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| otherwise = (v - 2.2506 , 0.5771 ) -- says WP
| otherwise = (v - 2.2506 , 0.5771 ) -- says WP
where v = (6*lb3*lb5* fromIntegral n)**(1/3) -- estimated logval, base 2
where v = (6*lb3*lb5* fromIntegral n)**(1/3) -- estimated logval, base 2
prod (f,g) (x,y) = (f x, g y)
nthHam :: Integer -> (Double, (Int, Int, Int)) -- ( 64bit: use Int!!! NB! )
nthHam :: Integer -> (Double, (Int, Int, Int)) -- ( 64bit: use Int!!! NB! )
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j <- [ 0 .. floor ((hi-p)/lb3) ], let q = fromIntegral j*lb3 + p,
j <- [ 0 .. floor ((hi-p)/lb3) ], let q = fromIntegral j*lb3 + p,
let (i,frac) = pr (hi-q) ; r = hi - frac -- r = i + q
let (i,frac) = pr (hi-q) ; r = hi - frac -- r = i + q
] where pr = properFraction -- pr 1.24 => (1,0.24)</lang>
] where pr = properFraction -- pr 1.24 => (1,0.24)
prod (f,g) (x,y) = (f x, g y)</lang>
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Revision as of 18:42, 21 August 2016

Task
Hamming numbers
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.

Hamming numbers are numbers of the form  

       H  =  2i × 3j × 5k 

where

            i, j, k  ≥  0 

Hamming numbers   are also known as   ugly numbers   and also   5-smooth numbers   (numbers whose prime divisors are less or equal to 5).


Task

Generate the sequence of Hamming numbers, in increasing order.   In particular:

  1. Show the   first twenty   Hamming numbers.
  2. Show the   1691st   Hamming number (the last one below   231).
  3. Show the   one millionth   Hamming number (if the language – or a convenient library – supports arbitrary-precision integers).


References



Ada

Works with: GNAT

GNAT provides the datatypes Integer, Long_Integer and Long_Long_Integer.

Values for GNAT Pro 6.3.1, 64 bit Linux version:

  • Integer covers the range -2**31 .. 2**31-1 (-2147483648 .. 2147483647).
  • Long_Integer and Long_Long_Integer cover the range -2**63 .. 2**63-1 (-9223372036854775808 .. 9223372036854775807).

Using your own modular integer type (for example type My_Unsigned_Integer is mod 2**64;), you can expand the range to 0 .. 18446744073709551615, but this still is not enough for the millionth Hamming number.

For bigger numbers, you have to use an external library, for example Big_Number.

The code for calculating the Hamming numbers is kept generic, to easily expand the range by changing the concrete type. <lang Ada>with Ada.Text_IO; procedure Hamming is

  generic
     type Int_Type is private;
     Zero  : Int_Type;
     One   : Int_Type;
     Two   : Int_Type;
     Three : Int_Type;
     Five  : Int_Type;
     with function "mod" (Left, Right : Int_Type) return Int_Type is <>;
     with function "/"   (Left, Right : Int_Type) return Int_Type is <>;
     with function "+"   (Left, Right : Int_Type) return Int_Type is <>;
  function Get_Hamming (Position : Positive) return Int_Type;
  function Get_Hamming (Position : Positive) return Int_Type is
     function Is_Hamming (Number : Int_Type) return Boolean is
        Temporary : Int_Type := Number;
     begin
        while Temporary mod Two = Zero loop
           Temporary := Temporary / Two;
        end loop;
        while Temporary mod Three = Zero loop
           Temporary := Temporary / Three;
        end loop;
        while Temporary mod Five = Zero loop
           Temporary := Temporary / Five;
        end loop;
        return Temporary = One;
     end Is_Hamming;
     Result   : Int_Type := One;
     Previous : Positive := 1;
  begin
     while Previous /= Position loop
        Result := Result + One;
        if Is_Hamming (Result) then
           Previous := Previous + 1;
        end if;
     end loop;
     return Result;
  end Get_Hamming;
  -- up to 2**32 - 1
  function Integer_Get_Hamming is new Get_Hamming
     (Int_Type => Integer,
      Zero     => 0,
      One      => 1,
      Two      => 2,
      Three    => 3,
      Five     => 5);
  -- up to 2**64 - 1
  function Long_Long_Integer_Get_Hamming is new Get_Hamming
     (Int_Type => Long_Long_Integer,
      Zero     => 0,
      One      => 1,
      Two      => 2,
      Three    => 3,
      Five     => 5);

