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.
Input
Output
Sample Input
1.00 3.71 0.04 5.19 0.00
Sample Output
3 card(s) 61 card(s) 1 card(s) 273 card(s)
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
#define delta 1e-8
#define MAX 300
int main()
{
double len[MAX];
int total,l,r,mid;
double x;
len[0] = 0.0;
for(total=1;(len[total-1]-5.20)<-delta;total++)
len[total] = len[total-1] + 1.0/(total+1); //直接计算出截止长度不超过5.20所需最少卡片数
while(cin>>x&&x>delta)
{
l = 0,r = total;
while((l+1)<r) //二分查找
{
mid = (l+r)/2;
if((len[mid]-x)<-delta)
l = mid;
else
r = mid;
}
cout<<r<<" card(s)"<<endl; //输出至少伸出x长度最少卡片数
}
return 0;
}