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## Problem Statement Safe Ltd. is a company that manufactures high-quality safes. Its latest invention is an optical closure mechanism that uses a laser beam passing through a rectangular grid with several mirrors. When the laser is activated, a beam enters the top row of the grid horizontally from the left. The beam is reflected by every mirror that it hits. Each mirror has a 45 degree diagonal orientation, either `/` or `\`. If the beam exits the bottom row of the grid horizontally to the right, it is detected and the safe opens. Otherwise, the safe remains closed and an alarm is raised. Each safe has a missing mirror, which prevents the laser beam from traveling successfully through the grid. The safe has a mechanism that enables the user to drop a single mirror into any empty grid cell. A legitimate user knows the correct position and orientation of the missing mirror and can thus open the safe. Without this knowledge, the user has to guess correctly, which can be difficult for safes with large grids. Your job is to determine if particular safes are actually secure. A secure safe does not open right away without inserting a mirror, and there is at least one valid location and orientation for the missing mirror. There may indeed be multiple such locations and orientations. ## Input Each test case describes a single safe and starts with a line containing four integer numbers r,c,m, r, c, m, and n n (1r,c1,000,000(1 \leq r, c \leq 1,000,000 and 0m,n200,000) 0 \leq m, n \leq 200,000). The mechanism’s grid has r r rows and c c columns. - Each of the next m m lines contains two integer numbers ri r_i and ci c_i (1rir(1 \leq r_i \leq r and 1cic) 1 \leq c_i \leq c) specifying that there is a `/` mirror in row ri r_i column ci c_i . - The following n n lines specify the positions of the `\` mirrors in the same way. The m+n m + n positions of the mirrors are pairwise distinct. ## Output For each test case, display its case number followed by: - `0` if the safe opens without inserting a mirror. - `k r c` if the safe does not open without inserting a mirror, there are exactly k k positions where inserting a mirror opens the safe, and (r,c)(r, c) is the lexicographically smallest such row, column position. A position where both a `/` and a `\` mirror open the safe counts just once. - `impossible` if the safe cannot be opened with or without inserting a mirror. ## Sample Input
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## Problem Statement

Safe Ltd. is a company that manufactures high-quality safes. Its latest invention is an optical closure mechanism that uses a laser beam passing through a rectangular grid with several mirrors.

When the laser is activated, a beam enters the top row of the grid horizontally from the left. The beam is reflected by every mirror that it hits. Each mirror has a 45 degree diagonal orientation, either `/` or `\`. If the beam exits the bottom row of the grid horizontally to the right, it is detected and the safe opens. Otherwise, the safe remains closed and an alarm is raised.

Each safe has a missing mirror, which prevents the laser beam from traveling successfully through the grid. The safe has a mechanism that enables the user to drop a single mirror into any empty grid cell. A legitimate user knows the correct position and orientation of the missing mirror and can thus open the safe. Without this knowledge, the user has to guess correctly, which can be difficult for safes with large grids.

Your job is to determine if particular safes are actually secure. A secure safe does not open right away without inserting a mirror, and there is at least one valid location and orientation for the missing mirror. There may indeed be multiple such locations and orientations.

## Input

Each test case describes a single safe and starts with a line containing four integer numbers r,c,m, and n (1≤r,c≤1,000,000 and 0≤m,n≤200,000). The mechanism’s grid has r rows and c columns.

- Each of the next m lines contains two integer numbers r_(i) and c_(i) (1≤r_(i)≤r and 1≤c_(i)≤c) specifying that there is a `/` mirror in row r_(i) column c_(i).
- The following n lines specify the positions of the `\` mirrors in the same way. The m+n positions of the mirrors are pairwise distinct.

## Output

For each test case, display its case number followed by:

- `0` if the safe opens without inserting a mirror.
- `k r c` if the safe does not open without inserting a mirror, there are exactly k positions where inserting a mirror opens the safe, and (r,c) is the lexicographically smallest such row, column position. A position where both a `/` and a `\` mirror open the safe counts just once.
- `impossible` if the safe cannot be opened with or without inserting a mirror.

## Sample Input

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## Problem Statement

Safe Ltd. is a company that manufactures high-quality safes. Its latest invention is an optical closure mechanism that uses a laser beam passing through a rectangular grid with several mirrors.

When the laser is activated, a beam enters the top row of the grid horizontally from the left. The beam is reflected by every mirror that it hits. Each mirror has a 45 degree diagonal orientation, either `/` or `\`. If the beam exits the bottom row of the grid horizontally to the right, it is detected and the safe opens. Otherwise, the safe remains closed and an alarm is raised.

Each safe has a missing mirror, which prevents the laser beam from traveling successfully through the grid. The safe has a mechanism that enables the user to drop a single mirror into any empty grid cell. A legitimate user knows the correct position and orientation of the missing mirror and can thus open the safe. Without this knowledge, the user has to guess correctly, which can be difficult for safes with large grids.

Your job is to determine if particular safes are actually secure. A secure safe does not open right away without inserting a mirror, and there is at least one valid location and orientation for the missing mirror. There may indeed be multiple such locations and orientations.

## Input

Each test case describes a single safe and starts with a line containing four integer numbers \( r, c, m, \) and \( n \) \((1 \leq r, c \leq 1,000,000\) and \( 0 \leq m, n \leq 200,000)\). The mechanism’s grid has \( r \) rows and \( c \) columns.

- Each of the next \( m \) lines contains two integer numbers \( r_i \) and \( c_i \) \((1 \leq r_i \leq r\) and \( 1 \leq c_i \leq c)\) specifying that there is a `/` mirror in row \( r_i \) column \( c_i \).
- The following \( n \) lines specify the positions of the `\` mirrors in the same way. The \( m + n \) positions of the mirrors are pairwise distinct.

## Output

For each test case, display its case number followed by:

- `0` if the safe opens without inserting a mirror.
- `k r c` if the safe does not open without inserting a mirror, there are exactly \( k \) positions where inserting a mirror opens the safe, and \((r, c)\) is the lexicographically smallest such row, column position. A position where both a `/` and a `\` mirror open the safe counts just once.
- `impossible` if the safe cannot be opened with or without inserting a mirror.

## Sample Input

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5 6 1 4
2 3
1 2
2 5
4 2
5 5
100 100 0 2
1 77
100 77
100 100 0 0

## Sample Output

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Case 1: 2 4 3
Case 2: 0
Case 3: impossible

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