Recently you must have experienced that when too many people use the BBS simultaneously, the net becomes very, very slow.
To put an end to this problem, the Sysop has developed a contingency scheme for times of peak load to cut off net access for some buildings of the university in a systematic, totally fair manner. Our university buildings were enumerated randomly from 1 ton. XWB is number 1, CaoGuangBiao (CGB) Building is number 2, and so on in a purely random order.
Then a number m would be picked at random, and BBS access would first be cut off in building 1 (clearly the fairest starting point) and then in everymth building after that, wrapping around to 1 after n, and ignoring buildings already cut off. For example, ifn=17 and m=5, net access would be cut off to the buildings in the order [1,6,11,16,5,12,2,9,17,10,4,15,14,3,8,13,7]. The problem is that it is clearly fairest to cut off CGB Building last (after all, this is where the best programmers come from), so for a given n, the random number m needs to be carefully chosen so that building 2 is the last building selected.
Your job is to write a program that will read in a number of buildings n and then determine the smallest integerm that will ensure that our CGB Building can surf the net while the rest of the university is cut off.
Input Specification
The input file will contain one or more lines, each line containing one integer n with 3 <= n < 150, representing the number of buildings in the university.Input is terminated by a value of zero (0) for n.
Output Specification
For each line of the input, print one line containing the integer m fulfilling the requirement specified above.Sample Input
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
0
Sample Output
5
2
4
3
11
2
3
8
16
import java.util.Scanner;
public class ZOJ_1088 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner s=new Scanner(System.in);
int n;
while((n=s.nextInt())!=0){
for(int i=2;;i++){
int k=0;
for(int j=2;j<n;j++){
k=(k+i)%j;
}
if(k==0){
System.out.println(i);
break;
}
}
}
}
}
/* 网上copy的问题算法
约瑟夫环问题的优化
无论是用链表实现还是用数组实现都有一个共同点:要模拟整个游戏过程,不仅程序写起来比较烦,而且时间复杂度高达O(nm),当n,m非常大(例如上百万,上千万)的时候,几乎是没有办法在短时间内出结果的。我们注意到原问题仅仅是要求出最后的胜利者的序号,而不是要读者模拟整个过程。因此如果要追求效率,就要打破常规,实施一点数学策略。
为了讨论方便,先把问题稍微改变一下,并不影响原意:
问题描述:n个人(编号0~(n-1)),从0开始报数,报到(m-1)的退出,剩下的人继续从0开始报数。求胜利者的编号。
我们知道第一个人(编号一定是m%n-1) 出列之后,剩下的n-1个人组成了一个新的约瑟夫环(以编号为k=m%n的人开始):
k k+1 k+2 ... n-2, n-1, 0, 1, 2, ... k-2
并且从k开始报0。
现在我们把他们的编号做一下转换:
k --> 0
k+1 --> 1
k+2 --> 2
...
...
k-2 --> n-2
k-1 --> n-1
变换后就完完全全成为了(n-1)个人报数的子问题,假如我们知道这个子问题的解:例如x是最终的胜利者,那么根据上面这个表把这个x变回去不刚好就是n个人情况的解吗?!!变回去的公式很简单,相信大家都可以推出来:x'=(x+k)%n
如何知道(n-1)个人报数的问题的解?对,只要知道(n-2)个人的解就行了。(n-2)个人的解呢?当然是先求(n-3)的情况 ---- 这显然就是一个倒推问题!好了,思路出来了,下面写递推公式:
令f[i]表示i个人玩游戏报m退出最后胜利者的编号,最后的结果自然是f[n]
递推公式
f[1]=0;
f[i]=(f[i-1]+m)%i; (i>1)
有了这个公式,我们要做的就是从1-n顺序算出f[i]的数值,最后结果是f[n]。因为实际生活中编号总是从1开始,我们输出f[n]+1
由于是逐级递推,不需要保存每个f[i],程序也是异常简单:
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
int n, m, i, s=0;
printf ("N M = "); scanf("%d%d", &n, &m);
for (i=2; i<=n; i++) s=(s+m)%i;
printf ("The winner is %d\n", s+1);
}
这个算法的时间复杂度为O(n),相对于模拟算法已经有了很大的提高。算n,m等于一百万,一千万的情况不是问题了。可见,适当地运用数学策略,不仅可以让编程变得简单,而且往往会成倍地提高算法执行效率。