Problem 12
Description
This problem was asked by Amazon.
There exists a staircase with N
steps, and you can climb up either 1
or 2
steps at a time. Given N
, write a function that returns the number of unique ways you can climb the staircase. The order of the steps matters.
For example, if N
is 4
, then there are 5
unique ways:
1, 1, 1, 1
2, 1, 1
1, 2, 1
1, 1, 2
2, 2
What if, instead of being able to climb 1
or 2
steps at a time, you could climb any number from a set of positive integers X
? For example, if X = {1, 3, 5}
, you could climb 1
, 3
, or 5
steps at a time.