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Nirmani's Star Patterns

Medium · National Olympiad in Informatics Sri Lanka - Screening Test

Nirmani loves finding star patterns in the night sky. She started playing a game where on each night, she has to find a star pattern in the shape of a right-angled triangle. There has to be an equal number of stars in the two adjacent sides of the right angle.

On the first night (N=1), the goal is to find the star pattern with just one star. That is,

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On the second night (N=2),

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On the third night (N=3),

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On the 4th night (N=4),

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And so on…

She requested you to help her out by building a program that prints the star pattern she should find on the Nth night.

Input Format

A single integer N, indicating the Nth night.

Output Format

A star pattern in the shape of a right-angled triangle aligned to the left, with N rows, where the last row contains N stars. You must not include any spaces between stars in the same row.

Constraints

Sample Input 0

4

Sample Output 0

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Sample Input 1

7

Sample Output 1

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