UVA 11384 - Help is needed for Dexter(递归)

Problem H

Help is needed for Dexter

Time Limit: 3 Second

 

Dexter is tired of Dee Dee. So he decided to keep Dee Dee busy in a game. The game he planned for her is quite easy to play but not easy to win at least not for Dee Dee. But Dexter does not have time to spend on this silly task, so he wants your help.

 

There will be a button, when it will be pushed a random number N will be chosen by computer. Then on screen there will be numbers from 1 to N. Dee Dee can choose any number of numbers from the numbers on the screen, and then she will command computer to subtract a positive number chosen by her (not necessarily on screen) from the selected numbers. Her objective will be to make all the numbers 0.

 

For example if N = 3, then on screen there will be 3 numbers on screen: 1, 2, 3. Say she now selects 1 and 2. Commands to subtract 1, then the numbers on the screen will be: 0, 1, 3. Then she selects 1 and 3 and commands to subtract 1. Now the numbers are 0, 0, 2. Now she subtracts 2 from 2 and all the numbers become 0.

 

Dexter is not so dumb to understand that this can be done very easily, so to make a twist he will give a limit L for each N and surely L will be as minimum as possible so that it is still possible to win within L moves. But Dexter does not have time to think how to determine L for each N, so he asks you to write a code which will take N as input and give L as output.

 

Input and Output:

Input consists of several lines each with N such that 1 ≤ N ≤ 1,000,000,000. Input will be terminated by end of file. For each N output L in separate lines.

 

SAMPLE INPUT	OUTPUT FOR SAMPLE INPUT
1 2 3	1 2 2

题意:给定1到n的序列，要求全部转换成0， 每次操作可以选择从序列中选择一个或多个整数，同时减去一个相同的正整数。

思路：找规律发现从中间开始分成两边，把大的那边同时减掉这样是最优的。

代码：

#include <stdio.h>

int n, ans;
int main() {
    while (~scanf("%d", &n)) {
	ans = 0;
	while (n) {
	    ans ++;
	    n /= 2;
	}
	printf("%d\n", ans);
    }
    return 0;
}