PKU ACM 1003

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.

 

Answer:

 

#include <iostream>
using std::cout ;
using std::cin ;
using std::endl ;

int main()
{
 float fenzi = 1.0 ;
 float a[100];
    float b = 0.0  ;
 int size = 0 ;
 int cards = 0 ;

 for(int i = 0 ; ; i++)
 {
  cin >> a[i] ;
  if(a[i] == 0.00)
  {
   break ;
  }
  size++ ;
 }
 
 for(int k = 0 ; k < size ; k++)
 {
  for(int j = 2 ; ; j++)
  {
   b += fenzi/j ;
   if(b > a[k])
   {
    cards = j-1 ;
    break ;
   }
  }
  b = 0.0 ;
        cout << cards << " card(s)" << endl ;
  cards = 0 ;
 }

 
 return 0 ;
}