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.
可看作等差数列求和
假设完成K层,一共n个,由等差数列求和公式有:
(1+k)*k/2 = n
一步步推导:
k+k*k = 2*n
k*k + k + 0.25 = 2*n + 0.25
(k + 0.5) ^ 2 = 2*n +0.25
k + 0.5 = sqrt(2*n + 0.25)
k = sqrt(2*n + 0.25) - 0.5
这里k是个浮点数,将其取为小于k的最大整数就可以
class Solution {
public :
int arrangeCoins(int n) {
return (int) (sqrt(2*(long)n+0.25) - 0.5);
}
}