BINSTIRL - Binary Stirling Numbers
The Stirling number of the second kind S(n, m) stands for the number of ways to partition a set of n things into m nonempty subsets. For example, there are seven ways to split a four-element set into two parts: {1, 2, 3} u {4}, {1, 2, 4} u {3}, {1, 3, 4} u {2}, {2, 3, 4} u {1}, {1, 2} u {3, 4}, {1, 3} u {2, 4}, {1, 4} u {2, 3}.
There is a recurrence which allows you to compute S(n, m) for all m and n.
S(0, 0) = 1,
S(n, 0) = 0, for n > 0,
S(0, m) = 0, for m > 0,
S(n, m) = m*S(n-1, m) + S(n-1, m-1), for n, m > 0.
Your task is much "easier". Given integers n and m satisfying 1 <= m <= n, compute the parity of S(n, m), i.e. S(n, m) mod 2.
For instance, S(4, 2) mod 2 = 1.
Task
Write a program that:
- reads two positive integers n and m,
- computes S(n, m) mod 2,
- writes the result.
Input
The first line of the input contains exactly one positive integer d equal to the number of data sets, 1 <= d <= 200. The data sets follow.
Line i + 1 contains the i-th data set - exactly two integers ni and mi separated by a single space, 1 < = mi < = ni <= 109.
Output
The output should consist of exactly d lines, one line for each data set. Line i, 1 <= i < = d, should contain 0 or 1, the value of S(ni, mi) mod 2.
Example
Sample input: 1 4 2 Sample output: 1
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ankitsablok89:
2014-08-08 23:22:21
Learnt so much through this problem :)for further reading go to these links - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_numbers_of_the_second_kind and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle |
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j1k7_7(JaskamalKainth):
2014-07-12 11:00:31
O(1) |
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utkarsh agarwal:
2013-12-16 21:07:34
gives runtime error...whie code runs well on ideone.
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Parshant garg:
2013-08-04 04:58:02
what is answer for 0 1 my program give 1 and accepted |
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Mitch Schwartz:
2013-04-25 14:14:18
I don't know why so many people are leaving comments about how the solution can be found by searching the internet; I still remember the satisfaction I got from doing it on paper. |
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sachin kumar:
2012-10-06 10:39:51
it is showing SIGSEGV but it is working in ideone.com
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saibharath:
2011-01-24 16:59:03
plz provide some more test cases Last edit: 2011-01-24 16:59:21 |
Added by: | adrian |
Date: | 2004-07-02 |
Time limit: | 3s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All |
Resource: | ACM Central European Programming Contest, Warsaw 2001 |