Summarize and say sequence
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
There are several ways to generate a self-referential sequence. One very common one (the Look-and-say sequence) is to start with a positive integer, then generate the next term by concatenating enumerated groups of adjacent alike digits:
0, 10, 1110, 3110, 132110, 13122110, 111311222110 ...
The terms generated grow in length geometrically and never converge.
Another way to generate a self-referential sequence is to summarize the previous term.
Count how many of each alike digit there is, then concatenate the sum and digit for each of the sorted enumerated digits. Note that the first five terms are the same as for the previous sequence.
0, 10, 1110, 3110, 132110, 13123110, 23124110 ... see The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Sort the digits largest to smallest. Do not include counts of digits that do not appear in the previous term.
Depending on the seed value, series generated this way always either converge to a stable value or to a short cyclical pattern. (For our purposes, I'll use converge to mean an element matches a previously seen element.) The sequence shown, with a seed value of 0, converges to a stable value of 1433223110 after 11 iterations. The seed value that converges most quickly is 22. It goes stable after the first element. (The next element is 22, which has been seen before.)
Task:
Find all the positive integer seed values under 1000000, for the above convergent self-referential sequence, that takes the largest number of iterations before converging. Then print out the number of iterations and the sequence they return. Note that different permutations of the digits of the seed will yield the same sequence. For this task, assume leading zeros are not permitted.
Seed Value(s): 9009 9090 9900 Iterations: 21 Sequence: (same for all three seeds except for first element) 9009 2920 192210 19222110 19323110 1923123110 1923224110 191413323110 191433125110 19151423125110 19251413226110 1916151413325110 1916251423127110 191716151413326110 191726151423128110 19181716151413327110 19182716151423129110 29181716151413328110 19281716151423228110 19281716151413427110 19182716152413228110
See also: Self-describing numbers and Look-and-say sequence
AutoHotkey
Not optimized in the slightest. <lang AutoHotkey>
- The following directives and commands speed up execution
- NoEnv
SetBatchlines -1 ListLines Off Process, Priority,, high
iterations := 0, seed := "Seeds: "
Loop 1000000 If (newIterations := CountSubString(list := ListSequence(A_Index), "`n")) > iterations iterations := newiterations ,final := "`nIterations: " iterations+1 "`nSequence:`n`n" A_Index "`n" list ,seed := A_Index " " else if (newIterations = iterations) seed .= A_Index " " MsgBox % "Seeds: " . seed . final ListSequence(seed){ While !InStr("`n" . out, "`n" (d:=Describe(seed)) "`n") out .= d "`n", seed := d return out }
Describe(n){ Loop 10 If (t:=CountSubString(n, 10-A_Index)) out .= t . (10-A_Index) return out }
CountSubstring(fullstring, substring){
StringReplace, junk, fullstring, %substring%, , UseErrorLevel return errorlevel
} </lang> Output:
Seeds: 9009 9090 9900 Iterations: 21 Sequence: 9009 2920 192210 19222110 19323110 1923123110 1923224110 191413323110 191433125110 19151423125110 19251413226110 1916151413325110 1916251423127110 191716151413326110 191726151423128110 19181716151413327110 19182716151423129110 29181716151413328110 19281716151423228110 19281716151413427110 19182716152413228110
C
<lang c>#include <stdio.h>
- include <stdlib.h>
- include <string.h>
- define MAXN 1000000
int nn = 0; typedef struct rec_t rec_t, *rec; struct rec_t { int length; struct rec_t * p[10]; } *rec_root;
rec find_rec(char *s, rec root) { int c; rec next;
while ((c = *s++)) { c -= '0'; if (!(next = root->p[c])) { nn++; root->p[c] = next = calloc(1, sizeof(rec_t)); } root = next; } return root; }
void free_rec(rec root) { int i; if (!root) return;
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) free_rec(root->p[i]); free(root); }
void next_num(char *s) { int i = 0, cnt[10] = {0};
while (s[i]) cnt[s[i++] - '0']++; for (i = 9; i >= 0; i--) { if (!cnt[i]) continue; s += sprintf(s, "%d%c", cnt[i], i + '0'); } }
