Climb the stairs (brain friendly, not so cpu friendly)
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There's a staircase with N steps, and you can climb 1 or 2 steps at a time. | |
Given N, write a function that returns the number of unique ways you can | |
climb the staircase. The order of the steps matters. | |
For example, if N is 4, then there are 5 unique ways: | |
1, 1, 1, 1 | |
2, 1, 1 | |
1, 2, 1 | |
1, 1, 2 | |
2, 2 | |
What if, instead of being able to climb 1 or 2 steps at a time, you could | |
climb any number from a set of positive integers X? | |
For example, if X = {1, 3, 5}, you could climb 1, 3, or 5 steps at a time. | |
Generalize your function to take in X. | |
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def steps(x, n) | |
raw_tree = x.map { |i| [i] } | |
final_tree = [] | |
loop do | |
raw_tree, final_leaves = raw_tree | |
.each_with_object([]) { |leaf, tree| x.each { |i| tree << leaf.dup.push(i) } } | |
.delete_if { |leaf| leaf.inject(:+) > n } | |
.partition { |leaf| leaf.inject(:+) < n } | |
final_tree.concat final_leaves | |
break if raw_tree.empty? | |
end | |
final_tree | |
end | |
puts steps([1,2],4).to_s | |
puts steps([1,3,5],10).to_s |
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