UVa 10916 Factstone Benchmark

Problem B: Factstone Benchmark

Amtel has announced that it will release a 128-bit computer chip by 2010, a 256-bit computer by 2020, and so on, continuing its strategy of doubling the word-size every ten years. (Amtel released a 64-bit computer in 2000, a 32-bit computer in 1990, a 16-bit computer in 1980, an 8-bit computer in 1970, and a 4-bit computer, its first, in 1960.)

Amtel will use a new benchmark - the Factstone - to advertise the vastly improved capacity of its new chips. The Factstone rating is defined to be the largest integer n such that n! can be represented as an unsigned integer in a computer word.

Given a year 1960 ≤ y ≤ 2160, what will be the Factstone rating of Amtel's most recently released chip?

There are several test cases. For each test case, there is one line of input containing y. A line containing 0 follows the last test case. For each test case, output a line giving the Factstone rating.

Sample Input

1960
1981
0

Output for Sample Input

3
8

给出年份，先找到对应的计算机位数，然后找到能使n!最大（小于计算机可表示的最大数）的n的值

数字大的可怕。

得到公式n!<=2^k-1；两边同时log。

这时候用log效果是很可观的。

代码如下：

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
int a[22]={4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192,16384,32768,32768*2,32768*4,32768*8,32768*16,32768*32,32768*64,32768*128,32768*256};
int main(void)
{
    double t;
    int i,y;
    while(scanf("%d",&y)!=EOF&&y)
    {
     y=a[(y-1960)/10];
     for(i=1,t=0.0;t<y*log(2);i++)    
      t+=log(i);
     printf("%d\n",i-2);
    }
    return 0;
}