begin

  Ada.Text_IO.Put ("1) First 20 Hamming numbers: ");
  for I in 1 .. 20 loop
     Ada.Text_IO.Put (Integer'Image (Integer_Get_Hamming (I)));
  end loop;
  Ada.Text_IO.New_Line;
  Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("2) 1_691st Hamming number: " &
     Integer'Image (Integer_Get_Hamming (1_691)));
  -- even Long_Long_Integer overflows here
  Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("3) 1_000_000st Hamming number: " &
     Long_Long_Integer'Image (Long_Long_Integer_Get_Hamming (1_000_000)));

end Hamming;</lang>

Output:
1) First 20 Hamming numbers:  1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
2) 1_691 st Hamming number:  2125764000

Execution terminated by unhandled exception
Exception name: CONSTRAINT_ERROR
Message: hamming.adb:34 overflow check failed
Call stack traceback locations:
0x403212 0x402fd7 0x402a87 0x7f8b99517584 0x4026d7

For using Big_Number, you just have to add this to the code (additional to with Big_Number; and with Ada.Strings.Unbounded; in context clause): <lang Ada> type My_Index is mod 2**8;

  package My_Big_Numbers is new Big_Number (Index_type => My_Index, Nb_Item => 64);
  function Int2Big is new My_Big_Numbers.Generic_Conversion.Int_Number2Big_Unsigned (Integer);
  function Big_Get_Hamming is new Get_Hamming
     (Int_Type => My_Big_Numbers.Big_Unsigned,
      Zero     => My_Big_Numbers.Big_Unsigned_Zero,
      One      => My_Big_Numbers.Big_Unsigned_One,
      Two      => My_Big_Numbers.Big_Unsigned_Two,
      Three    => Int2Big(3),
      Five     => Int2Big(5),
      "mod"    => My_Big_Numbers.Unsigned_Number."mod",
      "+"      => My_Big_Numbers.Unsigned_Number."+",
      "/"      => My_Big_Numbers.Unsigned_Number."/");</lang>

and then use it like this: <lang Ada> Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("3) 1_000_000st Hamming number: " &

     Ada.Strings.Unbounded.To_String (My_Big_Numbers.String_Conversion.Big_Unsigned2UString (Big_Get_Hamming (1_000_000))));</lang>

ALGOL 68

Hamming numbers are generated in a trivial iterative way as in the Python version below. This program keeps the series needed to generate the numbers as short as possible using flexible rows; on the downside, it spends considerable time on garbage collection. <lang algol68>PR precision=100 PR

MODE SERIES = FLEX [1 : 0] UNT, # Initially, no elements #

    UNT = LONG LONG INT; # A 100-digit unsigned integer #

PROC hamming number = (INT n) UNT: # The n-th Hamming number #

    CASE n
    IN 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 # First 10 in a table #
    OUT # Additional operators #
        OP MIN = (INT i, j) INT: (i < j | i | j), MIN = (UNT i, j) UNT: (i < j | i | j);
        PRIO MIN = 9;
        OP LAST = (SERIES h) UNT: h[UPB h]; # Last element of a series #
        OP +:= = (REF SERIES s, UNT elem) VOID:
           # Extend a series by one element, only keep the elements you need #
           (INT lwb = (i MIN j) MIN k, upb = UPB s; 
            REF SERIES new s = HEAP FLEX [lwb : upb + 1] UNT;
            (new s[lwb : upb] := s[lwb : upb], new s[upb + 1] := elem);
            s := new s
           );
        # Determine the n-th hamming number iteratively #
        SERIES h := 1, # Series, initially one element #
        UNT m2 := 2, m3 := 3, m5 := 5, # Multipliers #
        INT i := 1, j := 1, k := 1; # Counters #
        TO n - 1
        DO h +:= (m2 MIN m3) MIN m5;
           (LAST h = m2 | m2 := 2 * h[i +:= 1]);
           (LAST h = m3 | m3 := 3 * h[j +:= 1]);
           (LAST h = m5 | m5 := 5 * h[k +:= 1])
        OD;
        LAST h
    ESAC;

FOR k TO 20 DO print ((whole (hamming number (k), 0), blank)) OD; print ((newline, whole (hamming number (1 691), 0))); print ((newline, whole (hamming number (1 000 000), 0)))</lang>

