Given three integers a, b and c where c can be either 0 or 1. Without using any arithmetic, relational and conditional operators set the value of a variable x based on below rules –
If c = 0 x = a Else // Note c is binary x = b.
Examples:
Input: a = 5, b = 10, c = 0; Output: x = 5 Input: a = 5, b = 10, c = 1; Output: x = 10
Solution 1: Using arithmetic operators
If we are allowed to use arithmetic operators, we can easily calculate x by using any one of below expressions –
x = ((1 - c) * a) + (c * b) OR x = (a + b) - (!c * b) - (c * a); OR x = (a * !c) | (b * c);
#include <iostream> using namespace std;
int calculate( int a, int b, int c)
{ return ((1 - c) * a) + (c * b);
} int main()
{ int a = 5, b = 10, c = 0;
int x = calculate(a, b, c);
cout << x << endl;
return 0;
} |
Output:
5
Solution 2: Without using arithmetic operators
The idea is to construct an array of size 2 such that index 0 of the array stores value of variable ‘a’ and index 1 value of variable b. Now we return value at index 0 or at index 1 of the array based on value of variable c.
#include <iostream> using namespace std;
int calculate( int a, int b, int c)
{ int arr[] = {a, b};
return *(arr + c);
} int main()
{ int a = 5, b = 10, c = 1;
int x = calculate(a, b, c);
cout << x << endl;
return 0;
} |
Output:
10