i guess the no. of 1s in the binary representation of the number is the answer..for 6 its 2...
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 1:32 PM, cegprakash <cegprak...@gmail.com> wrote: > the length of the rope is l units. > I can only cut any rope into two halves. > > for example if the length of the rope is 8 and we need a length of > rope 6 > > we first cut into two halves and we get 4, 4 > now we cut any of the half again and we get 4,2,2 > > now we can merge 4 and 2 and form a rope of length 6. > > in this example we need a minimum of 2 cuts to get the length of rope > 6 from 8 > > assume that l is always a power of 2 and we need always a even length > of rope from it how to find the number of minimum cuts needed to get > the new rope?. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
