754. Reach a Number

Description

You are standing at position 0 on an infinite number line. There is a destination at position target.

You can make some number of moves numMoves so that:

• On each move, you can either go left or right.
• During the ith move (starting from i == 1 to i == numMoves), you take i steps in the chosen direction.

Given the integer target, return the minimum number of moves required (i.e., the minimum numMoves) to reach the destination.

 

Example 1:

Input: target = 2
Output: 3
Explanation:
On the 1st move, we step from 0 to 1 (1 step).
On the 2nd move, we step from 1 to -1 (2 steps).
On the 3rd move, we step from -1 to 2 (3 steps).

Example 2:

Input: target = 3
Output: 2
Explanation:
On the 1st move, we step from 0 to 1 (1 step).
On the 2nd move, we step from 1 to 3 (2 steps).

 

Constraints:

• -109 <= target <= 109
• target != 0

Solution

reach-a-number.py

class Solution:
    def reachNumber(self, target: int) -> int:
        target = abs(target)
        step = c = 0

        while c < target:
            step += 1
            c += step

        while (c - target) % 2 != 0:
            step += 1
            c += step

        return step