Output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36 
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

ATS

<lang ATS> // // How to compile: // patscc -DATS_MEMALLOC_LIBC -o hamming hamming.dats //

  1. include

"share/atspre_staload.hats"

fun min3 (

 A: arrayref(int, 3)

) : natLt(3) = i where {

 var x: int = A[0]
 var i: natLt(3) = 0
 val () = if A[1] < x then (x := A[1]; i := 1)
 val () = if A[2] < x then (x := A[2]; i := 2)

} (* end of [min3] *)

fun hamming {n:pos} (

 n: int(n)

) : int = let // var A = @[int](2, 3, 5) val A = $UNSAFE.cast{arrayref(int, 3)}(addr@A) var I = @[int](1, 1, 1) val I = $UNSAFE.cast{arrayref(int, 3)}(addr@I) val H = arrayref_make_elt<int> (i2sz(succ(n)), 0) val () = H[0] := 1 // fun loop{k:pos}

 (k: int(k)) : void =

( // if k < n then let

 val i = min3(A)
 val k =
 (
   if A[i] > H[k-1] then (H[k] := A[i]; k+1) else k
 ) : intBtwe(k, k+1)
 val ii = I[i]
 val () = I[i] := ii+1
 val ii = $UNSAFE.cast{natLte(n)}(ii)
 val () = if i = 0 then A[i] := 2*H[ii]
 val () = if i = 1 then A[i] := 3*H[ii]
 val () = if i = 2 then A[i] := 5*H[ii]

in

 loop(k)

end // end of [then] else () // end of [else] // ) (* end of [loop] *) // in

 loop (1); H[n-1]

end (* end of [hamming] *)

implement main0 () = { val () = loop(1) where { fun loop {n:pos} (

 n: int(n)

) : void = if n <= 20 then let

 val () =
 println! ("hamming(",n,") = ", hamming(n))

in

 loop(n+1)

end // end of [then] // end of [if] } (* end of [val] *) val n = 1691 val () = println! ("hamming(",n,") = ", hamming(n)) // } (* end of [main0] *) </lang>

Output:
hamming(1) = 1
hamming(2) = 2
hamming(3) = 3
hamming(4) = 4
hamming(5) = 5
hamming(6) = 6
hamming(7) = 8
hamming(8) = 9
hamming(9) = 10
hamming(10) = 12
hamming(11) = 15
hamming(12) = 16
hamming(13) = 18
hamming(14) = 20
hamming(15) = 24
hamming(16) = 25
hamming(17) = 27
hamming(18) = 30
hamming(19) = 32
hamming(20) = 36
hamming(1691) = 2125764000

AutoHotkey

<lang AutoHotKey>SetBatchLines, -1 Msgbox % hamming(1,20) Msgbox % hamming(1690) return

hamming(first,last=0) { if (first < 1) ans=ERROR

if (last = 0) last := first

i:=0, j:=0, k:=0

num1 := ceil((last * 20)**(1/3)) num2 := ceil(num1 * ln(2)/ln(3)) num3 := ceil(num1 * ln(2)/ln(5))

loop { H := (2**i) * (3**j) * (5**k) if (H > 0) ans = %H%`n%ans% i++ if (i > num1) { i=0 j++ if (j > num2) { j=0 k++ } } if (k > num3) break } Sort ans, N

Loop, parse, ans, `n, `r { if (A_index > last) break if (A_index < first) continue Output = %Output%`n%A_LoopField% }

return Output }</lang>

AWK

<lang AWK>

  1. syntax: GAWK -f HAMMING_NUMBERS.AWK

BEGIN {

   for (i=1; i<=20; i++) {
     printf("%d ",hamming(i))
   }
   printf("\n1691: %d\n",hamming(1691))
   exit(0)

} function hamming(limit, h,i,j,k,n,x2,x3,x5) {

   h[0] = 1
   x2 = 2
   x3 = 3
   x5 = 5
   for (n=1; n<=limit; n++) {
     h[n] = min(x2,min(x3,x5))
     if (h[n] == x2) { x2 = 2 * h[++i] }
     if (h[n] == x3) { x3 = 3 * h[++j] }
     if (h[n] == x5) { x5 = 5 * h[++k] }
   }
   return(h[limit-1])

