441. 硬币楼梯 Arranging Coins

Posted 2020-09-01 Long Long Journey

You have a total of n coins that you want to form in a staircase shape, where every k-th row must have exactly k coins.

Given n, find the total number of full staircase rows that can be formed.

n is a non-negative integer and fits within the range of a 32-bit signed integer.

Example 1:

n = 5

The coins can form the following rows:
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Because the 3rd row is incomplete, we return 2.

Example 2:

n = 8

The coins can form the following rows:
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Because the 4th row is incomplete, we return 3.

题意：给出n，返回可以组成的完整楼梯的层数

sum = (1+x)*x/2

这里就是要求 sum <= n 了。我们反过来求层数x。如果直接开方来求会存在错误，必须因式分解求得准确的x值：

(1+x)*x/2 <= n 
x + x*x <= 2*n 
4*x*x + 4*x <= 8*n 
(2*x + 1)*(2*x + 1) - 1 <= 8*n 
x <= (sqrt(8*n + 1) - 1) / 2

其中Math.sqrt()是求平方根的函数。这样我们就求出了x，最后要记得强制转换为int型数。

static public int ArrangingCoins(int n) {
	return (int)((Math.Sqrt(8 * (long)n + 1) - 1) / 2);
}

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