Square Coins
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Count the number of ways to represent each amount below 300 as a sum of square-valued coins (1, 4, 9, ..., 289), with order ignored.
- Level
Medium4 of 10
- Topics
- Dynamic programming, Math, Combinatorics, Implementation
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Problem
People in Silverland use square coins. Not only do the coins have a square shape, but their values are also square numbers. Coins with values of all square numbers up to 289 (= 17^2), that is, 1-credit coins, 4-credit coins, 9-credit coins, ..., and 289-credit coins, are available in Silverland.
There are four combinations of coins to pay ten credits:
- ten 1-credit coins
- one 4-credit coin and six 1-credit coins
- two 4-credit coins and two 1-credit coins
- one 9-credit coin and one 1-credit coin
Your mission is to count the number of ways to pay a given amount using coins of Silverland.
Input
The input consists of lines each containing an integer meaning an amount to be paid, followed by a line containing a zero. You may assume that all the amounts are positive and less than 300.
Output
For each of the given amounts, one line containing a single integer representing the number of combinations of coins should be output. No other characters should appear in the output.