} function min(x,y) {

   return((x < y) ? x : y)

} </lang>

Output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
1691: 2125764000

BBC BASIC

<lang bbcbasic> @% = &1010

     FOR h% = 1 TO 20
       PRINT "H("; h% ") = "; FNhamming(h%)
     NEXT
     PRINT "H(1691) = "; FNhamming(1691)
     END
     
     DEF FNhamming(l%)
     LOCAL i%, j%, k%, n%, m, x2, x3, x5, h%()
     DIM h%(l%) : h%(0) = 1
     x2 = 2 : x3 = 3 : x5 = 5
     FOR n% = 1 TO l%-1
       m = x2
       IF m > x3 m = x3
       IF m > x5 m = x5
       h%(n%) = m
       IF m = x2 i% += 1 : x2 = 2 * h%(i%)
       IF m = x3 j% += 1 : x3 = 3 * h%(j%)
       IF m = x5 k% += 1 : x5 = 5 * h%(k%)
     NEXT
     = h%(l%-1)</lang>
Output:
H(1) = 1
H(2) = 2
H(3) = 3
H(4) = 4
H(5) = 5
H(6) = 6
H(7) = 8
H(8) = 9
H(9) = 10
H(10) = 12
H(11) = 15
H(12) = 16
H(13) = 18
H(14) = 20
H(15) = 24
H(16) = 25
H(17) = 27
H(18) = 30
H(19) = 32
H(20) = 36
H(1691) = 2125764000

Bracmat

Translation of: D

<lang bracmat>( ( hamming

 =   x2 x3 x5 n i j k min
   .   tbl$(h,!arg)        { This creates an array. Arrays are always global in Bracmat. }
     & 1:?(0$h)
     & 2:?x2
     & 3:?x3
     & 5:?x5
     & 0:?n:?i:?j:?k
     &   whl
       ' ( !n+1:<!arg:?n
         & !x2:?min
         & (!x3:<!min:?min|)
         & (!x5:<!min:?min|)
         & !min:?(!n$h)               { !n is index into array h }
         & (   !x2:!min
             & 2*!((1+!i:?i)$h):?x2
           |
           )
         & (   !x3:!min
             & 3*!((1+!j:?j)$h):?x3
           |
           )
         & (   !x5:!min
             & 5*!((1+!k:?k)$h):?x5
           |
           )
         )
     & !((!arg+-1)$h) (tbl$(h,0)&)    { We delete the array by setting its size to 0 }
 )

& 0:?I & whl'(!I+1:~>20:?I&put$(hamming$!I " ")) & out$ & out$(hamming$1691) & out$(hamming$1000000) );</lang>

Output:
1  2  3  4  5  6  8  9  10  12  15  16  18  20  24  25  27  30  32  36
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

C

Using a min-heap to keep track of numbers. Does not handle big integers. <lang c>#include <stdio.h>

  1. include <stdlib.h>

typedef unsigned long long ham;

size_t alloc = 0, n = 1; ham *q = 0;

void qpush(ham h) { int i, j; if (alloc <= n) { alloc = alloc ? alloc * 2 : 16; q = realloc(q, sizeof(ham) * alloc); }

for (i = n++; (j = i/2) && q[j] > h; q[i] = q[j], i = j); q[i] = h; }

ham qpop() { int i, j; ham r, t; /* outer loop for skipping duplicates */ for (r = q[1]; n > 1 && r == q[1]; q[i] = t) { /* inner loop is the normal down heap routine */ for (i = 1, t = q[--n]; (j = i * 2) < n;) { if (j + 1 < n && q[j] > q[j+1]) j++; if (t <= q[j]) break; q[i] = q[j], i = j; } }

return r; }

int main() { int i; ham h;

for (qpush(i = 1); i <= 1691; i++) { /* takes smallest value, and queue its multiples */ h = qpop(); qpush(h * 2); qpush(h * 3); qpush(h * 5);

if (i <= 20 || i == 1691) printf("%6d: %llu\n", i, h); }

/* free(q); */ return 0; }</lang>

Alternative

Standard algorithm. Numbers are stored as exponents of factors instead of big integers, while GMP is only used for display. It's much more efficient this way. <lang c>#include <stdio.h>

  1. include <stdlib.h>
  2. include <string.h>
  3. include <math.h>
  4. include <gmp.h>

