The Mission

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Shiva, the universal cop has a new mission in hand. Shiva learns that P, his long-time rival has fixed a bomb in a bus. In order to defuse the bomb, Shiva must enter a series of continuous alternating numbers$(1, -2, 3, -4, 5, ..)$ starting from 1 such that the total sum of the series is $K$. Find the total number of numbers that Shiva must enter to defuse the bomb. ###Input: - The first line

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