int get_len(char *s, int depth) { rec r = find_rec(s, rec_root); if (r->length > 0) return r->length;
depth++; if (!r->length) r->length = -depth; else r->length += depth;
next_num(s); depth = 1 + get_len(s, depth);
if (r->length <= 0) r->length = depth; return r->length; }
int main() { int longest[100], n_longest = 0; int i, l, ml = 0; char buf[32]; rec_root = calloc(1, sizeof(rec_t));
for (i = 0; i < MAXN; i++) { sprintf(buf, "%d", i); if ((l = get_len(buf, 0)) < ml) continue; if (l > ml) { n_longest = 0; ml = l; } longest[n_longest++] = i; }
printf("seq leng: %d\n", ml); for (i = 0; i < n_longest; i++) { sprintf(buf, "%d", longest[i]); /* print len+1 so we know repeating starts from when */ for (l = 0; l <= ml || !puts(""); next_num(buf), l++) printf("%2d: %s\n", get_len(buf, 0), buf); }
printf("alloc: %d\n", nn); /* free_rec(rec_root); */ return 0; }</lang>
CoffeeScript
This takes less than a second to run, even though the only real optimization is to exclude integers that don't have their digits descending.
<lang coffeescript> sequence = (n) ->
cnts = {} for c in n.toString() d = parseInt(c) incr cnts, d
seq = [] while true s = for i in [9..0] s += "#{cnts[i]}#{i}" if cnts[i] if s in seq break seq.push s new_cnts = {} for digit, cnt of cnts incr new_cnts, cnt incr new_cnts, digit cnts = new_cnts seq
incr = (h, k) ->
h[k] ?= 0 h[k] += 1
descending = (n) ->
return true if n < 10 tens = n / 10 return false if n % 10 > tens % 10 descending(tens)
max_len = 0 for i in [1..1000000]
if descending(i) seq = sequence(i) if seq.length > max_len max_len = seq.length max_seq = seq max_i = i
console.log max_i, max_seq
</lang>
Common Lisp
Doesn't do cache, and takes forever. <lang lisp>(defun count-and-say (str)
(let* ((s (sort (map 'list #'identity str) #'char>))
(out (list (first s) 0)))
(loop for x in s do
(if (char= x (first out)) (incf (second out)) (setf out (nconc (list x 1) out))))
(format nil "~{~a~^~}" (nreverse out))))
(defun ref-seq-len (n &optional doprint)
(let ((s (format nil "~d" n)) hist) (loop (push s hist)
(if doprint (format t "~a~%" s)) (setf s (count-and-say s)) (loop for item in hist for i from 0 to 2 do (if (string= s item) (return-from ref-seq-len (length hist)))))))
(defun find-longest (top)
(let (nums (len 0)) (dotimes (x top) (let ((l (ref-seq-len x))) (if (> l len) (setf len l nums nil)) (if (= l len) (push x nums)))) (list nums len)))
(let ((r (find-longest 1000000)))
(format t "Longest: ~a~%" r) (ref-seq-len (first (first r)) t))</lang>output<lang>Longest: ((9900 9090 9009) 21)
9900 2920 192210 19222110 19323110 1923123110 1923224110 191413323110 191433125110 19151423125110 19251413226110 1916151413325110 1916251423127110 191716151413326110 191726151423128110 19181716151413327110 19182716151423129110 29181716151413328110 19281716151423228110 19281716151413427110 19182716152413228110</lang>
D
Slow high-level version. <lang d>import std.stdio, std.algorithm, std.conv;
string[] selfReferentialSeq(string n, string[] seen=[]) {
static string[][string] cache; if (n in cache) return cache[n]; if (canFind(seen, n)) return [];
int[10] digit_count; foreach (d; n) digit_count[d - '0']++; string term; foreach_reverse (d; 0 .. 10) if (digit_count[d] > 0) term ~= text(digit_count[d], d); return cache[n] = [n] ~ selfReferentialSeq(term, [n] ~ seen);
}
void main() {
int limit = 1_000_000; int max_len; int[] max_vals;
foreach (n; 1 .. limit) { auto seq = selfReferentialSeq(text(n)); if (seq.length > max_len) { max_len = seq.length; max_vals = [n]; } else if (seq.length == max_len) max_vals ~= n; }
writeln("values: ", max_vals); writeln("iterations: ", max_len); writeln("sequence:"); foreach (idx, val; selfReferentialSeq(text(max_vals[0]))) writefln("%2d %s", idx + 1, val);
}</lang> Output:
values: [9009, 9090, 9900] iterations: 21 sequence: 1 9009 2 2920 3 192210 4 19222110 5 19323110 6 1923123110 7 1923224110 8 191413323110 9 191433125110 10 19151423125110 11 19251413226110 12 1916151413325110 13 1916251423127110 14 191716151413326110 15 191726151423128110 16 19181716151413327110 17 19182716151423129110 18 29181716151413328110 19 19281716151423228110 20 19281716151413427110 21 19182716152413228110
Runtime: less than 15 seconds.
