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Nth Fibonacci Number

Problem Description

Lucky numbers are subset of integers. Rather than going into much theory, let us see the process of arriving at lucky numbers, Take the set of integers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,…… First, delete every second number, we get following reduced set. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19,………… Now, delete every third number, we get 1, 3, 7, 9, 13, 15, 19,….…. Continue this process indefinitely…… Any number that does NOT get deleted due to above process is called “lucky”.

You are given a number N, you need to tell whether the number is lucky or not. If the number is lucky return 1 otherwise 0.

Examples

Example 1:

Input:
N = 5
Output: 0
Explanation: 5 is not a lucky number
as it gets deleted in the second
iteration.

Example 2:

Input:
N = 19
Output: 1
Explanation: 19 is a lucky number because
it does not get deleted throughout the process.

Your Task

You don't need to read input or print anything. You only need to complete the function isLucky() that takes N as parameter and returns either False if the N is not lucky else True.

Expected Time Complexity: O(sqrt(n))O(sqrt(n))

Expected Auxiliary Space: O(1)O(1) for iterative approach.

Constraints

  • 1 ≤ n ≤ 10^5

Problem Explanation

Lucky numbers are subset of integers. Rather than going into much theory, let us see the process of arriving at lucky numbers, Take the set of integers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,…… First, delete every second number, we get following reduced set. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19,………… Now, delete every third number, we get 1, 3, 7, 9, 13, 15, 19,….…. Continue this process indefinitely…… Any number that does NOT get deleted due to above process is called “lucky”.

You are given a number N, you need to tell whether the number is lucky or not. If the number is lucky return 1 otherwise 0.

Code Implementation

Written by @Ishitamukherjee2004
def is_lucky(N):
lucky_numbers = list(range(1, N + 1))
delete_step = 2
while delete_step <= len(lucky_numbers):
lucky_numbers = [num for i, num in enumerate(lucky_numbers) if (i + 1) % delete_step != 0]
delete_step += 1
return 1 if N in lucky_numbers else 0

Time Complexity

  • The iterative approach has a time complexity of O(n2)O(n^2).

Space Complexity

  • The space complexity is O(n)O(n) since we are using only a fixed amount of extra space.