2025-11-09 Daily Challenge
Today I have done leetcode's November LeetCoding Challenge with cpp.
November LeetCoding Challenge 9
Description
Count Operations to Obtain Zero
You are given two non-negative integers num1 and num2.
In one operation, if num1 >= num2, you must subtract num2 from num1, otherwise subtract num1 from num2.
- For example, if
num1 = 5andnum2 = 4, subtractnum2fromnum1, thus obtainingnum1 = 1andnum2 = 4. However, ifnum1 = 4andnum2 = 5, after one operation,num1 = 4andnum2 = 1.
Return the number of operations required to make either num1 = 0 or num2 = 0.
Example 1:
Input: num1 = 2, num2 = 3 Output: 3 Explanation: - Operation 1: num1 = 2, num2 = 3. Since num1 < num2, we subtract num1 from num2 and get num1 = 2, num2 = 3 - 2 = 1. - Operation 2: num1 = 2, num2 = 1. Since num1 > num2, we subtract num2 from num1. - Operation 3: num1 = 1, num2 = 1. Since num1 == num2, we subtract num2 from num1. Now num1 = 0 and num2 = 1. Since num1 == 0, we do not need to perform any further operations. So the total number of operations required is 3.
Example 2:
Input: num1 = 10, num2 = 10 Output: 1 Explanation: - Operation 1: num1 = 10, num2 = 10. Since num1 == num2, we subtract num2 from num1 and get num1 = 10 - 10 = 0. Now num1 = 0 and num2 = 10. Since num1 == 0, we are done. So the total number of operations required is 1.
Constraints:
0 <= num1, num2 <= 105
Solution
class Solution {
public:
int countOperations(int num1, int num2) {
if(!num1 || !num2) return 0;
return num1 / num2 + countOperations(num2, num1 % num2);
}
};
// Accepted
// 161/161 cases passed (0 ms)
// Your runtime beats 100 % of cpp submissions
// Your memory usage beats 40.19 % of cpp submissions (7.9 MB)