/* number of factors. best be mutually prime -- duh. */

  1. define NK 3
  2. define MAX_HAM (1 << 24)
  3. define MAX_POW 1024

int n_hams = 0, idx[NK] = {0}, fac[] = { 2, 3, 5, 7, 11};

/* k-smooth numbers are stored as their exponents of each factor;

   v is the log of the number, for convenience. */

typedef struct { int e[NK]; double v; } ham_t, *ham;

ham_t *hams, values[NK] = {{{0}, 0}}; double inc[NK][MAX_POW];

/* most of the time v can be just incremented, but eventually

* floating point precision will bite us, so better recalculate */

inline void _setv(ham x) { int i; for (x->v = 0, i = 0; i < NK; i++) x->v += inc[i][x->e[i]]; }

inline int _eq(ham a, ham b) { int i; for (i = 0; i < NK && a->e[i] == b->e[i]; i++);

return i == NK; }

ham get_ham(int n) { int i, ni; ham h;

n--; while (n_hams < n) { for (ni = 0, i = 1; i < NK; i++) if (values[i].v < values[ni].v) ni = i;

*(h = hams + ++n_hams) = values[ni];

for (ni = 0; ni < NK; ni++) { if (! _eq(values + ni, h)) continue; values[ni] = hams[++idx[ni]]; values[ni].e[ni]++; _setv(values + ni); } }

return hams + n; }

void show_ham(ham h) { static mpz_t das_ham, tmp; int i;

	mpz_init_set_ui(das_ham, 1);

mpz_init_set_ui(tmp, 1); for (i = 0; i < NK; i++) { mpz_ui_pow_ui(tmp, fac[i], h->e[i]); mpz_mul(das_ham, das_ham, tmp); } gmp_printf("%Zu\n", das_ham); }

int main() { int i, j; hams = malloc(sizeof(ham_t) * MAX_HAM);

for (i = 0; i < NK; i++) { values[i].e[i] = 1; inc[i][1] = log(fac[i]); _setv(values + i);

for (j = 2; j < MAX_POW; j++) inc[i][j] = j * inc[i][1]; }

printf(" 1,691: "); show_ham(get_ham(1691)); printf(" 1,000,000: "); show_ham(get_ham(1e6)); printf("10,000,000: "); show_ham(get_ham(1e7)); return 0; }</lang>

Output:
     1,691: 2125764000
 1,000,000: 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
10,000,000: 16244105063830431823239 ..<a gadzillion digits>.. 000000000000000000000

C#

Translation of: D

<lang csharp>using System; using System.Numerics; using System.Linq;

namespace Hamming {

   class MainClass {
       public static BigInteger Hamming(int n) {
           BigInteger two = 2, three = 3, five = 5;
           var h = new BigInteger[n];
           h[0] = 1;
           BigInteger x2 = 2, x3 = 3, x5 = 5;
           int i = 0, j = 0, k = 0;
           
           for (int index = 1; index < n; index++) {
               h[index] = BigInteger.Min(x2, BigInteger.Min(x3, x5));
               if (h[index] == x2) x2 = two * h[++i];
               if (h[index] == x3) x3 = three * h[++j];
               if (h[index] == x5) x5 = five * h[++k];
           }
           return h[n - 1];
       }
       public static void Main(string[] args) {
           Console.WriteLine(string.Join(" ", Enumerable.Range(1, 20).ToList().Select(x => Hamming(x))));
           Console.WriteLine(Hamming(1691));
           Console.WriteLine(Hamming(1000000));
       }
   }

}</lang>

Output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Generic version for any set of numbers

The algorithm is similar to the one above. <lang csharp>using System; using System.Numerics; using System.Linq;

namespace Hamming {

   class MainClass {
       public static BigInteger[] Hamming(int n, int[] a) {
           var primes = a.Select(x => (BigInteger)x).ToArray();
           var values = a.Select(x => (BigInteger)x).ToArray();
           var indexes = new int[a.Length];
           var results = new BigInteger[n];
           results[0] = 1;
           for (int iter = 1; iter < n; iter++) {
               results[iter] = values[0];
               for (int p = 1; p < primes.Length; p++)
                   if (results[iter] > values[p])
                       results[iter] = values[p];
               for (int p = 0; p < primes.Length; p++)
                   if (results[iter] == values[p])
                       values[p] = primes[p] * results[++indexes[p]];
           }
           return results;
       }
       
       public static void Main(string[] args) {
           foreach (int[] primes in new int[][] { new int[] {2,3,5}, new int[] {2,3,5,7} }) {
               Console.WriteLine("{0}-Smooth:", primes.Last());
               Console.WriteLine(string.Join(" ", Hamming(20, primes)));
               Console.WriteLine(Hamming(1691, primes).Last());
               Console.WriteLine(Hamming(1000000, primes).Last());
               Console.WriteLine();
           }
       }
   }

