
		
		w.println(max);
		
		for(int i=0;i<n-1;++i)
		{
			if(ans.containsKey(new Pair(edge[i][0],edge[i][1]))) w.println(ans.get(new Pair(edge[i][0],edge[i][1])));
			else w.println(ans.get(new Pair(edge[i][1],edge[i][0])));
		}
		
        System.out.flush();
        w.close();
    }
}

class Pair
{
	int node,edgeColor;
	Pair(int n, int e)
	{
		node=n;
		edgeColor=e;
	}
	
	public int hashCode()
	{
		return node*31+edgeColor;
	}
	
	public boolean equals(Object other)
	{
		if(other instanceof Pair)
		{
			Pair p=(Pair)other;
			if(this.node==p.node && this.edgeColor==p.edgeColor) return true;
			else return false;
		}
		else return false;
	}
}