Problem:
Score : 500 points

Problem Statement

We have a deck consisting of N cards. Each card has an integer written on it. The integer on the i-th card from the top is a_i.

Two people X and Y will play a game using this deck. Initially, X has a card with Z written on it in his hand, and Y has a card with W written on it in his hand. Then, starting from X, they will alternately perform the following action:

Draw some number of cards from the top of the deck. Then, discard the card in his hand and keep the last drawn card instead. Here, at least one card must be drawn.

The game ends when there is no more card in the deck. The score of the game is the absolute difference of the integers written on the cards in the two players' hand.

X will play the game so that the score will be maximized, and Y will play the game so that the score will be minimized. What will be the score of the game?

Constraints

All input values are integers.

1 \leq N \leq 2000

1 \leq Z, W, a_i \leq 10^9

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N Z W
a_1 a_2 ... a_N

Output

Print the score.

Sample Input 1

3 100 100
10 1000 100

Sample Output 1

900

If X draws two cards first, Y will draw the last card, and the score will be |1000 - 100| = 900.

Sample Input 2

3 100 1000
10 100 100

Sample Output 2

900

If X draws all the cards first, the score will be |1000 - 100| = 900.

Sample Input 3

5 1 1
1 1 1 1 1

Sample Output 3

0

Sample Input 4

1 1 1
1000000000

Sample Output 4

999999999

Solution in Rust (1.15.1) (judge verdict: Accepted)

#![allow(unknown_lints)]
#![allow(unused_imports, unused_macros, non_snake_case, bare_trait_objects)]
#![allow(renamed_and_removed_lints, redundant_field_names)]
use std::cmp::Ordering::{self, Greater, Less};
use std::cmp::{max, min};
use std::collections::{BTreeMap, BTreeSet, BinaryHeap, HashMap, HashSet, VecDeque};
use std::error::Error;
use std::io::{self, BufReader, BufWriter, Read, Write};
use text_scanner::{scan, scan_iter, scanln, scanln_iter};
use utils::adj4_iter;

//{{{ macros missing in 1.15.1
#[macro_use]
mod macros {
    macro_rules! eprint {
        ($($t:tt)*) => {{
            use ::std::io::Write;
            let _ = write!(::std::io::stderr(), $($t)*);
        }};
    }
    macro_rules! eprintln {
        () => { eprintln!(""); };
        ($($t:tt)*) => {{
            use ::std::io::Write;
            let _ = writeln!(::std::io::stderr(), $($t)*);
        }};
    }
    macro_rules! dbg {
        ($val:expr) => {
            match $val {
                tmp => {
                    eprintln!(
                        "[{}:{}] {} = {:#?}",
                        file!(),
                        line!(),
                        stringify!($val),
                        &tmp
                    );
                    tmp
                }
            }
        };
    }
}
//}}}

fn f(
    start: usize,
    turn: usize,
    a: &[i64],
    z: i64,
    w: i64,
    memo: &mut HashMap<(usize, usize), i64>,
) -> i64 {
    if let Some(&m) = memo.get(&(start, turn)) {
        return m;
    }
    let n = a.len();
    let mut hand = vec![z, w];
    if start > 0 {
        hand[turn ^ 1] = a[start - 1];
    }

    let mut res = if turn == 0 {
        i64::min_value()
    } else {
        i64::max_value()
    };
    for end in start..n {
        let value = if end != n - 1 {
            f(end + 1, turn ^ 1, a, z, w, memo)
        } else {
            hand[turn] = a[end];
            (hand[0] - hand[1]).abs()
        };
        if turn == 0 {
            res.set_max(value);
        } else {
            res.set_min(value);
        }
    }
    memo.insert((start, turn), res);
    res
}

fn run() {
    let _: usize = scan();
    let z: i64 = scan();
    let w: i64 = scan();
    let a: Vec<i64> = scan_iter().collect();
    let mut memo = HashMap::new();
    println!("{}", f(0, 0, &a, z, w, &mut memo));
}

fn main() {
    std::thread::Builder::new()
        .name("run".to_string())
        .stack_size(256 * 1024 * 1024)
        .spawn(run)
        .unwrap()
        .join()
        .unwrap()
}

