leetcode 964. Least Operators to Express Number

Given a single positive integer x, we will write an expression of the form x (op1) x (op2) x (op3) x ... where each operator op1, op2, etc. is either addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division (+, -, *, or /).  For example, with x = 3, we might write 3 * 3 / 3 + 3 - 3 which is a value of 3.

When writing such an expression, we adhere to the following conventions:

1. The division operator (/) returns rational numbers.
2. There are no parentheses placed anywhere.
3. We use the usual order of operations: multiplication and division happens before addition and subtraction.
4. It's not allowed to use the unary negation operator (-).  For example, "x - x" is a valid expression as it only uses subtraction, but "-x + x" is not because it uses negation.

We would like to write an expression with the least number of operators such that the expression equals the given target.  Return the least number of operators used.

 

Example 1:

Input: x = 3, target = 19
Output: 5
Explanation: 3 * 3 + 3 * 3 + 3 / 3.  The expression contains 5 operations.

Example 2:

Input: x = 5, target = 501
Output: 8
Explanation: 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 - 5 * 5 * 5 + 5 / 5.  The expression contains 8 operations.

Example 3:

Input: x = 100, target = 100000000
Output: 3
Explanation: 100 * 100 * 100 * 100.  The expression contains 3 operations.

 

Note:

• 2 <= x <= 100
• 1 <= target <= 2 * 10^8

解题思路：

从题意中可以知道其实target就是以x为进制的数，所以就是求 target =  ；

所以从高位开始算；

class Solution {
public:
    int leastOpsExpressTarget(int x, int target) 
    {
        set<pair<int , int>> q ;//
        unordered_set<int> seen ;
        q.emplace(0 , target) ;
        while(!q.empty())
        {
            auto it = begin(q) ;
            int c = it->first , t = it->second ;
            q.erase(it) ;
            if(t == 0) return c - 1 ;
            if(seen.count(t)) continue ;
            seen.insert(t) ;
            int n = log(t) / log(x) , t1 = t - pow(x , n) , t2 = pow(x , n + 1) - t ;
            if(!seen.count(t1))
            {
                q.emplace(c + (n == 0 ? 2 : n) , t1) ;
            }
            if(!seen.count(t2))
            {
                q.emplace(c + n + 1 , t2) ;
            }
        }
        
        return -1 ;
    }
};