Go
Brute force <lang go>package main
import (
"fmt" "strconv"
)
func main() {
var maxLen int var seqMaxLen [][]string for n := 1; n < 1e6; n++ { switch s := seq(n); { case len(s) == maxLen: seqMaxLen = append(seqMaxLen, s) case len(s) > maxLen: maxLen = len(s) seqMaxLen = [][]string{s} } } fmt.Println("Max sequence length:", maxLen) fmt.Println("Sequences:", len(seqMaxLen)) for _, seq := range seqMaxLen { fmt.Println("Sequence:") for _, t := range seq { fmt.Println(t) } }
}
func seq(n int) []string {
s := strconv.Itoa(n) ss := []string{s}
for { dSeq := sortD(s) d := dSeq[0] nd := 1 s = "" for i := 1; ; i++ { if i == len(dSeq) { s = fmt.Sprintf("%s%d%c", s, nd, d) break } if dSeq[i] == d { nd++ } else { s = fmt.Sprintf("%s%d%c", s, nd, d) d = dSeq[i] nd = 1 } } for _, s0 := range ss { if s == s0 { return ss } } ss = append(ss, s) } panic("unreachable")
}
func sortD(s string) []rune {
r := make([]rune, len(s)) for i, d := range s { j := 0 for ; j < i; j++ { if d > r[j] { copy(r[j+1:], r[j:i]) break } } r[j] = d } return r
}</lang> Output:
Max sequence length: 21 Sequences: 3 Sequence: 9009 2920 192210 19222110 19323110 1923123110 1923224110 191413323110 191433125110 19151423125110 19251413226110 1916151413325110 1916251423127110 191716151413326110 191726151423128110 19181716151413327110 19182716151423129110 29181716151413328110 19281716151423228110 19281716151413427110 19182716152413228110 Sequence: 9090 2920 ... 19182716152413228110 Sequence: 9900 2920 ... 19182716152413228110
Haskell
Brute force and quite slow: <lang haskell>import Data.Set (Set, member, insert, empty) import Data.List (group, sort)
step :: String -> String step = concatMap (\list -> show (length list) ++ [head list]) . group . sort
findCycle :: (Ord a) => [a] -> [a] findCycle = aux empty where aux set (x : xs) | x `member` set = [] | otherwise = x : aux (insert x set) xs
select :: a -> a select = snd . foldl (\(len, acc) xs -> case len `compare` length xs of LT -> (length xs, [xs]) EQ -> (len, xs : acc) GT -> (len, acc)) (0, [])
main :: IO () main = mapM_ (mapM_ print) $ -- Print out all the numbers select $ -- find the longest ones map findCycle $ -- run the sequences until there is a repeat map (iterate step) $ -- produce the sequence map show -- turn the numbers into digits [1..1000000] -- The input seeds </lang>
Icon and Unicon
<lang Icon>link printf
procedure main() every L := !longestselfrefseq(1000000) do
every printf(" %i : %i\n",i := 1 to *L,L[i])
end
procedure longestselfrefseq(N) #: find longest sequences from 1 to N
mlen := 0 every L := selfrefseq(n := 1 to N) do {
if mlen <:= *L then ML := [L] else if mlen = *L then put(ML,L) }
return ML end
procedure selfrefseq(n) #: return list of sequence oeis:A036058 for seed n S := set() L := [] every p := seq(1) do
if member(S,n) then return L # ends at a repeat else { insert(S,n) put(L,n) n := nextselfrefseq(n) }
end
procedure nextselfrefseq(n) #: return next element of sequence oeis:A036058 every (Counts := table(0))[integer(!n)] +:= 1 # count digits every (n := "") ||:= (0 < Counts[i := 9 to 0 by -1]) || i # assemble counts return integer(n) end</lang>
printf.icn provides printf, sprintf, fprintf, etc.
