/** * @file * @brief Implementation of the * [N-bonacci](http://oeis.org/wiki/N-bonacci_numbers) series * * @details * In general, in N-bonacci sequence, * we generate sum of preceding N numbers from the next term. * * For example, a 3-bonacci sequence is the following: * 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 24, 44, 81 * In this code we take N and M as input where M is the number of terms * to be printed of the N-bonacci series * * @author [Swastika Gupta](https://github.com/Swastyy) */ #include /// for assert #include /// for std::cout #include /// for std::vector /** * @namespace math * @brief Mathematical algorithms */ namespace math { /** * @namespace n_bonacci * @brief Functions for the [N-bonacci](http://oeis.org/wiki/N-bonacci_numbers) * implementation */ namespace n_bonacci { /** * @brief Finds the N-Bonacci series for the `n` parameter value and `m` * parameter terms * @param n is in the N-Bonacci series * @param m is the number of terms in the N-Bonacci sequence * @returns the n-bonacci sequence as vector array */ std::vector N_bonacci(const uint64_t &n, const uint64_t &m) { std::vector a( m, 0); // we create an array of size m filled with zeros if (m < n || n == 0) { return a; } a[n - 1] = 1; /// we initialise the (n-1)th term as 1 which is the sum of /// preceding N zeros if (n == m) { return a; } a[n] = 1; /// similarily the sum of preceding N zeros and the (N+1)th 1 is /// also 1 for (uint64_t i = n + 1; i < m; i++) { // this is an optimized solution that works in O(M) time and takes O(M) // extra space here we use the concept of the sliding window the current // term can be computed using the given formula a[i] = 2 * a[i - 1] - a[i - 1 - n]; } return a; } } // namespace n_bonacci } // namespace math /** * @brief Self-test implementations * @returns void */ static void test() { struct TestCase { const uint64_t n; const uint64_t m; const std::vector expected; TestCase(const uint64_t in_n, const uint64_t in_m, std::initializer_list data) : n(in_n), m(in_m), expected(data) { assert(data.size() == m); } }; const std::vector test_cases = { TestCase(0, 0, {}), TestCase(0, 1, {0}), TestCase(0, 2, {0, 0}), TestCase(1, 0, {}), TestCase(1, 1, {1}), TestCase(1, 2, {1, 1}), TestCase(1, 3, {1, 1, 1}), TestCase(5, 15, {0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 31, 61, 120, 236, 464}), TestCase( 6, 17, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 63, 125, 248, 492, 976}), TestCase(56, 15, {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0})}; for (const auto &tc : test_cases) { assert(math::n_bonacci::N_bonacci(tc.n, tc.m) == tc.expected); } std::cout << "passed" << std::endl; } /** * @brief Main function * @returns 0 on exit */ int main() { test(); // run self-test implementations return 0; }