can any one prove that Decimal number 3 when represented in binary is happy
no?
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Mahendra Kariya
<[email protected]>wrote:

> @Antoine: can u tell me ur user name on codejam. I would like to see your
> code.
> Regards,
> Mahendra Kariya
> http://www.mahendrakariya.blogspot.com
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Nzeyimana Antoine 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> You are right, you have to stop the loop at value when you already
>> have that one in chain(in order to avoid useless repetitons) or just
>> stop at a value equal to one(note that 1 has the same value in all
>> bases: 2 ... 9) . Then you have to check if a given
>> number(increamentally from 2 to max_int) has a happy chains in three
>> bases provided . This solved my large input in around 2.5 minutes
>> using Java on a 2.2GHz dual CPU, core2duo laptop, but I hope it should
>> be much less with other languages like C .
>> This problem was relatively easy for me to understand and solve
>> because I did a similar one in TopCoder(@least building chain of
>> digits square sum in base 10 ), but I didn't undertand the logic of 1C
>>  ; so my question is ' Is there any big influence from previous
>> exercises/contests or experiences to solve quickly these problems ?'.
>>
>> On 9/12/09, MntlChaos <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Why would you do that? It's happy if it ever reaches 1. If it gets
>> > into a different loop, it's unhappy. However, you are correct that 8
>> > is not happy in base 10: 8 => 64 => 52 => 29 => 85 => 89 => 145 => 42
>> > => 20 => 4 => 16 => 37 => 58 => 89, at which point we have a cycle (89
>> > appeared twice).
>> >
>> > But 7 IS happy in base 10: 7 => 49 => 97 => 130 => 10 => 1
>> >
>> > On Sep 12, 1:18 am, Mahendra Kariya <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> I guess in the first ques of Round 1A, we have to check only until the
>> sum
>> >> of squares of digits is not a single digit integer. Say, for sum
>> number,
>> >> if
>> >> we get the sum of square of digits 8, we stop there and declare it to
>> be
>> >> unhappy without doing 8*8 = 64 .
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Mahendra Kariyahttp://www.mahendrakariya.blogspot.com
>> > >
>> >
>>
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