[Guest]

Create a simple algorithm for this problem... You think it's to easy? Then do it in 5 minutes...

The Snail

A snail is at the bottom of a 6-foot well and wants to climb to the top. The snail can climb 3 feet while the sun is up, but slides down 1 foot at night while sleeping. The snail has a fatigue factor of 10%, which means that on each successive day the snail climbs 10% X 3 = 0.3 feet less than it did the previous day. (The distance lost to fatigue is always 10% of the first day's climbing distance.) On what day does the snail leave the well, i.e., what is the first day during which the snail's height exceeds 6 feet? (A day consists of a period of sunlight followed by a period of darkness.) As you can see from the following table, the snail leaves the well during the third day.

(Day) (Initial Height) (Distance Climbed) (Height After Climbing) (Height After Sliding)

1 0' 3' 3' 2'

2 2' 2.7' 4.7' 3.7'

3 3.7' 2.4' 6.1' -

Your job is to solve this problem in general. Depending on the parameters of the problem, the snail will eventually either leave the well or slide back to the bottom of the well. (In other words, the snail's height will exceed the height of the well or become negative.) You must find out which happens first and on what day.

Input

The input file contains one or more test cases, each on a line by itself. Each line contains four integers H, U, D, and F, separated by a single space. If H = 0 it signals the end of the input; otherwise, all four numbers will be between 1 and 100, inclusive. H is the height of the well in feet, U is the distance in feet that the snail can climb during the day, D is the distance in feet that the snail slides down during the night, and F is the fatigue factor expressed as a percentage. The snail never climbs a negative distance. If the fatigue factor drops the snail's climbing distance below zero, the snail does not climb at all that day. Regardless of how far the snail climbed, it always slides D feet at night.

Output

For each test case, output a line indicating whether the snail succeeded (left the well) or failed (slid back to the bottom) and on what day. Format the output exactly as shown in the example.

Sample Input

6 3 1 10

0 0 0 0

Sample Output

success on day 3

failure on day 2

[Guest]

One thing I don't get about the input, do you input all the numbers one at a time or all together separated by spaces?

[Guest]

http://anzapower.webs.com/Flash/SnailEval.swf

function toInt(str){

	var numA=new Array();

	var zero="0".charCodeAt(0);

	var num=0;

	var SL;

	var strNum;


	while(str.length>0){

		SL=str.indexOf(" ");

		num=0;

		if(SL==-1){

			strNum=str;

			str="";

		}else{

			strNum=str.substring(0,SL);

			str=str.substring(SL+1);

		}

		for(var i=0;i<strNum.length;i++){

			num*=10;

			num+=strNum.charCodeAt(i)-zero;

		}


		numA[numA.length]=num;

	}

	return numA;

}


function snailEval(str){

	var numA=toInt(str);

	var H=numA[0];

	var U=numA[1];

	var D=numA[2];

	var F=numA[3];

	if(numA==undefined||H*U*D*F==NaN||H*U*D*F==undefined||numA.length<4)

		return "Input Not Valid!";

	var FDrop=F*U/100;

	var pos=0;

	var day=1;

	pos+=U;

	if(pos>=H)

		return "Success at Day "+ day;


	pos-=D;

	if(pos<=0)

		return "Failure at Day "+ day;

	U-=FDrop;

	if(U<0)

		U=0;

	day++;

	while(pos>0&&pos<H){

		pos+=U;

		if(pos>=H)

			return "Success at Day "+ day;


		pos-=D;

		if(pos<=0)

			return "Failure at Day "+ day;

		U-=FDrop;

		if(U<0)

			U=0;

		day++;

	}


}

stop();

Hadn't had the time (or strength) to do much tests, if you get one wrong please tell me what the input was so I can investigate...

Also, if the input contains letters or non-number characters it won't show an error message, that's because if you'd look at the toInt() function it only takes the char's code and subtract from it "0"'s charcode...

