What is a mathematical way of of saying 1 - 1 = 12 for a month calculation? Adding is easy, 12 + 1 % 12 = 1, but subtraction introduces 0, stuffing things up.
My actual requirement is x = x + d, where x must always be between 1 and 12 before and after the summing, and d any unsigned integer.
Assuming x and y are both in the range 1-12:
((x - y + 11) % 12) + 1
To break this down:
// Range = [0, 22]
x - y + 11
// Range = [0, 11]
(x - y + 11) % 12
// Range = [1, 12]
((x - y + 11) % 12) + 1
I'd work internally with a 0 based month (0-11), summing one for external consumption only (output, another calling method expecting 1-12, etc.), that way you can wrap around backwards just as easily as wrapping around forward.
>>> for i in range(15):
... print '%d + 1 => %d' % (i, (i+1)%12)
...
0 + 1 => 1
1 + 1 => 2
2 + 1 => 3
3 + 1 => 4
4 + 1 => 5
5 + 1 => 6
6 + 1 => 7
7 + 1 => 8
8 + 1 => 9
9 + 1 => 10
10 + 1 => 11
11 + 1 => 0
12 + 1 => 1
13 + 1 => 2
14 + 1 => 3
>>> for i in range(15):
... print '%d - 1 => %d' % (i, (i-1)%12)
...
0 - 1 => 11
1 - 1 => 0
2 - 1 => 1
3 - 1 => 2
4 - 1 => 3
5 - 1 => 4
6 - 1 => 5
7 - 1 => 6
8 - 1 => 7
9 - 1 => 8
10 - 1 => 9
11 - 1 => 10
12 - 1 => 11
13 - 1 => 0
14 - 1 => 1
You have to be careful with addition, too, since (11 + 1) % 12 = 0. Try this:
x % 12 + 1
This comes from using a normalisation function:
norm(x) = ((x - 1) % 12) + 1
Substituting,
norm(x + 1) = (((x + 1) - 1) % 12 + 1
norm(x + 1) = (x) % 12 + 1
The % (modulus) operator produces an answer in the range 0..(N-1) for x % N. Given that your inputs are in the range 1..N (for N = 12), the general adding code for adding a positive number y months to current month x should be:
(x + y - 1) % 12 + 1
When y is 1, this reduces to
x % 12 + 1
Subtracting is basically the same. However, there are complications with the answers produced by different implementations of the modulus operator when either (or both) of the operands is negative. If the number to be subtracted is known to be in in the range 1..N, then you can use the fact that subtracting y modulo N is the same as adding (N - y) modulo N. If y is unconstrained (but positive), then use:
(x + (12 - (y % 12) - 1) % 12 + 1
This double-modulo operation is a common part of the solution to problems like this when the range of the values is not under control.
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I'm trying to solve a Digital Root problem using Recursion. It seems to work for the first time around but not for the consecutive times.
Here's what I want it to do:
digital_root(16)
=> 1 + 6
=> 7
digital_root(942)
=> 9 + 4 + 2
=> 15 ...
=> 1 + 5
=> 6
digital_root(132189)
=> 1 + 3 + 2 + 1 + 8 + 9
=> 24 ...
=> 2 + 4
=> 6
digital_root(493193)
=> 4 + 9 + 3 + 1 + 9 + 3
=> 29 ...
=> 2 + 9
=> 11 ...
=> 1 + 1
=> 2
Here's what I got:
def digital_root(n)
arr = n.to_s.split("")
arr.size > 1 ? arr[0].to_i + digital_root(arr[1..-1].join).to_i : arr.join.to_i
end
Let me know how to make it work regardless of how many layers I need.
Thanks in advance.
