When I read this problem, I could not be able to find out what this
problem meant. Then I visit the Steven Halim's
Websites
and found the following information.
�This problem is actually simple. What the
problem wants us to do is:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Your house number = 6
When you walk to the left to the end of the street (always until
you encounter 1 - The leftmost house), you sum their numbers�.
5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 15. Then you walk to the right and do the
same thing, 7+8=15
You found out that both values are the same. Output 6 (Your
house number), and 8 (The rightmost house number matching this
criteria)
To do this, calculate "Sum of left"
and "Sum of right", using Arithmetic Progression
formula
Then use precalc (Pre Calculation)�
For more details visit http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~stevenha/programming/acmoj.html |