Daily Challenge #277 - Over the Road

You've just moved into a perfectly straight street with exactly n identical houses on either side of the road. Naturally, you would like to find out the house number of the people on the other side of the street. The street looks something like this:

1|   |6
3|   |4
5|   |2

Evens increase on the right; odds decrease on the left. House numbers start at 1 and increase without gaps. When n = 3, 1 is opposite 6, 3 opposite 4, and 5 opposite 2.

Given your house number address and length of street n, give the house number on the opposite side of the street.

Examples

over_the_road(address, n)

over_the_road(1, 3) = 6
over_the_road(3, 3) = 4

Tests

over_the_road(3, 5)
over_the_road(7, 11)

Good luck!

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Comments

[peter279k]

Simple solution:

<?php
function overTheRoad($address, $street){
  return $street*2 - $address + 1;
}

Here is sample picture to explain all of this:

[Bubbler]

APL (using Dyalog APL):

   ⍝ left(⍺):address, right(⍵):n
   OverTheRoad ← {⍺-⍨1+2×⍵}
   1 OverTheRoad 3
6
   3 OverTheRoad 3
4
   3 OverTheRoad 5
8
   7 OverTheRoad 11
16

   ⍝ Short, "tacit" form
   OverTheRoad ← -⍨+1+⊢
   ⍝ Arithmetic automatically maps over multiple numbers!
   1 3 3 7 OverTheRoad 3 3 5 11
6 4 8 16

(Use the bookmarklet on this post to see the code with APL font and syntax highlighting.)

Explanation: The sum of two houses facing each other is always the same for given n, which is 2n+1. So the opposite house number becomes 2n+1-address.

[Rafi]

Ruby

def over_the_road(address, n)
    (n * 2) + 1 - address 
end

[SavagePixie]

const overTheRoad = (a, n) => 2 * n - a + 1