2882. Ways to Express an Integer as Sum of Powers

Medium
Dynamic Programming

Description

Given two positive integers n and x.

Return the number of ways n can be expressed as the sum of the xth power of unique positive integers, in other words, the number of sets of unique integers [n1, n2, ..., nk] where n = n1x + n2x + ... + nkx.

Since the result can be very large, return it modulo 109 + 7.

For example, if n = 160 and x = 3, one way to express n is n = 23 + 33 + 53.

 

Example 1:

Input: n = 10, x = 2
Output: 1
Explanation: We can express n as the following: n = 32 + 12 = 10.
It can be shown that it is the only way to express 10 as the sum of the 2nd power of unique integers.

Example 2:

Input: n = 4, x = 1
Output: 2
Explanation: We can express n in the following ways:
- n = 41 = 4.
- n = 31 + 11 = 4.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= n <= 300
  • 1 <= x <= 5

Hints

Hint 1
You can use dynamic programming, where dp[k][j] represents the number of ways to express k as the sum of the x-th power of unique positive integers such that the biggest possible number we use is j.
Hint 2
To calculate dp[k][j], you can iterate over the numbers smaller than j and try to use each one as a power of x to make our sum k.

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