CPH003B-Editorial

PROBLEM LINK:

Practice

Author: Karan Malhotra

Tester Dushyant Singh , Deepansh Parmani

Editorialist: Karan Malhotra

DIFFICULTY:

EASY

PREREQUISITES:

Math,Bits

PROBLEM:

The problem basically asks to print the minimum count of positive integers , such that the sum of each (integer raised to the power 2) results in the given number N

QUICK EXPLANATION:

The answer is the number of set bits in N

EXPLANATION:

Every Natural Number can be represented as a sum of distinct powers of 2.Each set bit represents a distinct power.For eg - 5 (101) = 2^0 + 2^2 , the 0th and 2nd bit are set from left and the distinct powers are 1(2^0) & 4(2^2).

Many languages have built in functions to count the number of set bits.Other solutions also exist which involve manipulation of bits.Check solution for the same.

AUTHOR’S AND TESTER’S SOLUTIONS:

Author’s solution can be found here.