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Minimum count of Full Binary Trees such that the count of leaves is N

Given an integer N and an infinite number of Full Binary Trees of different depths, the task is to choose minimum number of trees such that the sum of the count of leaf nodes in each of the tree is N.
Example: 
 

Input: N = 7 
Output:
Trees with depths 2, 1 and 0 can be picked 
with the number of leaf nodes as 4, 2 and 1 respectively. 
(4 + 2 + 1) = 7
Input: N = 1 
Output:
 

 

Approach: Since the number of leaf nodes in a full binary tree is always a power of two. So, the problem now gets reduced to finding the powers of 2 which give N when added together such that the total number of terms in the summation is minimum which is the required answer. 
Since every power of 2 contains only one ‘1’ in its binary representation, so N will contain the same number of ‘1’s as the number of terms in summation (assuming we take the minimum number of terms). So, the problem further gets reduced to finding the number of set bits in N which can be easily calculated using the approach used in this post.
Below is the implementation of the above approach: 
 




// C++ implementation of the approach
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
 
// Function to return the minimum
// count of trees required
int minTrees(int n)
{
 
    // To store the count of
    // set bits in n
    int count = 0;
 
    while (n) {
        n &= (n - 1);
        count++;
    }
    return count;
}
 
// Driver code
int main()
{
    int n = 7;
 
    cout << minTrees(n);
 
    return 0;
}




// Java implementation of the approach
class GFG
{
 
// Function to return the minimum
// count of trees required
static int minTrees(int n)
{
 
    // To store the count of
    // set bits in n
    int count = 0;
 
    while (n > 0)
    {
        n &= (n - 1);
        count++;
    }
    return count;
}
 
// Driver code
public static void main(String[] args)
{
    int n = 7;
 
    System.out.print(minTrees(n));
}
}
 
// This code is contributed by 29AjayKumar




# Python3 implementation of the approach
 
# Function to return the minimum
# count of trees required
def minTrees(n):
 
    # To store the count of
    # set bits in n
    count = 0;
 
    while (n):
        n &= (n - 1);
        count += 1;
    return count;
 
# Driver code
if __name__ == '__main__':
    n = 7;
    print(minTrees(n));
 
# This code is contributed by 29AjayKumar




// C# implementation of the approach
using System;
 
class GFG
{
 
    // Function to return the minimum
    // count of trees required
    static int minTrees(int n)
    {
     
        // To store the count of
        // set bits in n
        int count = 0;
     
        while (n > 0)
        {
            n &= (n - 1);
            count++;
        }
        return count;
    }
     
    // Driver code
    public static void Main()
    {
        int n = 7;
     
        Console.Write(minTrees(n));
    }
}
 
// This code is contributed by AnkitRai01




<script>
    // Javascript implementation of the approach
     
    // Function to return the minimum
    // count of trees required
    function minTrees(n)
    {
       
        // To store the count of
        // set bits in n
        let count = 0;
       
        while (n > 0)
        {
            n &= (n - 1);
            count++;
        }
        return count;
    }
     
    let n = 7;
       
      document.write(minTrees(n));
  
 // This code is contributed by divyeshrabadiya07.
</script>

Output: 
3

 


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