Sample of Output:
1 : 9009 2 : 2920 3 : 192210 4 : 19222110 5 : 19323110 6 : 1923123110 7 : 1923224110 8 : 191413323110 9 : 191433125110 10 : 19151423125110 11 : 19251413226110 12 : 1916151413325110 13 : 1916251423127110 14 : 191716151413326110 15 : 191726151423128110 16 : 19181716151413327110 17 : 19182716151423129110 18 : 29181716151413328110 19 : 19281716151423228110 20 : 19281716151413427110 21 : 19182716152413228110 1 : 9090 2 : 2920 ... (manually removed, same as above) 21 : 19182716152413228110 1 : 9900 2 : 2920 ... (manually removed, same as above) 21 : 19182716152413228110
The following (admittedly overdense) version produces output matching the problem statement and avoids repeating sequences that arise from 'similar' seeds. It does not assume that only one equivalence class of similar seeds exists at the maximum sequence length. As with the first example, it works in both Icon and Unicon. <lang Unicon> link strings # to get csort()
procedure main(A)
limit := A[1] | 1000000 # Allow alternate limit mSq := 0 # May have multiple 'unique' sequence sets (unrelated seeds) so use table every s := [n := 1 to limit, sequence(n)] do { if mSq <:= *s[2] then mT := table() # new max, start over if mSq == *s[2] then insert((/mT[n := csort(n)] := set()) | mT[n],s) } dumpSequences(mT)
end
procedure sequence(n) # produce sequence of SDS with seed n
every (repeats := [], iter := seq(), put(repeats, n)) do if (n := nElem(n)) == !repeats then return repeats # Converged
end
procedure nElem(n) # given n, produce its self-description
every (n1 := "", c := !cset(n)) do (every (d := 0) +:= (upto(c, n),1)) | (n1 := d||c||n1) return n1
end
procedure dumpSequences(seqTab) # Show each 'unique' sequence in table
every writes("Seeds:" | (!!seqTab)[1], " ") write("\n\nIterations: ",*(!!seqTab)[2]) every s := !seqTab do (write() & every write(!(!s\1)[2]))
end </lang> Output with limit = 1000000:
Seeds: 9009 9090 9900 Iterations: 21 9009 2920 192210 19222110 19323110 1923123110 1923224110 191413323110 191433125110 19151423125110 19251413226110 1916151413325110 1916251423127110 191716151413326110 191726151423128110 19181716151413327110 19182716151423129110 29181716151413328110 19281716151423228110 19281716151413427110 19182716152413228110
J
Given: <lang j>require'stats' digits=: 10&#.inv"0 :. ([: ".@; (<'x'),~":&.>) summar=: (#/.~ ,@,. ~.)@\:~&.digits sequen=: ~.@(, summar@{:)^:_ values=: ~. \:~&.digits i.1e6 allvar=: [:(#~(=&<.&(10&^.) >./))@~.({~ perm@#)&.(digits"1) </lang>
The values with the longest sequence are:
<lang j> ;allvar&.> values #~ (= >./) #@sequen"0 values 9900 9090 9009
# sequen 9900
21
,.sequen 9900 9900 2920 192210 19222110 19323110 1923123110 1923224110 191413323110 191433125110 19151423125110 19251413226110 1916151413325110 1916251423127110 191716151413326110 191726151423128110
19181716151413327110 19182716151423129110 29181716151413328110 19281716151423228110 19281716151413427110 19182716152413228110</lang>
Notes:
digits
is an invertible function that maps from a number to a sequence of digits and back where the inverse transform converts numbers to strings, concatenates them, and then back to a number.