In your code, the function processes only 1 digits in 1 call. (4 for digital_root(493193))
Let's process 1 layer in 1 call and call next one (digital_root(29)).
def digital_root(n)
arr = n.to_s.split("")
arr.size > 1 ? digital_root(arr.map(&:to_i).sum) : arr.join.to_i
end
And slightly better version.
def digital_root(n)
n < 10 ? n : digital_root(n.digits.sum)
end
Input 1 :
64
Output:( size of 3 )
1 x 1 x 64 =64
1 x 2 x 32 =64
1 x 4 x 16 =64
1 x 8 x 8 =64
2 x 2 x 16 =64
2 x 4 x 8 =64
4 x 4 x 4 =64
Input 2 :
6
Output:( size of 2 )
1 x 6 =6
2 x 3 =6
I tried Using Complete Binary Tree but I didn't get all possible Combination
.
Here is :
64
32 2
16 2 2 1
8 2 1 2 1 2 1 1
If Your trace level by level elements only some combinations are available
64 x 1 X 1
32 X 2 X 1
16 x 2 x 2
8 x 2 x 2 x 2( limit > 3 )
Question is I need all possible combinations
You can use recursion method. Consider the following PHP code (I guess you can convert for the idea to each language you need):
function comb($num, $cnt, $prefix, $minDiv) {
if ($cnt == 0)
{
if ($num == 1)
return rtrim($prefix,",");
else return false;
}
$arrs = array();
for ($i=$minDiv; $i <= $num; $i++) {
if ($num % $i == 0) { // if num modulo i equal 0
$ans = comb($num/$i, $cnt-1, $prefix . $i . ",", $i );
if ($ans) // if valid combination add it
$arrs[] = $ans;
}
}
return $arrs;
}
$ans = comb(64,3, "",1);
echo "ANSWER:\n";
echo print_r($ans);
This code will generate the following answer for comb(6,2, "", 1):
1,6
2,3
I'm trying to figure out this algorithm that accepts an input of an int and should return an output of the sum of each element in the int.
# Input -> 4321
# output -> 10 (4+3+2+1)
def sum_func(n):
# Base case
if len(str(n)) == 1:
return n
# Recursion
else:
return n%10 + sum_func(n/10)
When Trying to break apart this algorithm this is what I come up with
1st loop -> 1 + 432 = 433
2nd loop -> 2 + 43 = 45
3rd loop -> 3 + 4 = 7
4th loop -> 4 + 4 = 8
How was it able to come up with the result of 10?
Unwinding, it would look like this:
sum_func(4321)
= 1 + sum_func(432)
= 1 + 2 + sum_func(43)
= 1 + 2 + 3 + sum_func(4)
= 1 + 2 + 3 + 4
When trying to understand recursion you'll have to clearly understand what is returned.
In this case function sum_func(n) returns the sum of the digits in it's argument n.
For concrete n task is divided into last_digit_of_n + sum_func(n_without_last_digit).
For example,
sum_func(4321) =
sum_func(432) + 1 =
sum_func(43) + 2 + 1 =
sum_func(4) + 3 + 2 + 1 =
4 + 3 + 2 + 1
Hope this helps.
(As a side note, checking if n has more than one digit using str is a bad idea. Better just to check if n <= 9)
You must reach the base case before the summation occurs:
Iteration 1: 1 + sum_func(432)
Iteration 2: 1 + 2 + sum_func(43)
Iteration 3: 1 + 2 + 3 + sum_func(4) = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10
I'm wondering if someone can help me try to figure this out.
I want f(str) to take a string str of digits and return the sum of all substrings as numbers, and I want to write f as a function of itself so that I can try to solve this with memoization.
It's not jumping out at me as I stare at
Solve("1") = 1
Solve("2") = 2
Solve("12") = 12 + 1 + 2
Solve("29") = 29 + 2 + 9
Solve("129") = 129 + 12 + 29 + 1 + 2 + 9
Solve("293") = 293 + 29 + 93 + 2 + 9 + 3
Solve("1293") = 1293 + 129 + 293 + 12 + 29 + 93 + 1 + 2 + 9 + 3
Solve("2395") = 2395 + 239 + 395 + 23 + 39 + 95 + 2 + 3 + 9 + 5
Solve("12395") = 12395 + 1239 + 2395 + 123 + 239 + 395 + 12 + 23 + 39 + 95 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 9 + 5
You have to break f down into two functions.
