You have a total of n coins that you want to form in a staircase shape, where every k-th row must have exactly kcoins.
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: ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ Because the 3rd row is incomplete, we return 2.
Example 2:
n = 8 The coins can form the following rows: ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ Because the 4th row is incomplete, we return 3.
其实有规律可循,如果将硬币返回恰好满足的行数,则硬币需要1,3,6,10,15...即硬币的总数满足x(x+1) = 2n
只要求解这个方程中的x,也就是行数即可。
class Solution { public: int arrangeCoins(int n) { return sqrt(static_cast<double>(n) * 2 + 0.25) - 0.5; } }; // 25 ms