Solution to Count-Factors by codility

28 Jul

Question: https://codility.com/demo/take-sample-test/count_factors

Question Name: Count-Factors or CountFactors

11 Replies to “Solution to Count-Factors by codility

  1. Hi Sheng! Thanks for share your solutions!
    In this one, I disagree, cause if N=1 the result should be 1 and in this solution return 0.
    Just that!

    • I agree with your conclusion “if N=1 the result should be 1”, but disagree with “this solution return 0”. Actually this solution will return 1, if the input is 1. Please refer to the line #11.

  2. When I run the C# version of your solution through Codility it fails timing on the last LARGE Number test case. As a result I modified it so that the multiplication isn`t performed for each loop in the while.

  3. Java solution

  4. C# Solution – 100%

  5. Result:
    100/100/100
    https://app.codility.com/demo/results/training97YW4B-RNP/

  6. My initial approach. I treated differently odd and even numbers. Of course, one can use sqrt and avoiding additional operations. But improving that way, gave me no difference in codility tests.

  7. I used same solution, although in Java. Only got 93% with timeout for extremely large numbers, like MAXINT. Hard to see how to improve on 0(sqaureroot(N)) time.

  8. Actually I see now the reason for the timeout error on large numbers. The line 4 check, candidate * candidate,<N, will fail when candidate * candidate goes over MAXINT, in which case it turns negative, continuing the loop. You have to add a check for when this happens,

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