The Snail |
A snail is at the bottom of a 6-foot well and wants to climb to the top.The snail can climb 3 feetwhile the sun is up, but slides down 1 foot at night while sleeping.The snail has a fatigue factorof 10%, which means that on each successive day the snail climbs10% 3 = 0.3 feet less thanit did the previous day. (The distance lost to fatigue is always 10% of thefirst day's climbingdistance.) On what day does the snail leave the well, i.e., what is the firstday during whichthe snail's height exceeds 6 feet? (A day consists of a period of sunlightfollowed by a period ofdarkness.) As you can see from the following table, the snail leaves the wellduring the third day.
Day | Initial Height | Distance Climbed | Height After Climbing | Height After Sliding |
1 | 0' | 3' | 3' | 2' |
2 | 2' | 2.7' | 4.7' | 3.7' |
3 | 3.7' | 2.4' | 6.1' | - |
Your job is to solve this problem in general. Depending on the parametersof the problem, thesnail will eventually either leave the well or slide back to the bottom ofthe well. (In other words,the snail's height will exceed the height of the well or become negative.)You must find out whichhappens first and on what day.
For each test case, output a line indicating whether the snail succeeded(left the well) or failed(slid back to the bottom) and on what day. Format the output exactly as shown in the example.
6 3 1 10 10 2 1 50 50 5 3 14 50 6 4 1 50 6 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
success on day 3 failure on day 4 failure on day 7 failure on day 68 success on day 20 failure on day 2#include <cstdio> int main() { double H, U, D, F; while (scanf("%lf%lf%lf%lf", &H, &U, &D, &F) && (H || U || D || F)) { double height = 0, down = U * F / 100.0; int count = 1; while (1) { if (U > 0) height += U; if (height > H) { printf("success on day %d\n", count); break; } height -= D, U -= down; if (height < 0 ) { printf("failure on day %d\n", count); break; } count++; } } return 0; }