Re: Challenge: Another Infinite Lazy List

[Roy Johnson]

in reply to Challenge: Another Infinite Lazy List

This is actually a simpler problem, because the output for each iteration comes directly off of one of the input streams. One interesting property of that is that you can easily advance yourself in the output stream without generating the whole sequence.

use strict; 
use warnings;

{
    my @streams = map [$_, 0], (2,3,5);
    sub limbic_sequence {
        my $first_after = shift;
        if (defined $first_after) {
             $_->[1] = int($first_after/$_->[0]) for @streams;
        }
        my ($lowest) = sort {$a <=> $b} map {($_->[1]+1) * $_->[0]} @s
+treams;
        $_->[1]++ for grep {($_->[1]+1) * $_->[0] == $lowest} @streams
+;
        $lowest;
    }
}

print join ', ', map limbic_sequence, 1..50;
print "\n";
printf "First after 100000 is: %d\n", limbic_sequence(100000);
print join ', ', map limbic_sequence, 1..50;
print "\n";
__END__
#Output
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 2
+7, 28, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 50, 51
+, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68
First after 100000 is: 100002
100004, 100005, 100006, 100008, 100010, 100011, 100012, 100014, 100015
+, 100016, 100017, 100018, 100020, 100022, 100023, 100024, 100025, 100
+026, 100028, 100029, 100030, 100032, 100034, 100035, 100036, 100038, 
+100040, 100041, 100042, 100044, 100045, 100046, 100047, 100048, 10005
+0, 100052, 100053, 100054, 100055, 100056, 100058, 100059, 100060, 10
+0062, 100064, 100065, 100066, 100068, 100070, 100071

[demerphq]

Am I right in thinking you are basically doing the same thing as my make_sub2() implementation but rotating the data (Ie, i have two array of N elements, you have N arrays of 2 elements)?

[Roy Johnson]

It looks like we're working with the same data, though I don't think we're doing the same thing with it to get our results. Here's mine explained: Each stream stores its base (2, 3, or 5) and the multiplier last used with that base to generate an output element. To generate the next element of the sequence, I check what the next output would be from each stream (multiply the base by the last multiplier + 1) and choose the lowest of those, incrementing the multiplier of each stream that would give me that lowest number. That's it.

[demerphq]

Hmm. My variation uses the @v array to store the next value that would come from a given stream, and the @f array to store what value a given stream is incremented by when a value is "popped" from it. When it comes time to return the next value in the sequence the lowest value available is "popped" from the streams. If it could have also come from a stream with a smaller factor it is ignored and the process repeats otherwise the popped value is returned.

As far as I can tell this is basically the same thing as yours, except you multiply and I increment, and the way we handle dupes is slighlty different but the principle is the same. Its just interesting to me, I find the way identical algorithms can look so different at first glance to be fascinating.