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Daily Challenge #64- Drying Potatoes

dev.to staff on September 11, 2019

John bought potatoes: their weight is 100 kilograms. Potatoes contain water and dry matter. The water content is 99 percent of the total weight. H...

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Mihail Malo • Sep 11 '19

Oh come on, that's not coding :v

Donald Feury • Sep 11 '19 • Edited

All this talk of potatoes makes me want to Go get some french fries.

I added some error checking for a few cases that made sense to me, such as:

No passing in 0 for the mass, since that means you don't have any spuds!
No passing in a greater water ratio for p1. I don't think you can increase water ratio by drying potatoes.

I also changed the inputs and outputs to specifically be unsigned integers, since it seems like negative numbers were not meant to be used here and this avoids having to do error checking for things like:

if p0 < 0 || p1 < 0 || w0 < 0 {
    return 0, errors.New("cannot use negative values")
}

Want to see my solutions to the other challenges? Go check them out on my Github! github.com/Dak425/dev-to-challenges

potato.go

package potato

import "errors"

// Dry determines the weight of a mass of potatoes by reducing the current water ratio to the desired ratio
func Dry(p0, w0, p1 uint) (uint, error) {
    if p1 > p0 {
        return 0, errors.New("p1 cannot be greater than p0")
    }
    if w0 == 0 {
        return 0, errors.New("w0 cannot be zero")
    }
    if p0 == p1 {
        return w0, nil
    }
    return w0 * (100 - p0) / (100 - p1), nil
}

potato_test.go

package potato

import "testing"

type testCase struct {
    description string
    input       []uint
    expected    uint
    expectErr   bool
}

func TestDry(t *testing.T) {
    testCases := []testCase{
        {
            "example test",
            []uint{99, 100, 98},
            50,
            false,
        },
        {
            "bigger change in water ratio",
            []uint{99, 100, 95},
            20,
            false,
        },
        {
            "no change in water ratio",
            []uint{87, 120, 87},
            120,
            false,
        },
        {
            "cannot use a zero mass of potatoes",
            []uint{56, 0, 54},
            0,
            true,
        },
        {
            "cannot increase the water ratio",
            []uint{42, 50, 50},
            0,
            true,
        },
    }
    for _, test := range testCases {
        result, err := Dry(test.input[0], test.input[1], test.input[2])
        if err == nil && test.expectErr {
            t.Fatalf("FAIL: %s - Dry(%d, %d, %d): expected error but nil was returned", test.description, test.input[0], test.input[1], test.input[2])
        }
        if result != test.expected {
            t.Fatalf("FAIL: %s - Dry(%d, %d, %d): %d - expected: %d", test.description, test.input[0], test.input[1], test.input[2], result, test.expected)
        }
        t.Logf("PASS: %s", test.description)
    }
}

E. Choroba • Sep 11 '19

Perl solution with tests.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use Types::Standard qw( Int );
use Function::Parameters;

fun potatoes (Int $p0, Int $w0, Int $p1) {
    sprintf '%d', $w0 * (100 - $p0) / (100 - $p1)
}

use Test::More tests => 2;
is potatoes(99, 100, 98), 50;
is potatoes(50, 200, 25), 133;

How did I get the formula?
Let's say d is the dry matter weight. We know that

dm = w0 * (1 - p0)
dm = w1 * (1 - p1)

therefore,

w1 = w0 * (1 - p0) / (1 - p1)

Aadi Bajpai • Sep 11 '19 • Edited

Good ol' python one-liner* 😊

def potatoes(p0, w0, p1): return w0*(100-p0)/(100-p1)

>>> potatoes(99, 100, 98)
50

*math sold separately

Dev Prakash • Sep 12 '19

I didn't know that we can define a function and return it in the same line ...
That's crazy

Craig McIlwrath • Sep 11 '19

Haskell:

potatoes p0 weight p1 = weight * (100 - p0) / (100 - p1)

Dev Prakash • Sep 12 '19

def potatoes (p0 , w0 , p1) :
    return (100-p0) * w0 / (100-p1) 
print (potatoes(99 , 100 ,98))

Cosmin Popescu • Sep 17 '19 • Edited

let potatoes = (p0, w0, p1) => parseInt(w0 * (100 - p0) / (100 - p1))

console.log(potatoes(99, 100, 98));
console.log(potatoes(50, 200, 25));

Cosmin Popescu • Sep 17 '19

in C#

int potatoes(int p0, int w0, int p1) => w0 * (100 - p0) / (100 - p1);
Console.WriteLine(potatoes(50, 200, 25));

Nans Dumortier • Sep 11 '19

mind : blown 🤯