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Re: number of ways to..ehh, i hate counting ways

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Oct 10th, 2008

Well, it's a good time to change notes:

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/// Must be coin[0] < coin[1] < ... < coin[n-1]
int NumberOfWays(int sum, const int coin[], int n) {
    if (0 >-- n)
        return 0;
    int high = coin[n];
    if (n == 0)
        return sum % high? 0: 1;
    int k = sum / high;
    int ways = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i <= k; ++i, sum -= high) {
        ways += NumberOfWays(sum, coin, n);
    }
    return ways;
}
 
int main()
{
    int coin[] = { 1, 2, 5, 25 };
    int n = sizeof coin / sizeof *coin;
    int ways, sum = 100;
    ways = NumberOfWays(sum,coin,n);
    std::cout << ways << std::endl;
    return 0;
}
// Output: 1042. Heaps of ways!..
/// Must be coin[0] < coin[1] < ... < coin[n-1]
int NumberOfWays(int sum, const int coin[], int n) {
    if (0 >-- n)
        return 0;
    int high = coin[n];
    if (n == 0)
        return sum % high? 0: 1;
    int k = sum / high;
    int ways = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i <= k; ++i, sum -= high) {
        ways += NumberOfWays(sum, coin, n);
    }
    return ways;
}

int main()
{
    int coin[] = { 1, 2, 5, 25 };
    int n = sizeof coin / sizeof *coin;
    int ways, sum = 100;
    ways = NumberOfWays(sum,coin,n);
    std::cout << ways << std::endl;
    return 0;
}
// Output: 1042. Heaps of ways!..

Absolutely supersonic code

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Re: number of ways to..ehh, i hate counting ways

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Oct 10th, 2008

hmm, okay...that's fast... reps to you!
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umm it's not that fast, i see now, mine is alot faster, you haven't optimized the recursion, so you're making calls that aren't needed... mine goes fast for 10000, your is slow. :O?

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Oct 10th, 2008

OK, your code is faster.
No need in true recursion in this algorithm.
But I'm too lazy to do that

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Re: number of ways to..ehh, i hate counting ways

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Oct 10th, 2008

hehe, i'm lazy too, but i still wanna speed it up. found another way, without recursion, the idea is: no need to check for 1's, they always give 1, and 2's always give ( n/2 )+1...
still too slow

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Oct 10th, 2008

It's a brutal force method to enumerate all deals.
Let this tin with silicic stuffing works...

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Oct 10th, 2008

do you think the same thing when discussing algorithms with O(2^n) time complexity? poor tin cans would struggle for centuries if n was...say 100.

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Of course, NP-complexity is a barrier. To be up against a blank wall?
But this alg is not k power n complexity (polynomial only).
Be careful with combinatory problems - that's all

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Re: number of ways to..ehh, i hate counting ways

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Originally Posted by gregorynoob

hmm, well now i've implemented it, but it's so damn slow... it should work fast for 100k atleast... here's my implementation:
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#include <cstdio>
#include <cstring>
#include <algorithm>
#define MOD 100000
using namespace std;
 
const int coins[] = {1, 2, 5, 25};
 
int n, dp[100000][5];
 
int rec(int n, int m) {
    int ret = 0; if(dp[n][m]) return dp[n][m];
    if(m == 0 || n == 0) return  (dp[n][m] = 1);
    if(n < coins[m]) return (rec(n, m-1)); 
    for(int i = 0; i*coins[m] <= n; ++i) {
         ret = ((ret%MOD) + (rec(n-i*coins[m], m-1)%MOD))%MOD;
    }
    return (dp[n][m] = ret);
}
 
int main( void )
{
    scanf("%d", &n);
 
    memset(dp, 0, sizeof dp);
    printf("%d\n", rec(n, 3)%MOD);
 
    return 0;
}
#include <cstdio> #include <cstring> #include <algorithm> #define MOD 100000 using namespace std; const int coins[] = {1, 2, 5, 25}; int n, dp[100000][5]; int rec(int n, int m) { int ret = 0; if(dp[n][m]) return dp[n][m]; if(m == 0 || n == 0) return (dp[n][m] = 1); if(n < coins[m]) return (rec(n, m-1)); for(int i = 0; i*coins[m] <= n; ++i) { ret = ((ret%MOD) + (rec(n-i*coins[m], m-1)%MOD))%MOD; } return (dp[n][m] = ret); } int main( void ) { scanf("%d", &n); memset(dp, 0, sizeof dp); printf("%d\n", rec(n, 3)%MOD); return 0; }
i guess my implementation is stupid in some way... or can it run no faster?

Take all of the % MOD lines out of there. They give you bad results (i.e. there are 43 ways to make 515) and they slow the program down.

Second, it's not an issue here because the smallest "coin" is 1, but this line is a problem if the smallest "coin" is, say, 2:

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if(m == 0 || n == 0) return  (dp[n][m] = 1);
if(m == 0 || n == 0) return  (dp[n][m] = 1);

If coins[] = {2, 3, 5, 25} or something similar where the smallest element is not 1, ret (1, 0) would equal 0 (no way to to make 1 from {2, 3, 5, 25}). Thus if this algorithm is meant to cover all coins arrays, that line would need to change since dp[n][0] sometimes will equal 0 and sometimes will equal 1 for varying n values. So if you want to allow for that, you'd also need to set the array with memset to some negative number rather than 0 ahead of time if you are checking to see whether the array value has been filled and you allow the smallest coin to be greater than one.