/* Algorithm complexity: n*log(n) */ #include int main( int argc, char* argv[] ) { int triangle[] = { 55, 94, 48, 95, 30, 96, 77, 71, 26, 67, 97, 13, 76, 38, 45, 7, 36, 79, 16, 37, 68, 48, 7, 9, 18, 70, 26, 6, 18, 72, 79, 46, 59, 79, 29, 90, 20, 76, 87, 11, 32, 7, 7, 49, 18, 27, 83, 58, 35, 71, 11, 25, 57, 29, 85, 14, 64, 36, 96, 27, 11, 58, 56, 92, 18, 55, 2, 90, 3, 60, 48, 49, 41, 46, 33, 36, 47, 23, 92, 50, 48, 2, 36, 59, 42, 79, 72, 20, 82, 77, 42, 56, 78, 38, 80, 39, 75, 2, 71, 66, 66, 1, 3, 55, 72, 44, 25, 67, 84, 71, 67, 11, 61, 40, 57, 58, 89, 40, 56, 36, 85, 32, 25, 85, 57, 48, 84, 35, 47, 62, 17, 1, 1, 99, 89, 52, 6, 71, 28, 75, 94, 48, 37, 10, 23, 51, 6, 48, 53, 18, 74, 98, 15, 27, 2, 92, 23, 8, 71, 76, 84, 15, 52, 92, 63, 81, 10, 44, 10, 69, 93 }; const int size = sizeof( triangle ) / sizeof( int ); const int tn = static_cast(sqrt(2.0 * size)); assert(tn * (tn + 1) == 2 * size); // size should be a triangular number // walk backward by rows, replacing each element with max attainable therefrom for (int n = tn - 1; n > 0; --n) // n is size of row, note we do not process last row for (int k = (n * (n-1)) / 2; k < (n * (n+1)) / 2; ++k) // from the start to the end of row triangle[k] += std::max(triangle[k + n], triangle[k + n + 1]); std::cout << "Maximum total: " << triangle[0] << "\n\n"; }