2979. Most Expensive Item That Can Not Be Bought π
Description
You are given two distinct prime numbers primeOne
and primeTwo
.
Alice and Bob are visiting a market. The market has an infinite number of items, for any positive integer x
there exists an item whose price is x
. Alice wants to buy some items from the market to gift to Bob. She has an infinite number of coins in the denomination primeOne
and primeTwo
. She wants to know the most expensive item she can not buy to gift to Bob.
Return the price of the most expensive item which Alice can not gift to Bob.
Example 1:
Input: primeOne = 2, primeTwo = 5 Output: 3 Explanation: The prices of items which cannot be bought are [1,3]. It can be shown that all items with a price greater than 3 can be bought using a combination of coins of denominations 2 and 5.
Example 2:
Input: primeOne = 5, primeTwo = 7 Output: 23 Explanation: The prices of items which cannot be bought are [1,2,3,4,6,8,9,11,13,16,18,23]. It can be shown that all items with a price greater than 23 can be bought.
Constraints:
1 < primeOne, primeTwo < 104
primeOne
,primeTwo
are prime numbers.primeOne * primeTwo < 105
Solutions
Solution 1: Chicken McNugget Theorem
According to the Chicken McNugget Theorem, for two coprime positive integers $a$ and $b$, the largest number that cannot be expressed as a combination of $a$ and $b$ is $ab - a - b$.
The time complexity is $O(1)$, and the space complexity is $O(1)$.
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