So there is a website named interviewstreet.com. Here we can find challenging programming problems. Unfortunately you have to be logged in to see the questions.
Here's a brief description of the problem I'm attempting to solve:
Find the no of positive integral solutions for the equations
(1/x) + (1/y) = 1/N!
(read 1 by n factorial) Print a single integer which is the no of positive integral solutions modulo 1000007.
For example, when N=3
, (x,y)
can be: (7,42)
, (9,18)
, (8,24)
, (12,12)
, (42,7)
, (18,9)
, (24,8)
. Or so I thought.
Help me please, especially you who have solved this problem. I have just coded for the problem Equations. There is something wrong with my algorithm, can I ask for output for the first 10 integers? i.e. N=2
, N=3
, N=4
... N=10
so that I can find out the flaw in my algorithm. Thanks :)
EDIT: Oh, please don't post solution code as it will ruin the fun for me and for people trying to solve this :)
My solutions was accepted by interview street. Firstly, my solutions wasn't accepted, but after saw @Reinardus Surya Pradhit post, i realized, if pair (x, y) will be count twice, so i change it a litter bit and got success I will not post my solution here, but i can tell you the test case for all variable from N = 3 -> N = 10 Here the result
N=3: 9
N=4: 21
N=5: 63
N=6: 135
N=7: 405
N=8: 675
N=9: 1215
N=10: 2295
My hint is: try to express N! in primes from like p1^q1 * p2^q2 * ... * pn^qn