#include <iostream>

// First, an apology.
//
// For generations, Canada and the United States
// have been close friends, allies, trading partners,
// and neighbours. Recent political events may have...
// strained...that relationship, but governments and
// elections change, while approximately
// 340 million Americans remain our neighbours.
//
// With that diplomatic formality out of the way:
//
// The arrangement of the stars on the flag of the
// United States has changed many times as states
// were admitted to the Union.
//
// Find an example of an official United States flag
// from some point in its history and write a program
// that prints asterisks in the same pattern as the
// stars in the canton of that flag.
//
// For example, for the current 50-star flag, you
// could approximate the pattern as
//
//     * * * * * *
//      * * * * *
//     * * * * * *
//      * * * * *
//     * * * * * *
//      * * * * *
//     * * * * * *
//      * * * * *
//     * * * * * *
//
// or, if you want to reproduce the spacing more
// faithfully:
//
//     *     *     *     *     *     *
//        *     *     *     *     *
//     *     *     *     *     *     *
//        *     *     *     *     *
//     *     *     *     *     *     *
//        *     *     *     *     *
//     *     *     *     *     *     *
//        *     *     *     *     *
//     *     *     *     *     *     *
//
// As another example, one arrangement used for the
// 46-star flag from 1908 to 1912 can be represented
// approximately as
//
//     * * * * * * * *
//      * * * * * * *
//     * * * * * * * *
//     * * * * * * * *
//      * * * * * * *
//     * * * * * * * *
//
// Your program should use loops to generate the
// pattern. Do not simply use one std::cout statement
// for each row.
//
// You will have to determine:
//
//   - the number of rows,
//   - the number of stars on each row,
//   - which rows, if any, must be indented, and
//   - how these quantities can be determined from
//     the loop variable.

// Function declarations
int main();

// Function definitions
int main() {
    return 0;
}









































// Hint:
//
// Start by examining the flag you selected.
//
// Look for repeated patterns. For example:
//
//   - Do all rows contain the same number of stars?
//   - Do odd and even rows differ?
//   - Are some rows indented?
//   - Can the row number determine the number of
//     stars and whether spaces must be printed?
//
// Once you identify the pattern, use an outer loop
// for the rows and an inner loop for the stars.









































// Here is one example using the 46-star pattern
// shown above:
/*
int main() {
    for ( int row{ 1 }; row <= 6; ++row ) {
        int num_stars{ 8 };

        if ( (row == 2) || (row == 5) ) {
            num_stars = 7;
            std::cout << " ";
        }

        for ( int column{ 1 };
              column <= num_stars;
              ++column ) {
            std::cout << "* ";
        }

        std::cout << std::endl;
    }

    return 0;
}
*/