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C-Plus-Plus/dynamic_programming/catalan_numbers.cpp
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/**
* @file
* @brief Provides utilities to compute Catalan numbers using dynamic
programming.
* A Catalan numbers satisfy these recurrence relations:
* C(0) = C(1) = 1; C(n) = sum(C(i).C(n-i-1)), for i = 0 to n-1
* Read more about Catalan numbers here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_number
https://oeis.org/A000108/
*/
#include <cassert> /// for assert
#include <cstdint> /// for std::uint64_t
#include <cstdlib> /// for std::size_t
#include <functional> /// for std::plus & std::multiplies
#include <numeric> /// for std::transform_reduce
#include <vector> /// for std::vector
/**
* @brief computes and caches Catalan numbers
*/
class catalan_numbers {
using value_type = std::uint64_t;
std::vector<value_type> known{1, 1};
value_type compute_next() {
return std::transform_reduce(known.begin(), known.end(), known.rbegin(),
static_cast<value_type>(0), std::plus<>(),
std::multiplies<>());
}
void add() { known.push_back(this->compute_next()); }
public:
/**
* @brief computes the n-th Catalan number and updates the cache.
* @return the n-th Catalan number
*/
value_type get(std::size_t n) {
while (known.size() <= n) {
this->add();
}
return known[n];
}
};
void test_catalan_numbers_up_to_20() {
// data verified with https://oeis.org/A000108/
catalan_numbers cn;
assert(cn.get(0) == 1ULL);
assert(cn.get(1) == 1ULL);
assert(cn.get(2) == 2ULL);
assert(cn.get(3) == 5ULL);
assert(cn.get(4) == 14ULL);
assert(cn.get(5) == 42ULL);
assert(cn.get(6) == 132ULL);
assert(cn.get(7) == 429ULL);
assert(cn.get(8) == 1430ULL);
assert(cn.get(9) == 4862ULL);
assert(cn.get(10) == 16796ULL);
assert(cn.get(11) == 58786ULL);
assert(cn.get(12) == 208012ULL);
assert(cn.get(13) == 742900ULL);
assert(cn.get(14) == 2674440ULL);
assert(cn.get(15) == 9694845ULL);
assert(cn.get(16) == 35357670ULL);
assert(cn.get(17) == 129644790ULL);
assert(cn.get(18) == 477638700ULL);
assert(cn.get(19) == 1767263190ULL);
assert(cn.get(20) == 6564120420ULL);
}
void test_catalan_numbers_25() {
// data verified with https://oeis.org/A000108/
catalan_numbers cn;
assert(cn.get(25) == 4861946401452ULL);
}
int main() {
test_catalan_numbers_up_to_20();
test_catalan_numbers_25();
}