Instead of trying every floor, this DP counts how many floors can be distinguished with a given number of moves and eggs..
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 | from bisect import bisect_left # Egg Dropping by Number of Moves in Python # # PURPOSE # Instead of trying every floor, this DP counts how many floors can be distinguished with a # given number of moves and eggs. # # METHOD # For each move, update egg counts downward using # reachable[e]=reachable[e]+reachable[e-1]+1. Stop when the available egg count covers all # floors. # # COMPLEXITY # O(eggs * moves) time and O(eggs) space, where moves is the answer. # # CONTRACT # 1<=eggs<=30, 0<=floors<=1000000. Returns the minimum worst-case number of drops. # Reachability is capped at floors to avoid unnecessary growth. # Public APIs infer array lengths except in C, which accepts pointer/length pairs. Vertex # counts and matrix dimensions remain explicit. Arrays must contain signed 32-bit integers. # Sorted order, correct tree topology, and caller-owned data-structure invariants are # preconditions; checking them on every query would change query complexity. # Scalar and shape checks are included. Value-range checks are included where needed to # prevent invalid indexing or nontermination. Allocation sizes are capped at 4,000,000 # workspace entries. Arithmetic outside Python raises an error on 32-bit overflow; Python # uses arbitrary precision. Native allocation failures propagate. In-place outputs may be # partly updated after arithmetic failure. These are single-threaded, in-memory # implementations. # # LANGUAGE DETAILS # Python 3.9+: automatic lengths, native lists, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and # bisect_left for LIS. Invalid scalar/shape inputs raise ValueError. Integer element types # and sorted/tree invariants remain caller preconditions. # # EXAMPLE # Expected return: 14. # Run: python example.py # Tests for this exact source artifact run before publication. The accompanying source # archive includes unit cases, runtime results, and source hashes. def alg_require(condition): if not condition: raise ValueError("invalid algorithm input; see contract") def alg_size(n): alg_require(0 <= n <= 4000000) return n def egg_drop(eggs: int, floors: int) -> int: alg_require(type(eggs) is int and -2147483648 <= eggs <= 2147483647) alg_require(type(floors) is int and -2147483648 <= floors <= 2147483647) alg_require(eggs >= 1 and eggs <= 30 and (floors >= 0) and (floors <= 1000000)) reachable: list[int] = [0] * alg_size(eggs + 1) moves: int = 0 e: int = 0 while reachable[eggs] < floors: moves += 1 e = eggs while e > 0: reachable[e] = min(floors, reachable[e] + reachable[e - 1] + 1) e -= 1 return moves eggs = 2 floors = 100 result = egg_drop(eggs, floors) print(result) |