Let N[i] be the ith digit of the input. Let T[i] be the sum of substrings of the first i-1 characters of the input. Let B[i] be the sum of suffixes of the first i characters of the input.
So if the input is "12395", then B[3] = 9+39+239+1239, and T[3] = 123+12+23+1+2+3.
The recurrence relations are:
T[0] = B[0] = 0
T[i+1] = T[i] + B[i]
B[i+1] = B[i]*10 + (i+1)*N[i]
The last line needs some explanation: the suffixes of the first i+2 characters are the suffixes of the first i+1 characters with the N[i] appended on the end, as well as the single-character string N[i]. The sum of these is (B[i]*10+N[i]*i) + N[i] which is the same as B[i]*10+N[i]*(i+1).
Also f(N) = T[len(N)] + B[len(N)].
This gives a short, linear-time, iterative solution, which you could consider to be a dynamic program:
def solve(n):
rt, rb = 0, 0
for i in xrange(len(n)):
rt, rb = rt+rb, rb*10+(i+1)*int(n[i])
return rt+rb
print solve("12395")
One way to look at this problem is to consider the contribution of each digit to the final sum.
For example, consider the digit Di at position i (from the end) in the number xn-1…xi+1Diyi-1…y0. (I used x, D, and y just to be able to talk about the digit positions.) If we look at all the substrings which contain D and sort them by the position of D from the end of the number, we'll see the following:
D
xD
xxD
…
xx…xD
Dy
xDy
xxDy
…
xx…xDy
Dyy
xDyy
xxDyy
…
xx…xDyy
and so on.
In other words, D appears in every position from 0 to i once for each prefix length from 0 to n-i-1 (inclusive), or a total of n-i times in each digit position. That means that its total contribution to the sum is D*(n-i) times the sum of the powers of 10 from 100 to 10i. (As it happens, that sum is exactly (10i+1−1)⁄9.)
That leads to a slightly simpler version of the iteration proposed by Paul Hankin:
def solve(n):
ones = 0
accum = 0
for m in range(len(n),0,-1):
ones = 10 * ones + 1
accum += m * ones * int(n[m-1])
return accum
By rearranging the sums in a different way, you can come up with this simple recursion, if you really really want a recursive solution:
# Find the sum of the digits in a number represented as a string
digitSum = lambda n: sum(map(int, n))
# Recursive solution by summing suffixes:
solve2 = lambda n: solve2(n[1:]) + (10 * int(n) - digitSum(n))/9 if n else 0
In case it's not obvious, 10*n-digitSum(n) is always divisible by 9, because:
10*n == n + 9*n == (mod 9) n mod 9 + 0
digitSum(n) mod 9 == n mod 9. (Because 10k == 1 mod n for any k.)
Therefore (10*n - digitSum(n)) mod 9 == (n - n) mod 9 == 0.
Looking at this pattern:
Solve("1") = f("1") = 1
Solve("12") = f("12") = 1 + 2 + 12 = f("1") + 2 + 12
Solve("123") = f("123") = 1 + 2 + 12 + 3 + 23 + 123 = f("12") + 3 + 23 + 123
Solve("1239") = f("1239") = 1 + 2 + 12 + 3 + 23 + 123 + 9 + 39 + 239 + 1239 = f("123") + 9 + 39 + 239 + 1239
Solve("12395") = f("12395") = 1 + 2 + 12 + 3 + 23 + 123 + 9 + 39 + 239 + 1239 + 5 + 95 + 395 + 2395 + 12395 = f("1239") + 5 + 95 + 395 + 2395 + 12395
To get the new terms, with n being the length of str, you are including the substrings made up of the 0-based index ranges of characters in str: (n-1,n-1), (n-2,n-1), (n-3,n-1), ... (n-n, n-1).
