Total number of non-decreasing numbers with n digits - GeeksforGeeks
A number is non-decreasing if every digit (except the first one) is greater than or equal to previous digit. For example, 223, 4455567, 899, are non-decreasing numbers.
So, given the number of digits n, you are required to find the count of total non-decreasing numbers with n digits.
A number is non-decreasing if every digit (except the first one) is greater than or equal to previous digit. For example, 223, 4455567, 899, are non-decreasing numbers.
So, given the number of digits n, you are required to find the count of total non-decreasing numbers with n digits.
One way to look at the problem is, count of numbers is equal to count n digit number ending with 9 plus count of ending with digit 8 plus count for 7 and so on. How to get count ending with a particular digit? We can recur for n-1 length and digits smaller than or equal to the last digit. So below is recursive formula.
Count of n digit numbers = (Count of (n-1) digit numbers Ending with digit 9) +
(Count of (n-1) digit numbers Ending with digit 8) +
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(Count of (n-1) digit numbers Ending with digit 0)
Let count ending with digit ‘d’ and length n be count(n, d)
count(n, d) = ∑ (count(n-1, i)) where i varies from 0 to d Total count = ∑ count(n-1, d) where d varies from 0 to n-1
long long int countNonDecreasing(int n){ // dp[i][j] contains total count of non decreasing // numbers ending with digit i and of length j long long int dp[10][n+1]; memset(dp, 0, sizeof dp); // Fill table for non decreasing numbers of length 1 // Base cases 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) dp[i][1] = 1; // Fill the table in bottom-up manner for (int digit = 0; digit <= 9; digit++) { // Compute total numbers of non decreasing // numbers of length 'len' for (int len = 2; len <= n; len++) { // sum of all numbers of length of len-1 // in which last digit x is <= 'digit' for (int x = 0; x <= digit; x++) dp[digit][len] += dp[x][len-1]; } } long long int count = 0; // There total nondecreasing numbers of length n // wiint be dp[0][n] + dp[1][n] ..+ dp[9][n] for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) count += dp[i][n]; return count;}
Another method is based on below direct formula
Count of non-decreasing numbers with n digits =
N*(N+1)/2*(N+2)/3* ....*(N+n-1)/n
Where N = 10
long long int countNonDecreasing(int n){ int N = 10; // Compute value of N*(N+1)/2*(N+2)/3* ....*(N+n-1)/n long long count = 1; for (int i=1; i<=n; i++) { count *= (N+i-1); count /= i; } return count;}For n = 1, the value is N from formula.
Which is true as for n = 1, we have all single digit
numbers, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
For n = 2, the value is N(N+1)/2 from formula
We can have N numbers beginning with 0, (N-1) numbers
beginning with 1, and so on.
So sum is N + (N-1) + .... + 1 = N(N+1)/2
For n = 3, the value is N(N+1)/2(N+2)/3 from formula
We can have N(N+1)/2 numbers beginning with 0, (N-1)N/2
numbers beginning with 1 (Note that when we begin with 1,
we have N-1 digits left to consider for remaining places),
(N-2)(N-1)/2 beginning with 2, and so on.
Count = N(N+1)/2 + (N-1)N/2 + (N-2)(N-1)/2 +
(N-3)(N-2)/2 .... 3 + 1
[Combining first 2 terms, next 2 terms and so on]
= 1/2[N2 + (N-2)2 + .... 4]
= N*(N+1)*(N+2)/6 [Refer this , putting n=N/2 in the
even sum formula]
For general n digit case, we can apply Mathematical Induction. The count would be equal to count n-1 digit beginning with 0, i.e., N*(N+1)/2*(N+2)/3* ….*(N+n-1-1)/(n-1). Plus count of n-1 digit numbers beginning with 1, i.e., (N-1)*(N)/2*(N+1)/3* ….*(N-1+n-1-1)/(n-1) (Note that N is replaced by N-1) and so on.
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