[Guest]

http://anzapower.webs.com/Flash/SnailEval.swf

function toInt(str){

	var numA=new Array();

	var zero="0".charCodeAt(0);

	var num=0;

	var SL;

	var strNum;


	while(str.length>0){

		SL=str.indexOf(" ");

		num=0;

		if(SL==-1){

			strNum=str;

			str="";

		}else{

			strNum=str.substring(0,SL);

			str=str.substring(SL+1);

		}

		for(var i=0;i<strNum.length;i++){

			num*=10;

			num+=strNum.charCodeAt(i)-zero;

		}


		numA[numA.length]=num;

	}

	return numA;

}


function snailEval(str){

	var numA=toInt(str);

	var H=numA[0];

	var U=numA[1];

	var D=numA[2];

	var F=numA[3];

	if(numA==undefined||H*U*D*F==NaN||H*U*D*F==undefined||numA.length<4)

		return "Input Not Valid!";

	var FDrop=F*U/100;

	var pos=0;

	var day=1;

	pos+=U;

	if(pos>=H)

		return "Success at Day "+ day;


	pos-=D;

	if(pos<=0)

		return "Failure at Day "+ day;

	U-=FDrop;

	if(U<0)

		U=0;

	day++;

	while(pos>0&&pos<H){

		pos+=U;

		if(pos>=H)

			return "Success at Day "+ day;


		pos-=D;

		if(pos<=0)

			return "Failure at Day "+ day;

		U-=FDrop;

		if(U<0)

			U=0;

		day++;

	}


}

stop();

Hadn't had the time (or strength) to do much tests, if you get one wrong please tell me what the input was so I can investigate...

Also, if the input contains letters or non-number characters it won't show an error message, that's because if you'd look at the toInt() function it only takes the char's code and subtract from it "0"'s charcode...

Cool...but i was looking for a simpler algorithm, without codes, functions, etc...

[Guest]

http://anzapower.webs.com/Flash/SnailEval.swf

function toInt(str){

	var numA=new Array();

	var zero="0".charCodeAt(0);

	var num=0;

	var SL;

	var strNum;


	while(str.length>0){

		SL=str.indexOf(" ");

		num=0;

		if(SL==-1){

			strNum=str;

			str="";

		}else{

			strNum=str.substring(0,SL);

			str=str.substring(SL+1);

		}

		for(var i=0;i<strNum.length;i++){

			num*=10;

			num+=strNum.charCodeAt(i)-zero;

		}


		numA[numA.length]=num;

	}

	return numA;

}


function snailEval(str){

	var numA=toInt(str);

	var H=numA[0];

	var U=numA[1];

	var D=numA[2];

	var F=numA[3];

	if(numA==undefined||H*U*D*F==NaN||H*U*D*F==undefined||numA.length<4)

		return "Input Not Valid!";

	var FDrop=F*U/100;

	var pos=0;

	var day=1;

	pos+=U;

	if(pos>=H)

		return "Success at Day "+ day;


	pos-=D;

	if(pos<=0)

		return "Failure at Day "+ day;

	U-=FDrop;

	if(U<0)

		U=0;

	day++;

	while(pos>0&&pos<H){

		pos+=U;

		if(pos>=H)

			return "Success at Day "+ day;


		pos-=D;

		if(pos<=0)

			return "Failure at Day "+ day;

		U-=FDrop;

		if(U<0)

			U=0;

		day++;

	}


}

stop();

Hadn't had the time (or strength) to do much tests, if you get one wrong please tell me what the input was so I can investigate...

Also, if the input contains letters or non-number characters it won't show an error message, that's because if you'd look at the toInt() function it only takes the char's code and subtract from it "0"'s charcode...

Yes your code is good... i tested it with other sample data...

[Guest]

this wasn't very difficult.

H = float(input("height of the well "))

U = float(input("climbing distance "))

D = float(input("sliding distance "))

F = float(input("fatigue "))/100

snail = 0

day = 0

N = U

while snail >=0:

   day += 1

   snail += N

   N -=  U*F

   if snail < H:

      snail -= D

   else:

      break

if snail >0:

   print(day)

else:

   print("failure")

Edited August 15, 2010 by phillip1882