You have a total of n coins that you want to form in a staircase shape, where every k-th row must have exactly k coins.
Given n, find the total number of full staircase rows that can be formed.
n is a non-negative integer and fits within the range of a 32-bit signed integer.
Example 1:
n = 5
The coins can form the following rows:
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Because the 3rd row is incomplete, we return 2.
Example 2:
n = 8
The coins can form the following rows:
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Because the 4th row is incomplete, we return 3.
方法一:
class Solution {
public:
int arrangeCoins(int n) {
int i;
for (i=1; n>=0; ++i){
n -= i;
}
return i - 2;
}
};
方法二:
利用等差数列求和公式,并且注意要先将n转化为double类型
class Solution {
public:
int arrangeCoins(int n) {
return (-1 + sqrt(8 * (double)n + 1) )/ 2;
}
};