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Posted 2020-09-30 hellowOOOrld

Initially on a notepad only one character ‘A‘ is present. You can perform two operations on this notepad for each step:

1. Copy All: You can copy all the characters present on the notepad (partial copy is not allowed).
2. Paste: You can paste the characters which are copied last time.

 

Given a number n. You have to get exactly n ‘A‘ on the notepad by performing the minimum number of steps permitted. Output the minimum number of steps to get n ‘A‘.

Example 1:

Input: 3
Output: 3
Explanation:
Intitally, we have one character ‘A‘.
In step 1, we use Copy All operation.
In step 2, we use Paste operation to get ‘AA‘.
In step 3, we use Paste operation to get ‘AAA‘.

 

Note:

1. The n will be in the range [1, 1000].

思路：

如果知道了i的结果，那么2×i的步骤只需在i的结果上加上2即可，一次复制，一次粘贴。同理3×i的结果为一次复制，两次粘贴，i的结果加上3。

int minSteps(int n)
{
  int step[1010];
  for(int i=0;i<1010;++i)step[i]= 1010;
  step[1] = 0;
  for(int i=1;i<=1000;i++)
  {
    int k =2;
    for(int j=i*2;j<=1000;j+=i)
    {
      step[j] = min(step[j],step[i]+k);
      k++;
    }
  }
  return step[n];  
 }