[lintcode] problem 879 – output contest matches

During the NBA playoffs, we always arrange the rather strong team to play with the rather weak team, like make the rank 1 team play with the rank nth team, which is a good strategy to make the contest more interesting. Now, you’re given n teams, and you need to output their final contest matches in the form of a string.

The n teams are given in the form of positive integers from 1 to n, which represents their initial rank. (Rank 1 is the strongest team and Rank n is the weakest team.) We’ll use parentheses () and commas , to represent the contest team pairing - parentheses () for pairing and commas , for partition. During the pairing process in each round, you always need to follow the strategy of making the rather strong one pair with the rather weak one.

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public String (int n) {
    String[] result = new String[n];

    for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++)
        result[i - 1] = String.valueOf(i);

    while (n > 1) {
        for (int i = 1; i <= n / 2; i++)
            result[i - 1] = "(" + result[i - 1] + ","+ result[n - i] + ")";

        n >>= 1;
    }

    return result[0];
}