Brainstorming Quiz, Day - 7 Solution
Discover how Amogh Bhattarai solved the Sponsor Sequence problem to secure ZAAOU's sponsorship for ACES TechFest 7.0, with Python code and insights into algorithm design.
Sandip Sapkota
Mon, Dec 9, 2024
1 min read
Answer:173 We used Python to implement an algorithm that calculates the Sponsor sequence and identifies the 50th element. Here's the code:
def find_nth_sponsor_element(n):
sponsor_sequence = [2, 9, 15]
current = 16 # Start from the next number after the last in the initial list
while len(sponsor_sequence) < n:
is_sponsor = True
for x in sponsor_sequence:
if current % x == 0: # Check divisibility condition
is_sponsor = False
break
if is_sponsor:
sponsor_sequence.append(current)
current += 1 # Move to the next number
return sponsor_sequence[n-1] # Return only the nth element
# Find the 50th element
fiftieth_element = find_nth_sponsor_element(50)
print('The 50th sponsor element is:', fiftieth_element)