<lang j> digits 321 3 2 1
digits inv 34 5
345</lang>
summar
computes the summary successor.
<lang j> summar 0 1 2 10 11 12</lang>
sequen
computes the complete non-repeating sequence of summary successors
The computation for values
could have been made much more efficient. Instead, though, all one million integers have their digits sorted in decreasing order, and then the unique set of them is found.
Finally, allvar
finds all variations of a number which would have the same summary sequence based on the permutations of that number's digits.
Mathematica
<lang Mathematica>selfRefSequence[ x_ ] := FromDigits@Flatten@Reverse@Cases[Transpose@{RotateRight[DigitCount@x,1], Range[0,9]},Except[{0,_}]] DisplaySequence[ x_ ] := NestWhileList[selfRefSequence,x,UnsameQ[##]&,4] data= {#, Length@DisplaySequence[#]}&/@Range[1000000]; Print["Values: ", Select[data ,#2 == Max@data;;,2&]1,;;] Print["Iterations: ", Length@DisplaySequence[#]&/@Select[data ,#2 == Max@data;;,2&]1,;;] DisplaySequence@Select[data, #2 == Max@data;;,2&]1//Column</lang>
Values: {9009, 9090, 9900} Iterations: 21 9009 2920 192210 19222110 19323110 1923123110 1923224110 191413323110 191433125110 19151423125110 19251413226110 1916151413325110 1916251423127110 191716151413326110 191726151423128110 19181716151413327110 19182716151423129110 29181716151413328110 19281716151423228110 19281716151413427110 19182716152413228110 19281716151413427110
Perl
<lang perl>sub next_num { my @a; $a[$_]++ for split , shift; join(, map(exists $a[$_] ? $a[$_].$_ : "", reverse 0 .. 9)); }
my %cache; sub seq { my $a = shift; my (%seen, @s); until ($seen{$a}) { $seen{$a} = 1; push(@s, $a); last if !wantarray && $cache{$a}; $a = next_num($a); } return (@s) if wantarray;
my $l = $cache{$a}; if ($l) { $cache{$s[$_]} = $#s - $_ + $l for (0 .. $#s); } else { $l++ while ($s[-$l] != $a); $cache{pop @s} = $l for (1 .. $l); $cache{pop @s} = ++$l while @s; } $cache{$s[0]} }
my (@mlist, $mlen); for (1 .. 100_000) { # 1_000_000 takes very, very long my $l = seq($_); next if $l < $mlen;
if ($l > $mlen) { $mlen = $l; @mlist = (); } push @mlist, $_; }
print "longest ($mlen): @mlist\n"; print join("\n", seq($_)), "\n\n" for @mlist;</lang> --Bbsingapore 10:49, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Perl 6
<lang perl6>my @list; my $longest = 0; my %seen;
for 1 .. 1000000 -> $m {
next unless $m ~~ /0/; # seed must have a zero my $j = join , $m.comb.sort; next if %seen.exists($j); # already tested a permutation %seen{$j} = ; my @seq := converging($m); my %elems; my $count; for @seq[] -> $value { last if ++%elems{$value} == 2; $count++; }; if $longest == $count { @list.push($m); say "\b" x 20, "$count, $m"; # monitor progress } elsif $longest < $count { $longest = $count; @list = $m; say "\b" x 20, "$count, $m"; # monitor progress }
};
for @list -> $m {
say "Seed Value(s): ", ~permutations($m).uniq.grep( { .substr(0,1) != 0 } ); my @seq := converging($m); my %elems; my $count; for @seq[] -> $value { last if ++%elems{$value} == 2; $count++; }; say "\nIterations: ", $count; say "\nSequence: (Only one shown per permutation group.)"; .say for @seq[^$count], "\n";
}
sub converging ($seed) { return $seed, -> $l { join , map { $_.value.elems~$_.key }, $l.comb.classify({$^b}).sort: {-$^c.key} } ... * }
sub permutations ($string, $sofar? = ) {
return $sofar unless $string.chars; my @perms; for ^$string.chars -> $idx { my $this = $string.substr(0,$idx)~$string.substr($idx+1); my $char = substr($string, $idx,1); @perms.push( permutations( $this, join , $sofar, $char ) ) ; } return @perms;
