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Greedy algorithm to solve operations required for answer
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package com.sensei.algorithms.numeric; | |
import java.util.Scanner; | |
public class OpSolverGreedy { | |
public static final double EPSILON = 0.005; | |
public static void main(String[] args) { | |
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); | |
int n = sc.nextInt(); | |
int a = sc.nextInt(); | |
int A[] = new int[n]; | |
for (int i=0; i<n; i++) { | |
A[i] = sc.nextInt(); | |
} | |
char ops[] = new char[n-1]; | |
double val = A[0]; | |
double[] deltas = new double[4]; | |
for (int i=1; i<n; i++) { | |
// Keys: 0 = add, 1 = sub, 2 = mul, 3 = div; | |
deltas[0] = Math.abs(val+A[i] - a); | |
deltas[1] = Math.abs(val-A[i] - a); | |
deltas[2] = Math.abs(val*A[i] - a); | |
if (A[i] != 0) deltas[3] = Math.abs(val/A[i] - a); | |
else deltas[3] = Double.MAX_VALUE; | |
// get min delta | |
int minDeltaIndex = 0; | |
for (int j=1; j<4; j++) { | |
if (deltas[j] < deltas[minDeltaIndex]) minDeltaIndex = j; | |
} | |
if (minDeltaIndex == 0) { val += A[i]; ops[i-1] = '+'; } | |
else if (minDeltaIndex == 1) { val -= A[i]; ops[i-1] = '-'; } | |
else if (minDeltaIndex == 2) { val *= A[i]; ops[i-1] = '*'; } | |
else { val /= A[i]; ops[i-1] = '/'; } | |
System.out.println("Best option at step " + i + " is " + ops[i-1]); | |
} | |
System.out.println("Ans is " + val); | |
for (int i=0; i<n; i++) { | |
System.out.print(A[i] + " "); | |
if (i != n-1) System.out.print(ops[i] + " "); | |
} | |
if (a-EPSILON <= val && a+EPSILON >= val) { | |
System.out.print("= " + a); | |
} | |
System.out.println(); | |
sc.close(); | |
} | |
} |
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