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factor-group function

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2018 9:45 am
by cameyo
To solve a project euler problem i have written this factor-group function:

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(define (factor-group x)
  (letn (fattori (factor x)
         unici (unique fattori))
    (transpose (list unici (count unici fattori)))))

(factor-group 2000)
;-> ((2 4) (5 3))
(factor-group 232792560)
;-> ((2 4) (3 2) (5 1) (7 1) (11 1) (13 1) (17 1) (19 1))
Do you known a better/faster way?
Thanks.

cameyo

Re: factor-group function

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 2:06 am
by ralph.ronnquist
Nice.

The factorization is of course the "slow" part, whereas the result juggling is almost irrelevant time-wise. I wouldn't try to improve on your implementation, but as a hind-sight, I probably would have used

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(map list unici (count unici fattori))
instead of

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(transpose (list unici (count unici fattori)))
just because it intuitively would be less structure re-arrangement.
And I also wouldn't have known to use Italian named variables :)

Re: factor-group function

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 6:41 am
by cameyo
Thanks Ralph.
I am really enjoying newLisp :-)
cameyo

Re: factor-group function

Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 4:47 pm
by cameyo
I forgot to add the inverse function:

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(setq fg (factor-group 220))
;-> ((2 2) (5 1) (11 1))

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(setq num-fg (apply * (map (lambda (x) (pow (first x) (last x))) fg)))
;-> 220
cameyo