POJ 1003 Hangover

Description

How far can you make a stack of cards overhang a table? If you have one card, you can create a maximum overhang of half a card length. (We’re assuming that the cards must be perpendicular to the table.) With two cards you can make the top card overhang the bottom one by half a card length, and the bottom one overhang the table by a third of a card length, for a total maximum overhang of 1/2 + 1/3 = 5/6 card lengths. In general you can make n cards overhang by 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + … + 1/(n + 1) card lengths, where the top card overhangs the second by 1/2, the second overhangs tha third by 1/3, the third overhangs the fourth by 1/4, etc., and the bottom card overhangs the table by 1/(n + 1). This is illustrated in the figure below.

Input

The input consists of one or more test cases, followed by a line containing the number 0.00 that signals the end of the input. Each test case is a single line containing a positive floating-point number c whose value is at least 0.01 and at most 5.20; c will contain exactly three digits.

Output

For each test case, output the minimum number of cards necessary to achieve an overhang of at least c card lengths. Use the exact output format shown in the examples.

Sample Input

1.00
3.71
0.04
5.19
0.00

Sample Output

3 card(s)
61 card(s)
1 card(s)
273 card(s)

// POJ1003 Hangover 
// Memory 244K
// Time   0MS

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int getCardsNum(double hangover, int cardsNum);
int main()
{
    int cardsNum = 0;
    double hangover;
    while ((cin>>hangover)&&hangover)
    {
        if (hangover > 0)
            cout << getCardsNum(hangover, cardsNum) << " card(s)" << endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

int getCardsNum(double hangover, int cardsNum)
{
    if (hangover <= 0)
        return cardsNum;
    if (hangover > 0)
        return getCardsNum(hangover - 1.0 / (cardsNum + 2),cardsNum+1);
}