//{{{ utils
pub mod utils {
    static DY: [isize; 8] = [0, 1, 0, -1, 1, -1, 1, -1];
    static DX: [isize; 8] = [1, 0, -1, 0, 1, 1, -1, -1];

    fn try_adj(
        y: usize,
        x: usize,
        dy: isize,
        dx: isize,
        h: usize,
        w: usize,
    ) -> Option<(usize, usize)> {
        let ny = y as isize + dy;
        let nx = x as isize + dx;
        if ny >= 0 && nx >= 0 {
            let ny = ny as usize;
            let nx = nx as usize;
            if ny < h && nx < w {
                Some((ny, nx))
            } else {
                None
            }
        } else {
            None
        }
    }

    pub struct Adj4 {
        y: usize,
        x: usize,
        h: usize,
        w: usize,
        r: usize,
    }

    impl Iterator for Adj4 {
        type Item = (usize, usize);

        fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
            loop {
                if self.r >= 4 {
                    return None;
                }

                let dy = DY[self.r];
                let dx = DX[self.r];
                self.r += 1;

                if let Some((ny, nx)) = try_adj(self.y, self.x, dy, dx, self.h, self.w) {
                    return Some((ny, nx));
                }
            }
        }
    }

    pub fn adj4_iter(y: usize, x: usize, h: usize, w: usize) -> Adj4 {
        Adj4 {
            y: y,
            x: x,
            h: h,
            w: w,
            r: 0,
        }
    }
}
pub mod text_scanner {
    use std;
    #[derive(Debug)]
    pub enum Error {
        IoError(std::io::Error),
        EncodingError(std::string::FromUtf8Error),
        ParseError(String),
        Eof,
    }

    impl std::fmt::Display for Error {
        fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
            match *self {
                Error::IoError(ref e) => writeln!(f, "IO Error: {}", e),
                Error::EncodingError(ref e) => writeln!(f, "Encoding Error: {}", e),
                Error::ParseError(ref e) => writeln!(f, "Parse Error: {}", e),
                Error::Eof => writeln!(f, "EOF"),
            }
        }
    }

    impl std::error::Error for Error {
        // dummy implementation for 1.15.1
        fn description(&self) -> &str {
            "description() is deprecated; use Display"
        }
    }

    pub fn read_line() -> Option<String> {
        let stdin = std::io::stdin();
        let mut stdin = stdin.lock();
        fread_line(&mut stdin).expect("IO error")
    }

    pub fn scan<T: FromTokens>() -> T {
        let stdin = std::io::stdin();
        let mut stdin = stdin.lock();
        fscan(&mut stdin).expect("IO error")
    }

    pub fn scanln<T: FromTokens>() -> T {
        let stdin = std::io::stdin();
        let mut stdin = stdin.lock();
        fscanln(&mut stdin).expect("IO error")
    }

    pub fn scan_iter<T: FromTokens>() -> ScanIter<T> {
        ScanIter {
            item_type: std::marker::PhantomData,
        }
    }

    pub fn scanln_iter<T: FromTokens>() -> ScanlnIter<T> {
        let stdin = std::io::stdin();
        let mut stdin = stdin.lock();
        let s = fread_line(&mut stdin)
            .expect("IO error")
            .unwrap_or_else(String::new);
        ScanlnIter {
            cursor: std::io::Cursor::new(s),
            item_type: std::marker::PhantomData,
        }
    }

    pub fn fread_line<R: std::io::BufRead>(r: &mut R) -> Result<Option<String>, std::io::Error> {
        let mut buf = String::new();
        let length = r.read_line(&mut buf)?;
        if let Some('\n') = buf.chars().last() {
            buf.pop();
        }
        if let Some('\r') = buf.chars().last() {
            buf.pop();
        }
        if length == 0 {
            Ok(None)
        } else {
            Ok(Some(buf))
        }
    }

    pub fn fscan<R: std::io::Read, T: FromTokens>(reader: &mut R) -> Result<T, Error> {
        let mut tokenizer = Tokenizer::new(reader);
        FromTokens::from_tokens(&mut tokenizer)
    }

