Arranging Coins問題及解法
阿新 • • 發佈:2019-01-29
問題描述:
You have a total ofncoins that you want to form in a staircase shape, where everyk-th row must have exactlykcoins.
Givenn, find the total number offullstaircase rows that can be formed.
nis a non-negative integer and fits within the range of a 32-bit signed integer.
示例:n = 5 The coins can form the following rows: ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ Because the 3rd row is incomplete, we return 2.
n = 8 The coins can form the following rows: ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ Because the 4th row is incomplete, we return 3.問題分析:
主要是考察了等差數列的求和公式1+2+3+4+..+n = (1+n)*n / 2.
可以有兩種做法:
1.二分查詢法
2.利用數學公式推導求解
以下程式碼給出了兩種求解方式:
1.二分查詢:
class Solution { public: int arrangeCoins(int n) { long long left = 1,right = n, mid; while(left <= right) { mid = left + (right - left) / 2; long long temp = mid * (mid + 1) / 2; if(temp == n) return mid; else if(temp < n) left = mid + 1; else right = mid - 1; } return left - 1; } };
2.數學推導:
class Solution {
public:
int arrangeCoins(int n) {
return (int) floor((-1 + sqrt(1+8L*n))/2.0);
}
};