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There are three kinds of actuaries: those who can count, and those who can't.
Build a map with basic situations, and denote the number of moves.
Then slowly enlarge your situations, see if you can get a situation that is already present in your table, and so you have a new solution.
"If you lie to the computer, it will get you."
Favorite Granny's Wisdom Pearl
There are three kinds of actuaries: those who can count, and those who can't.
"If you lie to the computer, it will get you."
Favorite Granny's Wisdom Pearl
There are three kinds of actuaries: those who can count, and those who can't.
"If you lie to the computer, it will get you."
Favorite Granny's Wisdom Pearl
There are three kinds of actuaries: those who can count, and those who can't.
"If you lie to the computer, it will get you."
Favorite Granny's Wisdom Pearl
There are three kinds of actuaries: those who can count, and those who can't.
integers H and T (1≤ H,T ≤100)
Piet Souris wrote:hi DJ,
well, having such a lovin'and understanding family is a great boon!
Piet Souris wrote:
First of all: you might be forgiven to think that what we proposed, is like using a canon to shoot a mosquito. You could argue that, if there are no tails, the outcome will be decided by whether the heads are even or odd. If we have at leat one tail, we can expand that to any number of tails, and thus we can chop any number of heads accordingly. So, having one head and 51 ails, can you come up with a strategy that delivers you the number of moves as well?
Piet Souris wrote:
But let's try the OOP approach a little. Your drawing looks daunting and a bit chaotic, so I can imagine you lost track of where you were going. I said that a tree structure would be good for some difficulties, but I wanted you to try it anyway, because I think it is a great way to expand your experience.
How do you present the possible situations of heads and tails? There are several ways. A simple way would be to have a 2D array headtail[x][y], with value the moves to succes. A headtail[x][y] with value -1 or so, would indicate no solution. Or you could use an existing class that has two integer fields, likeJava's Point and Dimension, and use a dictionary<Point, Integer>, where the value indicates the number of moves to succes.
But what about a class that represents all this? For instance the class HeadTail (I use Javacode here, because my Python knowledge is a little bit very rusty):
Now, set up a Queue<HeadTail> (I always use a LinkedList for that, I'm not sure what python has for this) and a Set<HeadTail> setOfAllHeadTails (a HashSet/dictionary would be nice).
Put HeadTail(0, 0, 0) in the queue and in result, and there goes:
while the queue is not empty
remove the head H
get H's predecessors
remove all predecessors already present in 'result'
remove all predecessors that have more heads and/or tails than according to specs
put the remaining predecessors back in the queue
It would be a bit tedious to create that Set for evey query that they will ask. As with HackerRank, can you edit the code so that you make this resultset static, i.e. so that you only need to create it once?
Last but by no means leasT;
see the 'determineSuccessors()' method in the HeadTail class. It says rhat when the number of Heads > 1 a successor would be HeadTail(head - 2, ...). Can you think of a situation where that is plain wrong?
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