    pub fn fscanln<R: std::io::BufRead, T: FromTokens>(reader: &mut R) -> Result<T, Error> {
        let s = match fread_line(reader) {
            Ok(Some(s)) => s,
            Ok(None) => return Err(Error::Eof),
            Err(e) => return Err(Error::IoError(e)),
        };
        let mut bytes = s.as_bytes();
        let mut tokenizer = Tokenizer::new(&mut bytes);
        FromTokens::from_tokens(&mut tokenizer)
    }

    pub fn fscan_iter<R: std::io::Read, T: FromTokens>(reader: &mut R) -> FscanIter<R, T> {
        FscanIter {
            tokenizer: Tokenizer::new(reader),
            item_type: std::marker::PhantomData,
        }
    }

    pub fn fscanln_iter<R: std::io::BufRead, T: FromTokens>(
        reader: &mut R,
    ) -> Result<ScanlnIter<T>, Error> {
        let s = match fread_line(reader) {
            Ok(Some(s)) => s,
            Ok(None) => "".to_string(),
            Err(e) => return Err(Error::IoError(e)),
        };
        Ok(ScanlnIter {
            cursor: std::io::Cursor::new(s),
            item_type: std::marker::PhantomData,
        })
    }

    pub struct ScanIter<T>
    where
        T: FromTokens,
    {
        item_type: std::marker::PhantomData<T>,
    }

    impl<T: FromTokens> Iterator for ScanIter<T> {
        type Item = T;

        fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
            let stdin = std::io::stdin();
            let mut stdin = stdin.lock();
            let mut tokenizer = Tokenizer::new(&mut stdin);
            match FromTokens::from_tokens(&mut tokenizer) {
                Err(Error::Eof) => None,
                r => Some(r.expect("IO error")),
            }
        }
    }

    pub struct FscanIter<'a, R, T>
    where
        R: std::io::Read + 'a,
        T: FromTokens,
    {
        tokenizer: Tokenizer<'a, R>,
        item_type: std::marker::PhantomData<T>,
    }

    impl<'a, R: std::io::Read, T: FromTokens> Iterator for FscanIter<'a, R, T> {
        type Item = Result<T, Error>;

        fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
            match FromTokens::from_tokens(&mut self.tokenizer) {
                Err(Error::Eof) => None,
                r => Some(r),
            }
        }
    }

    pub struct ScanlnIter<T>
    where
        T: FromTokens,
    {
        cursor: std::io::Cursor<String>,
        item_type: std::marker::PhantomData<T>,
    }

    impl<'a, T: FromTokens> Iterator for ScanlnIter<T> {
        type Item = T;

        fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
            let mut tokenizer = Tokenizer::new(&mut self.cursor);
            match FromTokens::from_tokens(&mut tokenizer) {
                Err(Error::Eof) => None,
                r => Some(r.expect("IO error")),
            }
        }
    }

    pub trait FromTokens
    where
        Self: Sized,
    {
        fn from_tokens(
            tokenizer: &mut Iterator<Item = Result<String, Error>>,
        ) -> Result<Self, Error>;
    }

    macro_rules! from_tokens_primitives {
    ($($t:ty),*) => { $(
        impl FromTokens for $t {
            fn from_tokens(tokenizer: &mut Iterator<Item = Result<String, Error>>) -> Result<Self, Error> {
                let token = tokenizer.next();
                match token {
                    Some(s) => s?
                        .parse::<$t>()
                        .map_err(|e| Error::ParseError(format!("{}", e))),
                    None => Err(Error::Eof),
                }
            }
        }
    )* }
}

    from_tokens_primitives! {
        String,
        bool,
        f32,
        f64,
        isize,
        i8,
        i16,
        i32,
        i64,
        usize,
        u8,
        u16,
        u32,
        u64
    }

    impl FromTokens for Vec<char> {
        fn from_tokens(
            tokenizer: &mut Iterator<Item = Result<String, Error>>,
        ) -> Result<Self, Error> {
            Ok(String::from_tokens(tokenizer)?.chars().collect())
        }
    }

    impl<T1, T2> FromTokens for (T1, T2)
    where
        T1: FromTokens,
        T2: FromTokens,
    {
        fn from_tokens(
            tokenizer: &mut Iterator<Item = Result<String, Error>>,
        ) -> Result<Self, Error> {
            Ok((T1::from_tokens(tokenizer)?, T2::from_tokens(tokenizer)?))
        }
    }