}</lang>
Output:
Seed Value(s): 9009 9090 9900 Iterations: 21 Sequence: (Only one shown per permutation group.) 9009 2920 192210 19222110 19323110 1923123110 1923224110 191413323110 191433125110 19151423125110 19251413226110 1916151413325110 1916251423127110 191716151413326110 191726151423128110 19181716151413327110 19182716151423129110 29181716151413328110 19281716151423228110 19281716151413427110 19182716152413228110
PicoLisp
Using 'las' from Look-and-say sequence#PicoLisp: <lang PicoLisp>(de selfRefSequence (Seed)
(let L (mapcar format (chop Seed)) (make (for (Cache NIL (not (idx 'Cache L T))) (setq L (las (flip (sort (copy (link L))))) ) ) ) ) )
(let Res NIL
(for Seed 1000000 (let N (length (selfRefSequence Seed)) (cond ((> N (car Res)) (setq Res (list N Seed))) ((= N (car Res)) (queue 'Res Seed)) ) ) ) (println 'Values: (cdr Res)) (println 'Iterations: (car Res)) (mapc prinl (selfRefSequence (cadr Res))) )</lang>
Output:
Values: (9009 9090 9900) Iterations: 21 9009 2920 192210 19222110 19323110 1923123110 1923224110 191413323110 191433125110 19151423125110 19251413226110 1916151413325110 1916251423127110 191716151413326110 191726151423128110 19181716151413327110 19182716151423129110 29181716151413328110 19281716151423228110 19281716151413427110 19182716152413228110
Python
The number generation function follows that of Look-and-say with a sort. only the first of any set of numbers with the same digits has the length of its sequence calculated in function max_A036058_length, although no timings were taken to check if the optimisation was of value.
<lang python>from itertools import groupby, permutations
def A036058(number):
return .join( str(len(list(g))) + k for k,g in groupby(sorted(str(number), reverse=True)) )
def A036058_length(numberstring='0', printit=False):
iterations, last_three, queue_index = 1, ([None] * 3), 0
def A036058(number): # rely on external reverse-sort of digits of number return .join( str(len(list(g))) + k for k,g in groupby(number) )
while True: if printit: print(" %2i %s" % (iterations, numberstring)) numberstring = .join(sorted(numberstring, reverse=True)) if numberstring in last_three: break assert iterations < 1000000 last_three[queue_index], numberstring = numberstring, A036058(numberstring) iterations += 1 queue_index +=1 queue_index %=3 return iterations
def max_A036058_length( start_range=range(11) ):
already_done = set() max_len = (-1, []) for n in start_range: sn = str(n) sns = tuple(sorted(sn, reverse=True)) if sns not in already_done: already_done.add(sns) size = A036058_length(sns) if size > max_len[0]: max_len = (size, [n]) elif size == max_len[0]: max_len[1].append(n) return max_len
lenmax, starts = max_A036058_length( range(1000000) )
- Expand
allstarts = [] for n in starts:
allstarts += [int(.join(x)) for x in set(k for k in permutations(str(n), 4) if k[0] != '0')]
allstarts = [x for x in sorted(allstarts) if x < 1000000]
print ( \ The longest length, followed by the number(s) with the longest sequence length for starting sequence numbers below 1000000 are:
Iterations = %i and sequence-starts = %s. % (lenmax, allstarts) )
print ( Note that only the first of any sequences with the same digits is printed below. (The others will differ only in their first term) )
for n in starts:
print() A036058_length(str(n), printit=True)</lang>
- Output
