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CANTON - Count on Cantor |
One of the famous proofs of modern mathematics is Georg Cantor's demonstration that the set of rational numbers is enumerable. The proof works by using an explicit enumeration of rational numbers as shown in the diagram below.
1/1 1/2 1/3 1/4 1/5 ... 2/1 2/2 2/3 2/4 3/1 3/2 3/3 4/1 4/2 5/1
In the above diagram, the first term is 1/1, the second term is 1/2, the third term is 2/1, the fourth term is 3/1, the fifth term is 2/2, and so on.
Input
The input starts with a line containing a single integer t <= 20, the number of test cases. t test cases follow.
Then, it contains a single number per line.
Output
You are to write a program that will read a list of numbers in the range from 1 to 10^7 and will print for each number the corresponding term in Cantor's enumeration as given below.
Example
Input: 3 3 14 7 Output: TERM 3 IS 2/1 TERM 14 IS 2/4 TERM 7 IS 1/4
Added by: | Thanh-Vy Hua |
Date: | 2005-02-27 |
Time limit: | 5s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: NODEJS PERL6 VB.NET |
Resource: | ACM South Eastern European Region 2004 |
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2011-05-30 19:39:32 Santiago Palacio
What do you not understand from the diagram? they're just going through the diagram in zig-zag |
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2011-02-09 06:46:29 HELLO
diagram is not clear |
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2010-02-15 08:33:29 Ales Tamchyna
@Sai Ganesh 2/17 is the 17-th element in the 2nd row, 3/19 is the 19-th element in the 3rd row. |
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2009-12-01 13:45:25 Shanky
You can view above diag. as pascal's triangle and then find the nth term by moving in an zigzag manner |
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2009-10-04 12:33:58 Sai Ganesh
The given diagram is not very clear..does the above diagram mean there is no number for fractions like 2/17 , 3/19 and so on? |