How do you find which row and column does a number belongs to in Floyd Triangle?
1
2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45
46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55
For example,
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Note that n-th row ends with value n*(n+1)/2
. So you can make quadratic equation and solve it to get row number for given number k
n*(n+1)/2 = k
n^2 + n - 2*k = 0
D = 1 + 8*k
n_row = Ceil((-1 + Sqrt(D)) / 2) //round float value up
For example, for k=33 you can calculate
n_row = Ceil((-1 + Sqrt(265)) / 2) =
Ceil(7.639) =
8
Having n_row, find the last number of previous row and position of k in the current row
n_Column = 33 - n_row * (n_row - 1) / 2 =
33 - 28 =
5
Pseudocode for alternative method of row finding:
sum = 0
row = 0
while sum < k do
row++
sum = sum + row