yup :) On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Shalini Sah <shalinisah.luv4cod...@gmail.com > wrote:
> 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. > -- 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.
