Coconuts, Revisited

FJNU.1688

Description
The short story titled Coconuts, by Ben Ames Williams, appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on October 9, 1926. The story tells about five men and a monkey who were shipwrecked on an island. They spent the first night gathering coconuts. During the night, one man woke up and decided to take his share of the coconuts. He divided them into five piles. One coconut was left over so he gave it to the monkey, then hid his share and went back to sleep.
Soon a second man woke up and did the same thing. After dividing the coconuts into five piles, one coconut was left over which he gave to the monkey. He then hid his share and went back to bed. The third, fourth, and fifth man followed exactly the same procedure. The next morning, after they all woke up, they divided the remaining coconuts into five equal shares. This time no coconuts were left over.
An obvious question is ``how many coconuts did they originally gather?" There are an infinite number of answers, but the lowest of these is 3,121. But that's not our problem here.
Suppose we turn the problem around. If we know the number of coconuts that were gathered, what is the maximum number of persons (and one monkey) that could have been shipwrecked if the same procedure could occur?

Input
The input will consist of a sequence of integers, each representing the number of coconuts gathered by a group of persons (and a monkey) that were shipwrecked. The sequence will be followed by a negative number.

Output
For each number , determine the largest number of persons who could have participated in the procedure described aboveof coconuts. Display the results similar to the manner shown below, in the Sample Output. There may be no solution for some of the input cases; if so, state that observation.

Sample Input
25
30
3121
-1

Sample Output
25 coconuts, 3 people and 1 monkey
30 coconuts, no solution
3121 coconuts, 5 people and 1 monkey 

My Program

#include < iostream >
using   namespace  std;

int  Search( int  n)
... {
    int i,j,x;
    for(i=10;i>1;i--)
    ...{
        x=n;j=i;
        while(j)
        ...{
            if((x-1)%i!=0)break;
            x-=(x-1)/i+1;j--;
        }
        if(j==0&&x%i==0)
            return i;
    }
    return 0;
}

int  main()
... {
    int c,p;
    while(cin>>c)
    ...{
        if(c==-1)
            break;
        cout<<c<<" coconuts, ";
        p=Search(c);
        if(p>0)
            cout<<p<<" people and 1 monkey"<<endl;
        else
            cout<<"no solution"<<endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

 

Source
North Central North America 1997

YOYO's Note:
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【题意简述】

有n个椰子（话说我一直以为应该是核桃……），p个人和一只猴子，
假设有某晚上 第一个人起来后把这些椰子分成p份，恰好多余一个给了猴子，自己藏了一份；
第二个人起来后又把剩下的椰子分成p份，恰好又多余一个给猴子，自己藏了一份……
这样p个人都分完后正好没有剩余，现已知n数，求满足条件的最大的p。

【粗略分析】

一直没注意是求最大的……
于是从2开始inc循环一直WA……
后来终于看到了determine the largest number of persons who could have participated in the procedure described aboveof coconuts这句话。。便从10起downto勒。。

【C++源代码】

#include < iostream >
using   namespace  std;

int  Search( int  n)
... {
    int i,j,x;
    for(i=10;i>1;i--)
    ...{
        x=n;j=i;
        while(j)
        ...{
            if((x-1)%i!=0)break;
            x-=(x-1)/i+1;j--;
        }
        if(j==0&&x%i==0)
            return i;
    }
    return 0;
}

int  main()
... {
    int c,p;
    while(cin>>c)
    ...{
        if(c==-1)
            break;
        cout<<c<<" coconuts, ";
        p=Search(c);
        if(p>0)
            cout<<p<<" people and 1 monkey"<<endl;
        else
            cout<<"no solution"<<endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

【注意事项】

※ 每个人后面要输出and 1 monkey
※有可能no solution
※ 没有1个人的情况，所以down到2就可以勒

【点评】

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