package com.thealgorithms.dynamicprogramming; /** * @author Siddhant Swarup Mallick * In mathematics, the Golomb sequence is a non-decreasing integer sequence where n-th term is equal * to number of times n appears in the sequence. * Wikipedia * Program description - To find the Golomb sequence upto n */ public final class CountFriendsPairing { private CountFriendsPairing() { } public static boolean countFriendsPairing(int n, int[] a) { int[] dp = new int[n + 1]; // array of n+1 size is created dp[0] = 1; // since 1st index position value is fixed so it's marked as 1 for (int i = 1; i < n; i++) { dp[i] = 1 + dp[i - dp[dp[i - 1]]]; // formula for ith golomb sequence is dp(i) = 1 + dp(i – dp(dp(i - 1))) } for (int i = 1; i < n; i++) { if (a[i - 1] != dp[i]) { return false; // checks whether the calculated answer matches with the expected answer } } return true; // returns true if calculated answer matches with the expected answer } }