0754. Reach a Number

https://leetcode.com/problems/reach-a-number

Description

You are standing at position 0 on an infinite number line. There is a destination at position target.

You can make some number of moves numMoves so that:

  • On each move, you can either go left or right.

  • During the ith move (starting from i == 1 to i == numMoves), you take i steps in the chosen direction.

Given the integer target, return the minimum number of moves required (i.e., the minimum numMoves) to reach the destination.

Example 1:

**Input:** target = 2
**Output:** 3
**Explanation:**
On the 1st move, we step from 0 to 1 (1 step).
On the 2nd move, we step from 1 to -1 (2 steps).
On the 3rd move, we step from -1 to 2 (3 steps).

Example 2:

**Input:** target = 3
**Output:** 2
**Explanation:**
On the 1st move, we step from 0 to 1 (1 step).
On the 2nd move, we step from 1 to 3 (2 steps).

Constraints:

  • -109 <= target <= 109

  • target != 0

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