Daily Challenge #294 - Sum and GCD Practice

#challenge

Given the sum and greatest common divisor of two numbers, return those two numbers in ascending order. If the numbers do not exist, return -1 or your language's equivalent.

Examples

Given sum = 12 and gcd = 4...

solve(12,4) = [4,8]. The two numbers 4 and 8 sum to 12 and have a gcd of 4.

solve(12,5) = -1. No two numbers exist that sum to 12 and have gcd of 5.

solve(10,2) = [2,8]. Note that [4,6] is also a possibility but we pick the one with the lower first element: 2 < 4, so we take [2,8].

Tests

solve(12,4)
solve(16,8)
solve(21,7)

Good luck!

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Top comments (3)

'' • Oct 1 '20

If there is a combination, minimum number = gcd itself, the other number = sum - gcd

const solve = (sum,gcd) => (sum-gcd) % gcd ? -1 : [gcd,sum-gcd]

willsmart • Oct 1 '20

Well spotted!

peter279k • Sep 30 '20

Here is my simple solution with Python:

def solve(s,g):
    answer = []
    original_s = s
    while s % g == 0:
        if int(s / g) <= g:
            answer.append(g)
            break

        s = int(s / g)

    if s != original_s and len(answer) == 0:
        answer.append(g)

    if len(answer) == 0:
        return -1

    answer.append(original_s - answer[0])

    return tuple(answer)

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Daily Challenge #294 - Sum and GCD Practice

Examples

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