<<-DOC Consider a special family of Engineers and Doctors. This family has the following rules: Everybody has two children. The first child of an Engineer is an Engineer and the second child is a Doctor. The first child of a Doctor is a Doctor and the second child is an Engineer. All generations of Doctors and Engineers start with an Engineer. We can represent the situation using this diagram: E / \ E D / \ / \ E D D E / \ / \ / \ / \ E D D E D E E D Given the level and position of a person in the ancestor tree above, find the profession of the person. Note: in this tree first child is considered as left child, second - as right. Example For level = 3 and pos = 3, the output should be findProfession(level, pos) = "Doctor". Input/Output [time limit] 4000ms (rb) [input] integer level The level of a person in the ancestor tree, 1-based. Guaranteed constraints: 1 ≤ level ≤ 30. [input] integer pos The position of a person in the given level of ancestor tree, 1-based, counting from left to right. Guaranteed constraints: 1 ≤ pos ≤ 2(level - 1). [output] string Return Engineer or Doctor. http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find-profession-in-a-hypothetical-special-situation/ DOC describe "#find_profession" do # [e] # [e,d] # [e,d,d,e] # [e,d,d,e,d,e,e,d] # [e,d,d,e,d,e,e,d,d,e,e,d,e,d,d,e] # [e,d,d,e,d,e,e,d,d,e,e,d,e,d,d,e,d,e,e,d,e,d,d,e,e,d,d,e,d,e,e,d] def find_profession(level, position) return :Engineer if level == 1 parent_position = position.odd? ? (position + 1) / 2 : position / 2 parent = find_profession(level - 1, parent_position) position.odd? ? parent : parent == :Doctor ? :Engineer : :Doctor end def bits_for(n) #count = 0 #while n > 0 #n &= n - 1 #count += 1 #end #count n.to_s(2).count('1') end # [1] # [1,0] # [1,0,0,1] # [1,0,0,1,0,1,1,0] # [1,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,1,0,0,1] # [1,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,1,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,1,0,0,1,1,0,0,1,0,1,1,0] def find_profession(level, position) bits_for(position - 1).odd? ? :Doctor : :Engineer end def find_profession(level, position) (position - 1).to_s(2).count('1').odd? ? :Doctor : :Engineer end [ { level: 3, pos: 3, x: "Doctor" }, { level: 4, pos: 2, x: "Doctor" }, { level: 1, pos: 1, x: "Engineer" }, { level: 8, pos: 100, x: "Engineer" }, { level: 10, pos: 470, x: "Engineer" }, { level: 17, pos: 5921, x: "Doctor" }, { level: 20, pos: 171971, x: "Engineer" }, { level: 25, pos: 16777216, x: "Engineer" }, { level: 30, pos: 163126329, x: "Doctor" }, ].each do |x| it do expect(find_profession(x[:level], x[:pos])).to eql(x[:x].to_sym) end end end