- Difficulty: Medium
- Tags: LeetCode, Medium, Greedy, Math, leetcode-2829, Constructive Algorithms, O(1)
Problem
You are given two integers, n
and k
.
An array of distinct positive integers is called a k-avoiding array if there does not exist any pair of distinct elements that sum to k
.
Return the minimum possible sum of a k-avoiding array of length n
.
Example 1:
Input: n = 5, k = 4 Output: 18 Explanation: Consider the k-avoiding array [1,2,4,5,6], which has a sum of 18. It can be proven that there is no k-avoiding array with a sum less than 18.
Example 2:
Input: n = 2, k = 6 Output: 3 Explanation: We can construct the array [1,2], which has a sum of 3. It can be proven that there is no k-avoiding array with a sum less than 3.
Constraints:
1 <= n, k <= 50