leetcode: Divide Two Integers

转载来源: http://www.cnblogs.com/panda_lin/archive/2013/10/30/divide_two_integers.html

Problem: Divide two integers without using multiplication, division and mod operator.

思路：

典型的二分法。以87除4举例， (4 * 2 = 8) => (8 * 2 = 16) => (16 * 2 = 32) => (32 * 2) => 64，因为64 * 2 = 128大于87，现在我们可以确定4 * 16 = 64小于87，那么再处理87 - 64 = 23，23除4的话用上面方法可以得到5，还余3，因为小于4，扔掉，所以最后结果是16 + 5 = 21。因为需要考虑溢出问题，所以先把数字转换为unsigned long long，最后转成int返回。

class Solution {
public:
    long long internalDivide(unsigned long long dividend, unsigned long long divisor) {
        if (dividend < divisor) {
            return 0;
        }       
        long long result = 1;
        unsigned long long tmp = divisor, left;        
        while (tmp <= dividend) {
            left = dividend - tmp;
            tmp <<= 1;           
            if (tmp > dividend) {
                break;
            }
            else {
                result <<= 1;
            }
        }       
        return result + internalDivide(left, divisor);
    }
    
    int divide(int dividend, int divisor) {
        unsigned long long _dividend = abs((long long)dividend), _divisor = abs((long long)divisor);
        bool positive = ((dividend >= 0) && (divisor > 0)) || ((dividend <= 0) && (divisor < 0)); 
        return positive ? internalDivide(_dividend, _divisor) : (-1) * internalDivide(_dividend, _divisor);
    }
};