a question about pascal triangle

[rambo126]

can you help me about the Pascal triangle with depth (number of rows) 7 as follows:

1

1 1

1 2 1

1 3 3 1

1 4 6 4 1

1 5 10 10 5 1

1 6 15 20 15 6 1

how can i do that with using loops in java??

[JosAH]

can you help me about the Pascal triangle with depth (number of rows) 7 as follows:

1

1 1

1 2 1

1 3 3 1

1 4 6 4 1

1 5 10 10 5 1

1 6 15 20 15 6 1

how can i do that with using loops in java??

You can generate the next row given the current row; let the number of numbers in the current row be n and let 'r' be an array representing the current row. From right to left do this:

r[n]= 1;
for (int i= n; --i > 0; r[i]+= r[i-1]);

You have to figure out that for-loop because it's a complete give away.

kind regards,

Jos

[rambo126]

thanks jos but how can i do without using array?

[JosAH]

thanks jos but how can i do without using array?

Why don't you want to use an array? A single array of the size equal to the height of the triangle is enough and the computations are extremely cheap. The alternative if that use calculate C(n, k) for each element in row n, element k but that would be much more expensive and involves quite a bit of cleverness to circumvent the obvious limit of 13 (13! is the max number you can store in an int).

kind regards,

Jos

[rambo126]

i want to do it by using loops because i do not have enough information about arrays and also the question asks me solve the problem by using loops.. You said: The alternative if that use calculate C(n, k) for each element in row n, element k. Could you clarify this?

[pbrockway2]

See for example the Wikipedia article on Combination.

[rambo126]

import java.util.Scanner;

	public class Lab05c{

		

   public static void main(String args[]){
	int m, n, f, mf, nf, nmf, k, result, i;

     int maxRow=6;

     for( n =0;n<=maxRow;n++){
	k=n;
	result=1;
	for(i=2;i<=k;i++)

		result=result*i

	nf=result;

	k=m=0;
	result=1;
	for(i=2;i<=k;i++)

		result=result*i;

	mf=result;

	k=n-m;
	result=1;
	for(i=2;i<=k;i++)
		result=result*i;

	nmf=result;

	f= nf/(mf*nmf);

	for( m=0;m<=n;m++)

		System.out.print(f);





      System.out.println();
    }
 }



}

i did like this and the output of this:
1
11
111
1111
11111
111111

what do i need to have right result? can you help me

Moderator Edit: code tags added

[Fubarable]

Sorry, but it's kind of hard to follow your code. Myself, if this were my project, I'd subdivide things by creating a small method that calculated the factorial of a number, n! = n * (n -1) * (n - 2)...., say

   public static int factorial(int n) {
      if (n == 0) {
         return 1;
      }
      //... more code goes here. :-)
   }

And then again, using pbrockway's reference, create a very short method that calculates the combination:

   public static int combination(int n, int k) {
      // only one line of code here that uses the factorial method above a few times 
   }

And then call the combination method inside of a nested for loop, and you're done.



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