You can write a function to get the sum of the integers formed from the substring index ranges. Calling that function g(str), you can write the function recursively as f(str) = f(str.substring(0, str.length - 1)) + g(str) when str.length > 1, and the base case with str.length == 1 would just return the integer value of str. (The parameters of substring are the start index of a character in str and the length of the resulting substring.)
For the example Solve("12395"), the recursive equation f(str) = f(str.substring(0, str.length - 1)) + g(str) yields:
f("12395") =
f("1239") + g("12395") =
(f("123") + g("1239")) + g("12395") =
((f("12") + g("123")) + g("1239")) + g("12395") =
(((f("1") + g("12")) + g("123")) + g("1239")) + g("12395") =
1 + (2 + 12) + (3 + 23 + 123) + (9 + 39 + 239 + 1239) + (5 + 95 + 395 + 2395 + 12395)
Consider we have N points on a circle. To each point an index is assigned i = (1,2,...,N). Now, for a randomly selected point, I want to have a vector including the indices of 5 points, [two left neighbors, the point itself, two right neighbors].
See the figure below.
Some sxamples are as follows:
N = 18;
selectedPointIdx = 4;
sequence = [2 3 4 5 6];
selectedPointIdx = 1
sequence = [17 18 1 2 3]
selectedPointIdx = 17
sequence = [15 16 17 18 1];
The conventional way to code this is considering the exceptions as if-else statements, as I did:
if ii == 1
lseq = [N-1 N ii ii+1 ii+2];
elseif ii == 2
lseq = [N ii-1 ii ii+1 ii+2];
elseif ii == N-1
lseq=[ii-2 ii-1 ii N 1];
elseif ii == N
lseq=[ii-2 ii-1 ii 1 2];
else
lseq=[ii-2 ii-1 ii ii+1 ii+2];
end
where ii is selectedPointIdx.
It is not efficient if I consider for instance 7 points instead of 5. What is a more efficient way?
How about this -
off = -2:2
out = mod((off + selectedPointIdx) + 17,18) + 1
For a window size of 7, edit off to -3:3.
It uses the strategy of subtracting 1 + modding + adding back 1 as also discussed here.
Sample run -
>> off = -2:2;
for selectedPointIdx = 1:18
disp(['For selectedPointIdx =',num2str(selectedPointIdx),' :'])
disp(mod((off + selectedPointIdx) + 17,18) + 1)
end
For selectedPointIdx =1 :
17 18 1 2 3
For selectedPointIdx =2 :
18 1 2 3 4
For selectedPointIdx =3 :
1 2 3 4 5
For selectedPointIdx =4 :
2 3 4 5 6
For selectedPointIdx =5 :
3 4 5 6 7
For selectedPointIdx =6 :
4 5 6 7 8
....
For selectedPointIdx =11 :
9 10 11 12 13
For selectedPointIdx =12 :
10 11 12 13 14
For selectedPointIdx =13 :
11 12 13 14 15
For selectedPointIdx =14 :
12 13 14 15 16
For selectedPointIdx =15 :
13 14 15 16 17
For selectedPointIdx =16 :
14 15 16 17 18
For selectedPointIdx =17 :
15 16 17 18 1
For selectedPointIdx =18 :
16 17 18 1 2
You can use modular arithmetic instead: Let p be the point among N points numbered 1 to N. Say you want m neighbors on each side, you can get them as follows:
(p - m - 1) mod N + 1
...
(p - 4) mod N + 1
(p - 3) mod N + 1
(p - 2) mod N + 1
p
(p + 1) mod N + 1
(p + 2) mod N + 1
(p + 3) mod N + 1
...
(p + m - 1) mod N + 1
Code:
N = 18;
p = 2;
m = 3;
for i = p - m : p + m
nb = mod((i - 1) , N) + 1;
disp(nb);
end
Run code here
I would like you to note that you might not necessarily improve performance by avoiding a if statement. A benchmark might be necessary to figure this out. However, this will only be significant if you are treating tens of thousands of numbers.