    impl<T1, T2, T3> FromTokens for (T1, T2, T3)
    where
        T1: FromTokens,
        T2: FromTokens,
        T3: FromTokens,
    {
        fn from_tokens(
            tokenizer: &mut Iterator<Item = Result<String, Error>>,
        ) -> Result<Self, Error> {
            Ok((
                T1::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
                T2::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
                T3::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
            ))
        }
    }

    impl<T1, T2, T3, T4> FromTokens for (T1, T2, T3, T4)
    where
        T1: FromTokens,
        T2: FromTokens,
        T3: FromTokens,
        T4: FromTokens,
    {
        fn from_tokens(
            tokenizer: &mut Iterator<Item = Result<String, Error>>,
        ) -> Result<Self, Error> {
            Ok((
                T1::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
                T2::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
                T3::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
                T4::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
            ))
        }
    }

    impl<T1, T2, T3, T4, T5> FromTokens for (T1, T2, T3, T4, T5)
    where
        T1: FromTokens,
        T2: FromTokens,
        T3: FromTokens,
        T4: FromTokens,
        T5: FromTokens,
    {
        fn from_tokens(
            tokenizer: &mut Iterator<Item = Result<String, Error>>,
        ) -> Result<Self, Error> {
            Ok((
                T1::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
                T2::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
                T3::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
                T4::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
                T5::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
            ))
        }
    }

    impl<T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6> FromTokens for (T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6)
    where
        T1: FromTokens,
        T2: FromTokens,
        T3: FromTokens,
        T4: FromTokens,
        T5: FromTokens,
        T6: FromTokens,
    {
        fn from_tokens(
            tokenizer: &mut Iterator<Item = Result<String, Error>>,
        ) -> Result<Self, Error> {
            Ok((
                T1::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
                T2::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
                T3::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
                T4::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
                T5::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
                T6::from_tokens(tokenizer)?,
            ))
        }
    }

    struct Tokenizer<'a, R: std::io::Read + 'a> {
        reader: &'a mut R,
    }

    impl<'a, R: std::io::Read> Tokenizer<'a, R> {
        pub fn new(reader: &'a mut R) -> Self {
            Tokenizer { reader: reader }
        }

        pub fn next_token(&mut self) -> Result<Option<String>, Error> {
            use std::io::Read;
            let mut token = Vec::new();
            for b in self.reader.by_ref().bytes() {
                let b = b.map_err(Error::IoError)?;
                match (is_ascii_whitespace(b), token.is_empty()) {
                    (false, _) => token.push(b),
                    (true, false) => break,
                    (true, true) => {}
                }
            }
            if token.is_empty() {
                return Ok(None);
            }
            String::from_utf8(token)
                .map(Some)
                .map_err(Error::EncodingError)
        }
    }

    impl<'a, R: std::io::Read> Iterator for Tokenizer<'a, R> {
        type Item = Result<String, Error>;
        fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
            match self.next_token() {
                Ok(Some(s)) => Some(Ok(s)),
                Ok(None) => None,
                Err(e) => Some(Err(e)),
            }
        }
    }

    fn is_ascii_whitespace(b: u8) -> bool {
        // Can use u8::is_ascii_whitespace once removing support of 1.15.1
        match b {
            b'\t' | b'\n' | b'\x0C' | b'\r' | b' ' => true,
            _ => false,
        }
    }
}

pub trait SetMinMax {
    fn set_min(&mut self, v: Self) -> bool;
    fn set_max(&mut self, v: Self) -> bool;
}

impl<T> SetMinMax for T
where
    T: PartialOrd,
{
    fn set_min(&mut self, v: T) -> bool {
        *self > v && {
            *self = v;
            true
        }
    }
    fn set_max(&mut self, v: T) -> bool {
        *self < v && {
            *self = v;
            true
        }
    }
}

#[derive(PartialEq, Eq, Debug, Copy, Clone, Default, Hash)]
pub struct Reverse<T>(pub T);

impl<T: PartialOrd> PartialOrd for Reverse<T> {
    #[inline]
    fn partial_cmp(&self, other: &Reverse<T>) -> Option<Ordering> {
        other.0.partial_cmp(&self.0)
    }

