- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Math, leetcode-3021, O(1), Combinatorics
Problem
Alice and Bob are playing a turn-based game on a circular field surrounded by flowers. The circle represents the field, and there are x
flowers in the clockwise direction between Alice and Bob, and y
flowers in the anti-clockwise direction between them.
The game proceeds as follows:
- Alice takes the first turn.
- In each turn, a player must choose either the clockwise or anti-clockwise direction and pick one flower from that side.
- At the end of the turn, if there are no flowers left at all, the current player captures their opponent and wins the game.
Given two integers, n
and m
, the task is to compute the number of possible pairs (x, y)
that satisfy the conditions:
- Alice must win the game according to the described rules.
- The number of flowers
x
in the clockwise direction must be in the range[1,n]
. - The number of flowers
y
in the anti-clockwise direction must be in the range[1,m]
.
Return the number of possible pairs (x, y)
that satisfy the conditions mentioned in the statement.
Example 1:
Input: n = 3, m = 2 Output: 3 Explanation: The following pairs satisfy conditions described in the statement: (1,2), (3,2), (2,1).
Example 2:
Input: n = 1, m = 1 Output: 0 Explanation: No pairs satisfy the conditions described in the statement.
Constraints:
1 <= n, m <= 105