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Re^2: Hamming Sequences and Lazy Lists

by Limbic~Region (Chancellor)
on Mar 17, 2005 at 16:48 UTC ( [id://440434]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Hamming Sequences and Lazy Lists
in thread Hamming Sequences and Lazy Lists

kvale,
I don't think this is right. Shouldn't the result include all factors of all 3 lists merged minus duplicates? If you change $seq_len = 23 for instance, why is 16 for instance missing from the results? See Re: Hamming Sequences and Lazy Lists for my understanding and implementation of the problem.

Cheers - L~R

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Re^3: Hamming Sequences and Lazy Lists
by kvale (Monsignor) on Mar 17, 2005 at 17:38 UTC
    Given the OP's reference to the factors of a composite number thread, I interpreted 'use an unlimited number of times" to mean create numbers of the form
    2**$i * 3**$j * 5**$k
    with $i, $j, and $k as integers >= 0. The program I wrote generalizes this by handling an arbitrary number of arbitrary factors.

    I don't know what you mean by 'factors of 3 lists', but if I guess that each list is a multiple of each factor, then I think that must not be right. The example given by the OP had 1 as the first member, but 1 is not any multiple 2, 3, or 5.

    That said, there is an error my program :) 16 should be in the list even in my understanding of the problem. The mistake with is that the bound on the $depth I set was too low. In the harsh light of the morning, a safe bound is

    my $depth = $seq_len;
    But I am sure this bound can be made tighter, right after I have some tea :)

    -Mark

      kvale,
      I understand the need for caffeine. I plan on cleaning my code up too. Here is a visual representation of my understanding of the Hamming sequence.
      2 = 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, ... 3 = 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, ... 5 = 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, ... H = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26 +, 27, 28, 30, ...

      Cheers - L~R

      Update: This is wrong. I was so focused on lazy evaluation that I misunderstood "how do you generate the series of numbers composed of a given list of prime factors, where each can be used an unlimited number of times?" To me, that meant any positive multiple of any factor was valid.

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