Count of common multiples of two numbers in a range

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Given a range from L to R and every Xth tile is painted black and every Yth tile is painted white in that range from L to R. If a tile is painted both white and black, then it is considered to be painted grey. The task is to find the number of tiles that are colored grey in range L to R (both inclusive).
Examples:

Input: X = 2, Y = 3, L = 6, R = 18
Output: 3
The grey coloured tiles are numbered 6, 12, 18

Input: X = 1, Y = 4, L = 5, R = 10
Output: 1
The only grey coloured tile is 8.

Approach: Since every multiple of X is black and every multiple of Y is white. Any tile which is a multiple of both X and Y would be grey. The terms that are divisible by both X and Y are the terms that are divisible by the lcm of X and Y.
Lcm can be found out using the following formula:

lcm = (x*y) / gcd(x, y)

GCD can be computed in logn time using Euclid’s algorithm. The number of multiples of lcm in range L to R can be found by using a common trick of:

count(L, R) = count(R) - count(L-1)

Number of terms divisible by K less than N is:

floor(N/K)

Below is the implementation to find the number of grey tiles:

C++

// C++ implementation to find the number of
// grey tiles
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
 
// Function to count the number of grey tiles
int findTileCount(int x, int y, int l, int r)
{
    int lcm = (x * y) / __gcd(x, y);
 
    // Number multiple of lcm less than L
    int countl = (l - 1) / lcm;
 
    // Number of multiples of lcm less than R+1
    int countr = r / lcm;
    return countr - countl;
}
 
// Driver code
int main()
{
    int x = 2, y = 3, l = 6, r = 18;
    cout << findTileCount(x, y, l, r);
    return 0;
}

Java

// Java  implementation to find the 
// number of grey tiles
 
import java.io.*;
 
class GFG {
    // Function to count the number
// of grey tiles 
static int findTileCount(int x, int y, 
                         int l, int r) 
{ 
    int lcm = (x * y) / __gcd(x, y); 
 
    // Number multiple of lcm less than L 
    int countl = (l - 1) / lcm; 
 
    // Number of multiples of 
    // lcm less than R+1 
    int countr = r / lcm; 
    return countr - countl; 
} 
 
static int __gcd(int a, int b) 
{ 
     
    // Everything divides 0 
    if (a == 0) 
    return b; 
    if (b == 0) 
    return a; 
 
    // base case 
    if (a == b) 
        return a; 
 
    // a is greater 
    if (a > b) 
        return __gcd(a - b, b); 
         
    return __gcd(a, b - a); 
}
 
// Driver code 
     
     
    public static void main (String[] args) {
 
    int x = 2, y = 3, l = 6, r = 18; 
        System.out.println(findTileCount(x, y, l, r)); 
}
} 
 
// This code is contributed ajit

Python3

# Python3 implementation to find the number of 
# grey tiles 
 
# from math lib import gcd method
from math import gcd
 
# Function to count the number of grey tiles 
def findTileCount(x, y, l, r) :
 
    lcm = (x * y) // gcd(x, y)
 
    # Number multiple of lcm less than L 
    count1 = (l - 1) // lcm
 
    # Number of multiples of lcm less than R+1 
    countr = r // lcm
 
    return countr - count1
 
 
 
# Driver code
if __name__ == "__main__" :
 
    x, y, l, r = 2, 3, 6, 18
    print(findTileCount(x, y, l, r))
 
# This code is contributed by 
# ANKITRAI1

C#

// C# implementation to find the 
// number of grey tiles 
using System;
 
class GFG
{
     
// Function to count the number
// of grey tiles 
static int findTileCount(int x, int y, 
                         int l, int r) 
{ 
    int lcm = (x * y) / __gcd(x, y); 
 
    // Number multiple of lcm less than L 
    int countl = (l - 1) / lcm; 
 
    // Number of multiples of 
    // lcm less than R+1 
    int countr = r / lcm; 
    return countr - countl; 
} 
 
static int __gcd(int a, int b) 
{ 
     
    // Everything divides 0 
    if (a == 0) 
    return b; 
    if (b == 0) 
    return a; 
 
    // base case 
    if (a == b) 
        return a; 
 
    // a is greater 
    if (a > b) 
        return __gcd(a - b, b); 
         
    return __gcd(a, b - a); 
}
 
// Driver code 
public static void Main() 
{ 
    int x = 2, y = 3, l = 6, r = 18; 
    Console.Write(findTileCount(x, y, l, r)); 
}
} 
 
// This code is contributed 
// by Kirti_Mangal

PHP

<?php
// PHP implementation to find the 
// number of grey tiles
 
// Function to count the number
// of grey tiles 
function findTileCount($x, $y, $l, $r) 
{ 
    $lcm = (int)(($x * $y) / __gcd($x, $y)); 
 
    // Number multiple of lcm less than L 
    $countl = (int)(($l - 1) / $lcm); 
 
    // Number of multiples of 
    // lcm less than R+1 
    $countr = (int)($r / $lcm); 
    return $countr - $countl; 
} 
 
function __gcd($a, $b) 
{ 
     
    // Everything divides 0 
    if ($a == 0) 
    return $b; 
    if ($b == 0) 
    return $a; 
 
    // base case 
    if ($a == $b) 
        return $a; 
 
    // a is greater 
    if ($a > $b) 
        return __gcd($a - $b, $b); 
         
    return __gcd($a, $b - $a); 
}
 
// Driver code 
$x = 2; $y = 3; $l = 6; $r = 18; 
echo findTileCount($x, $y, $l, $r); 
     
// This code is contributed
// by Akanksha Rai(Abby_akku)
?>

Javascript

<script>
 
// JavaScript implementation to find the 
// number of grey tiles
 
// Function to count the number
// of grey tiles 
function findTileCount(x,y,l,r) 
{ 
    lcm = parseInt((x * y) / __gcd(x, y)); 
 
    // Number multiple of lcm less than L 
    countl = parseInt((l - 1) / lcm); 
 
    // Number of multiples of 
    // lcm less than R+1 
    countr = parseInt(r / lcm); 
    return countr - countl; 
} 
 
function __gcd(a, b) 
{ 
     
    // Everything divides 0 
    if (a == 0) 
    return b; 
    if (b == 0) 
    return a; 
 
    // base case 
    if (a == b) 
        return a; 
 
    // a is greater 
    if (a > b) 
        return __gcd(a - b, b); 
         
    return __gcd(a, b - a); 
}
 
// Driver code 
let x = 2;
let y = 3;
let l = 6; 
let r = 18; 
document.write(findTileCount(x, y, l, r)); 
 
// This code is contributed by bobby
 
</script>

Output:

Time Complexity: O(log(min(x, y))), where x and y are two parameters of gcd.

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