The longest length, followed by the number(s) with the longest sequence length for starting sequence numbers below 1000000 are: Iterations = 21 and sequence-starts = [9009, 9090, 9900]. Note that only the first of any sequences with the same digits is printed below. (The others will differ only in their first term) 1 9009 2 2920 3 192210 4 19222110 5 19323110 6 1923123110 7 1923224110 8 191413323110 9 191433125110 10 19151423125110 11 19251413226110 12 1916151413325110 13 1916251423127110 14 191716151413326110 15 191726151423128110 16 19181716151413327110 17 19182716151423129110 18 29181716151413328110 19 19281716151423228110 20 19281716151413427110 21 19182716152413228110
Ruby
Cached for performance <lang ruby>$cache = {} def selfReferentialSequence_cached(n, seen = [])
return $cache[n] if $cache.include? n return [] if seen.include? n
digit_count = Array.new(10, 0) n.to_s.chars.collect {|char| digit_count[char.to_i] += 1} term = 9.downto(0).each do |d| if digit_count[d] > 0 term += digit_count[d].to_s + d.to_s end end term = term.to_i $cache[n] = [n] + selfReferentialSequence_cached(term, [n] + seen)
end
limit = 1_000_000 max_len = 0 max_vals = []
1.upto(limit - 1) do |n|
seq = selfReferentialSequence_cached(n) if seq.length > max_len max_len = seq.length max_vals = [n] elsif seq.length == max_len max_vals << n end
end
puts "values: #{max_vals.inspect}" puts "iterations: #{max_len}" puts "sequence:" selfReferentialSequence_cached(max_vals[0]).each_with_index do |val, idx|
puts "%2d %d" % [idx + 1, val]
end</lang> output
values: [9009, 9090, 9900] iterations: 21 sequence: 1 9009 2 2920 3 192210 4 19222110 5 19323110 6 1923123110 7 1923224110 8 191413323110 9 191433125110 10 19151423125110 11 19251413226110 12 1916151413325110 13 1916251423127110 14 191716151413326110 15 191726151423128110 16 19181716151413327110 17 19182716151423129110 18 29181716151413328110 19 19281716151423228110 20 19281716151413427110 21 19182716152413228110
Tcl
<lang tcl>proc nextterm n {
foreach c [split $n ""] {incr t($c)} foreach c {9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0} {
if {[info exist t($c)]} {append r $t($c) $c}
} return $r
}
- Local context of lambda term is just for speed
apply {limit {
# Build a digit cache; this adds quite a bit of speed set done [lrepeat [set l2 [expr {$limit * 100}]] 0] # Iterate over search space set maxlen 0 set maxes {} for {set i 0} {$i < $limit} {incr i} {
if {[lindex $done $i]} continue # Compute the sequence length for this value (with help from cache) set seq {} for {set seed $i} {$seed ni $seq} {set seed [nextterm $seed]} { if {$seed < $l2 && [lindex $done $seed]} { set len [expr {[llength $seq] + [lindex $done $seed]}] break } set len [llength [lappend seq $seed]] } # What are we going to do about it? if {$len > $maxlen} { set maxlen $len set maxes [list $i] } elseif {$len == $maxlen} { lappend maxes $i } # Update the cache with what we have learned foreach n $seq { if {$n < $l2} {lset done $n $len} incr len -1 }
} # Output code puts "max length: $maxlen" foreach c $maxes {puts $c} puts "Sample max-len sequence:" set seq {} # Rerun the sequence generator for printing; faster for large limits for {set seed [lindex $c 0]} {$seed ni $seq} {set seed [nextterm $seed]} {
lappend seq $seed
puts "\t$seed" }
}} 1000000</lang> Output:
max length: 21 9009 9090 9900 Sample max-len sequence: 9900 2920 192210 19222110 19323110 1923123110 1923224110 191413323110 191433125110 19151423125110 19251413226110 1916151413325110 1916251423127110 191716151413326110 191726151423128110 19181716151413327110 19182716151423129110 29181716151413328110 19281716151423228110 19281716151413427110 19182716152413228110