🚵What's a Perfect Power anyway?
A perfect power is a classification of positive integers:
In mathematics, a perfect power is a positive integer that can be expressed as an integer power of another positive integer. More formally, n is a perfect power if there exist natural numbers m > 1, and k > 1 such that mk = n.
Your task is to check wheter a given integer is a perfect power. If it is a perfect power, return a pair m and k with mk = n as a proof. Otherwise return Nothing, Nil, null, NULL, None or your language's equivalent.
Note: For a perfect power, there might be several pairs. For example 81 = 3^4 = 9^2, so (3,4) and (9,2) are valid solutions. However, the tests take care of this, so if a number is a perfect power, return any pair that proves it.
Examples
isPP(4) => [2,2]
isPP(9) => [3,2]
isPP(5) => None
Best Practices
Py First:
from math import ceil, log, sqrt
def isPP(n):
for b in xrange(2, int(sqrt(n)) + 1):
e = int(round(log(n, b)))
if b ** e == n:
return [b, e]
return None
Py Second:
def isPP(n):
for i in range(2, int(n**.5) + 1):
number = n
times = 0
while number % i == 0:
number /= i
times += 1
if number == 1:
return [i, times]
return None