Good parts per run cycle
Each cycle a press makes partsPerCycle units and chips away scrapPerCycle of them. Count the good units over the whole run.
- Each cycle yields partsPerCycle minus scrapPerCycle good units.
- The good units are never negative — if scrap matches or beats output the cycle yields zero.
- The total is good units times the number of cycles.
cycleOutput(cycles: int, partsPerCycle: int, scrapPerCycle: int) → int
Go needs a compiler and Drill does not host one yet, so this page is the reference rather than an exercise: the problem, worked examples, and the solution in full. To type it out, the same problem runs in Python.
Where you start
func cycleOutput(cycles int, partsPerCycle int, scrapPerCycle int) int {
}Worked examples
| Call | Result |
|---|---|
cycleOutput(10, 5, 1) | 40 |
cycleOutput(0, 5, 1) | 0 |
cycleOutput(5, 3, 3) | 0 |
cycleOutput(5, 3, 5) | 0 |
Hint
Clamp the per-cycle good count at zero, then multiply by the cycles.
Reference solution in Go
func cycleOutput(cycles int, partsPerCycle int, scrapPerCycle int) int {
net := partsPerCycle - scrapPerCycle
if net < 0 {
net = 0
}
return cycles * net
}