I believe in your compiler, int will be 2 bytes and long int will be 4
bytes. Check that once. If so, you can use long int instead of int
everywhere. That way you can store an integer in the order of 10^8.

On 16 May 2010 02:07, Aamir Khan <[email protected]> wrote:

> yeah i got my mistake thanks for that..
> but i don't understand how 10^8 can be saved in int..as int have range
> from -32767 to +32768....
> and one more thing to ask is that "int PD=1<<n" will be equivalent to
> 2^N but PD will definitely go out of range of int in that
> case..atleast in large output case...
>
>
> On May 14, 7:49 pm, Bharath Raghavendran <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I found one mistake : If b < PD, you are returning 0. Why is that?
> > Lets say you have 4 switches, PD = 16. If b = 15, the answer should be
> ON.
> >
> > Other than that, there are many ways you can improve your code.
> > 1.
> > dont use double. It will remove accuracy in many places. 10^8 will come
> > within 4 bytes (usually int suffices this. else use long int).
> >
> > 2.
> > To calculate 2^n, you can use the left shift operator. "int PD = 1<<n"
> will
> > put 2^n into PD.
> >
> > 3.
> > To check if b gives reminder PD -1, you don't need to run a loop. You can
> do
> > "if (b%PD == PD-1)"
> >
> > On 13 May 2010 10:47, Aamir Khan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > #include <cmath>
> > > #include <cstdio>
> > > #include <iostream>
> > > using namespace std;
> >
> > > #define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
> > > #define For(i,a,b) for (long i(a),_b(b); i <= _b; ++i)
> >
> > > char buf[1024*1024];
> >
> > > bool isEven(long a,long b)
> > > {       bool result=0;
> > >       if(b%2==0)
> > >               result=0;
> > >       else
> > >               {
> > >                double ad=0.00;
> > >                for(int j=0;j<=30;j++)
> > >               {
> > >               if(int(ad)==a)
> > >               { break;}
> > >               ad=ad+1.00;
> > >               }
> > >                       long PD=long(pow(2.00,ad));
> > >                       if(b<PD)
> > >                       result=0;
> >
> > >                       else
> > >                       {
> > >                       for(long i=PD;i<=100000000;i+=PD)
> > >                        {
> > >                        if(b==i-1)
> > >                          {
> > >                          result=1;
> > >                          break;
> > >                          }
> > >                        }
> > >                       }
> > >                       }
> > >       return result;
> > > }
> >
> > > int main() {
> > >       freopen("A-large.in", "rt", stdin);
> > >       freopen("output_Snapper_Chain.txt", "wt", stdout);
> >
> > >   gets(buf);
> > >   long size=atoi(buf);
> >
> > >       For(test, 1, size)
> > >  {
> > >  //    cout<<"No. of loops"<<test;
> > >       long N;
> > >       long K;
> >
> > >       scanf("%d%d", &N, &K);
> > > //              cout<<"N"<<N<<"K"<<K;
> >
> > >       bool res=isEven(N,K);
> > >           if(res)
> > >               printf("Case #%d: ON\n", test);
> > >               else
> > >               printf("Case #%d: OFF\n", test);
> > >   }
> > >       exit(0);
> > > }
> >
> > >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > SNAPPER CHAIN:
> > > Can anybody tell me the errors in the code.....i have done this
> > > problem using the simple concept which i know....it is not giving
> > > right output....
> >
> > > Brief explanation of code:
> > > i have first converted the long taken from file into the double using
> > > for loop..then using pow function i have found 2^N and then found
> > > whether k==2^N-1;
> >
> > > _____
> > > Aamir
> >
> > > --
> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
> Groups
> > > "google-codejam" group.> To post to this group, send email
> [email protected].
> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to>
> [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]>
> <google-code%[email protected]<google-code%[email protected]>
> >
> > > .
> > > For more options, visit this group at
> > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en.
> >
> > --
> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "google-codejam" group.To post to this group, send email
> [email protected] unsubscribe from this group, send email
> [email protected]<togoogle-code%[email protected]>
> .
> > For more options, visit this group athttp://
> groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en.
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "google-codejam" group.
> To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]>
> .
> For more options, visit this group at
> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en.
>
>

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"google-codejam" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
[email protected].
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en.

Reply via email to