Problem 51251. Locate a family on a long street
Two children, Matilda and Labrun, live on a street in which—unlike many streets in the U.S.—the houses on one side are numbered consecutively, starting at 1. They notice that the sum of the numbers on the houses to the left of theirs equals the sum of the numbers to the right.
Write a function that takes , the maximum number of houses on the street, and returns the largest possible number of houses and the number of the house where the family of Matilda and Labrun lives. For example, if = 10, then the function should find that the street has 8 houses and Matilda and Labrun live in house 6 because 1+2+3+4+5 = 7+8 = 15.
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ChrisR
on 16 May 2021
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