DWITE Online Computer Programming Contest, October 2010, Problem 3
You are given a rectangular floor that is to be tiled with square tiles. The tiles come in a variety of sizes, but they all measure in some power of two: , , , , etc. A space can be tiled with of the smallest tile, but the minimum number of tiles required is only . Refer to the pattern below.
The input will contain 5 lines, a pair of integers , separated by a space.
The output will contain 5 lines, the minimum number of tiles necessary to exactly cover the by space.
Sample Input
10 5
1000 1001
21 13
9999 888
345 1277
Sample Output
14
1358
42
4065
2046
Problem Resource: DWITE
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Comments
y'all and your fancy recursion solutions :v :v