Problem: Takahashi's house has only one socket.  Takahashi wants to extend it with some number of power strips, each with A sockets, into B or more empty sockets.  One power strip with A sockets can extend one empty socket into A empty sockets.  Find the minimum number of power strips required.

Submission attempts (in order):
import sys

sys.setrecursionlimit(10 ** 6)
int1 = lambda x: int(x) - 1
printV = lambda x: print(*x, sep="\n")
printH = lambda x: print(" ".join(map(str,x)))
def IS(): return sys.stdin.readline()[:-1]
def II(): return int(sys.stdin.readline())
def MI(): return map(int, sys.stdin.readline().split())
def LI(): return list(map(int, sys.stdin.readline().split()))
def LI1(): return list(map(int1, sys.stdin.readline().split()))
def LII(rows_number): return [II() for _ in range(rows_number)]
def LLI(rows_number): return [LI() for _ in range(rows_number)]
def LLI1(rows_number): return [LI1() for _ in range(rows_number)]

def main():
	a,b = MI()
	n = (B-A)/(A-1)
	if(n%1==0):print(int(n))
	else:print(int(n)+1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()

import sys

sys.setrecursionlimit(10 ** 6)
int1 = lambda x: int(x) - 1
printV = lambda x: print(*x, sep="\n")
printH = lambda x: print(" ".join(map(str,x)))
def IS(): return sys.stdin.readline()[:-1]
def II(): return int(sys.stdin.readline())
def MI(): return map(int, sys.stdin.readline().split())
def LI(): return list(map(int, sys.stdin.readline().split()))
def LI1(): return list(map(int1, sys.stdin.readline().split()))
def LII(rows_number): return [II() for _ in range(rows_number)]
def LLI(rows_number): return [LI() for _ in range(rows_number)]
def LLI1(rows_number): return [LI1() for _ in range(rows_number)]

def main():
	a,b = MI()
	n = (b-a)/(a-1)
	if(b=1):print(0)
	elif(a>b):print(1)
	elif(n%1==0):print(int(n)+1)
	else:print(int(n)+2)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()

import sys

sys.setrecursionlimit(10 ** 6)
int1 = lambda x: int(x) - 1
printV = lambda x: print(*x, sep="\n")
printH = lambda x: print(" ".join(map(str,x)))
def IS(): return sys.stdin.readline()[:-1]
def II(): return int(sys.stdin.readline())
def MI(): return map(int, sys.stdin.readline().split())
def LI(): return list(map(int, sys.stdin.readline().split()))
def LI1(): return list(map(int1, sys.stdin.readline().split()))
def LII(rows_number): return [II() for _ in range(rows_number)]
def LLI(rows_number): return [LI() for _ in range(rows_number)]
def LLI1(rows_number): return [LI1() for _ in range(rows_number)]

def main():
	a,b = MI()
	n = (b-a)/(a-1)
	if(n%1==0):print(int(n))
	else:print(int(n)+1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()

import sys

sys.setrecursionlimit(10 ** 6)
int1 = lambda x: int(x) - 1
printV = lambda x: print(*x, sep="\n")
printH = lambda x: print(" ".join(map(str,x)))
def IS(): return sys.stdin.readline()[:-1]
def II(): return int(sys.stdin.readline())
def MI(): return map(int, sys.stdin.readline().split())
def LI(): return list(map(int, sys.stdin.readline().split()))
def LI1(): return list(map(int1, sys.stdin.readline().split()))
def LII(rows_number): return [II() for _ in range(rows_number)]
def LLI(rows_number): return [LI() for _ in range(rows_number)]
def LLI1(rows_number): return [LI1() for _ in range(rows_number)]

def main():
	a,b = MI()
	if b == 1:
		print(0)
	else:
		ans = 0
		tap = 1
		while True:
			tap += a - 1
			ans += 1
			if b <= tap:
				print(ans)
				break


if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()

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