    #[inline]
    fn lt(&self, other: &Self) -> bool {
        other.0 < self.0
    }
    #[inline]
    fn le(&self, other: &Self) -> bool {
        other.0 <= self.0
    }
    #[inline]
    fn ge(&self, other: &Self) -> bool {
        other.0 >= self.0
    }
    #[inline]
    fn gt(&self, other: &Self) -> bool {
        other.0 > self.0
    }
}

impl<T: Ord> Ord for Reverse<T> {
    #[inline]
    fn cmp(&self, other: &Reverse<T>) -> Ordering {
        other.0.cmp(&self.0)
    }
}

#[derive(PartialEq, PartialOrd, Debug, Copy, Clone, Default)]
pub struct Num(pub f64);

impl Eq for Num {}

impl Ord for Num {
    fn cmp(&self, other: &Num) -> Ordering {
        self.0
            .partial_cmp(&other.0)
            .expect("unexpected NaN when compare")
    }
}

// See https://docs.rs/superslice/1.0.0/superslice/trait.Ext.html
pub trait SliceExt {
    type Item;

    fn lower_bound(&self, x: &Self::Item) -> usize
    where
        Self::Item: Ord;

    fn lower_bound_by<'a, F>(&'a self, f: F) -> usize
    where
        F: FnMut(&'a Self::Item) -> Ordering;

    fn lower_bound_by_key<'a, K, F>(&'a self, k: &K, f: F) -> usize
    where
        F: FnMut(&'a Self::Item) -> K,
        K: Ord;

    fn upper_bound(&self, x: &Self::Item) -> usize
    where
        Self::Item: Ord;

    fn upper_bound_by<'a, F>(&'a self, f: F) -> usize
    where
        F: FnMut(&'a Self::Item) -> Ordering;

    fn upper_bound_by_key<'a, K, F>(&'a self, k: &K, f: F) -> usize
    where
        F: FnMut(&'a Self::Item) -> K,
        K: Ord;
}

impl<T> SliceExt for [T] {
    type Item = T;

    fn lower_bound(&self, x: &Self::Item) -> usize
    where
        T: Ord,
    {
        self.lower_bound_by(|y| y.cmp(x))
    }

    fn lower_bound_by<'a, F>(&'a self, mut f: F) -> usize
    where
        F: FnMut(&'a Self::Item) -> Ordering,
    {
        let s = self;
        let mut size = s.len();
        if size == 0 {
            return 0;
        }
        let mut base = 0usize;
        while size > 1 {
            let half = size / 2;
            let mid = base + half;
            let cmp = f(unsafe { s.get_unchecked(mid) });
            base = if cmp == Less { mid } else { base };
            size -= half;
        }
        let cmp = f(unsafe { s.get_unchecked(base) });
        base + (cmp == Less) as usize
    }

    fn lower_bound_by_key<'a, K, F>(&'a self, k: &K, mut f: F) -> usize
    where
        F: FnMut(&'a Self::Item) -> K,
        K: Ord,
    {
        self.lower_bound_by(|e| f(e).cmp(k))
    }

    fn upper_bound(&self, x: &Self::Item) -> usize
    where
        T: Ord,
    {
        self.upper_bound_by(|y| y.cmp(x))
    }

    fn upper_bound_by<'a, F>(&'a self, mut f: F) -> usize
    where
        F: FnMut(&'a Self::Item) -> Ordering,
    {
        let s = self;
        let mut size = s.len();
        if size == 0 {
            return 0;
        }
        let mut base = 0usize;
        while size > 1 {
            let half = size / 2;
            let mid = base + half;
            let cmp = f(unsafe { s.get_unchecked(mid) });
            base = if cmp == Greater { base } else { mid };
            size -= half;
        }
        let cmp = f(unsafe { s.get_unchecked(base) });
        base + (cmp != Greater) as usize
    }

    fn upper_bound_by_key<'a, K, F>(&'a self, k: &K, mut f: F) -> usize
    where
        F: FnMut(&'a Self::Item) -> K,
        K: Ord,
    {
        self.upper_bound_by(|e| f(e).cmp(k))
    }
}

//}}}