Merge 9ff331f into 1e4e0f4

README.md

@@ -166,3 +166,4 @@ problems from
 * [Day 153](https://github.com/vaskoz/dailycodingproblem-go/issues/316)
 * [Day 154](https://github.com/vaskoz/dailycodingproblem-go/issues/320)
 * [Day 155](https://github.com/vaskoz/dailycodingproblem-go/issues/322)
+* [Day 156](https://github.com/vaskoz/dailycodingproblem-go/issues/325)

day156/problem.go

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package day156
+
+import (
+	"math"
+)
+
+// MinSquared returns the smallest number
+// of squared integers which sum to n.
+// Runs in exponential time.
+func MinSquared(n int) int {
+	return minSquared(n, 0, n)
+}
+
+func minSquared(n, level, minSoFar int) int {
+	if n <= 3 {
+		return n
+	}
+	end := int(math.Sqrt(float64(n))) + 1
+	for i := end; i > 0; i-- {
+		if x := i * i; x <= n {
+			if y := 1 + minSquared(n-x, level+1, minSoFar); y < minSoFar {
+				minSoFar = y
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return minSoFar
+}

day156/problem_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package day156
+
+import "testing"
+
+var testcases = []struct {
+	n, expected int
+}{
+	{13, 2},
+	{27, 3},
+}
+
+func TestMinSquared(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	for _, tc := range testcases {
+		if result := MinSquared(tc.n); result != tc.expected {
+			t.Errorf("For N=%d Expected %v got %v", tc.n, tc.expected, result)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func BenchmarkMinSquared(b *testing.B) {
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		for _, tc := range testcases {
+			MinSquared(tc.n)
+		}
+	}
+}