}</lang>

Output:
5-Smooth:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

7-Smooth:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 14 15 16 18 20 21 24 25 27
3317760
4157409948433216829957008507500000000

Fast version

Like some of the other implementations on this page, this version represents each number as a list of exponents which would be applied to each prime number. So the number 60 would be represented as int[3] { 2, 1, 1 } which is interpreted as 2^2 * 3^1 * 5^1.

As often happens, optimizing for speed caused a marked increase in code size and complexity. Clearly the versions I wrote above are easier to read & understand. They were also much quicker to write. But the generic version above runs in 3+ seconds for the 1000000th 5-smooth number whereas this version does it in 0.35 seconds, 8-10 times faster.

I've tried to comment it as best I could, without bloating the code too much.

--Mike Lorenz

<lang csharp>using System; using System.Linq; using System.Numerics;

namespace HammingFast {

   class MainClass {
       private static int[] _primes = { 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29 };
       public static BigInteger Big(int[] exponents) {
           BigInteger val = 1;
           for (int i = 0; i < exponents.Length; i++)
               for (int e = 0; e < exponents[i]; e++)
                   val = val * _primes[i];
           return val;
       }
       public static int[] Hamming(int n, int nprimes) {
           var hammings  = new int[n, nprimes];                    // array of hamming #s we generate
           var hammlogs  = new double[n];                          // log values for above
           var primelogs = new double[nprimes];                    // pre-calculated prime log values
           var indexes   = new int[nprimes];                       // intermediate hamming values as indexes into hammings
           var listheads = new int[nprimes, nprimes];              // intermediate hamming list heads
           var listlogs  = new double[nprimes];                    // log values of list heads
           for (int p = 0; p < nprimes; p++) {
               listheads[p, p] = 1;                                // init list heads to prime values
               primelogs[p]    = Math.Log(_primes[p]);             // pre-calc prime log values
               listlogs[p]     = Math.Log(_primes[p]);             // init list head log values
           }
           for (int iter = 1; iter < n; iter++) {
               int min = 0;                                        // find index of min item in list heads
               for (int p = 1; p < nprimes; p++)
                   if (listlogs[p] < listlogs[min])
                       min = p;
               hammlogs[iter] = listlogs[min];                     // that's the next hamming number
               for (int i = 0; i < nprimes; i++)
                   hammings[iter, i] = listheads[min, i];
               for (int p = 0; p < nprimes; p++) {                 // update each list head if it matches new value
                   bool equal = true;                              // test each exponent to see if number matches
                   for (int i = 0; i < nprimes; i++) {
                       if (hammings[iter, i] != listheads[p, i]) {
                           equal = false;
                           break;
                       }
                   }
                   if (equal) {                                    // if it matches...
                       int x = ++indexes[p];                       // set index to next hamming number
                       for (int i = 0; i < nprimes; i++)           // copy each hamming exponent
                           listheads[p, i] = hammings[x, i];
                       listheads[p, p] += 1;                       // increment exponent = mult by prime
                       listlogs[p] = hammlogs[x] + primelogs[p];   // add log(prime) to log(value) = mult by prime
                   }
               }
           }
           var result = new int[nprimes];
           for (int i = 0; i < nprimes; i++)
               result[i] = hammings[n - 1, i];
           return result;
       }
       public static void Main(string[] args) {
           foreach (int np in new int[] { 3, 4, 5 }) {
               Console.WriteLine("{0}-Smooth:", _primes[np - 1]);
               Console.WriteLine(string.Join(" ", Enumerable.Range(1, 20).Select(x => Big(Hamming(x, np)))));
               Console.WriteLine(Big(Hamming(1691, np)));
               Console.WriteLine(Big(Hamming(1000000, np)));
               Console.WriteLine();
           }
       }
   }

}</lang>

Output:
5-Smooth:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

7-Smooth:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 14 15 16 18 20 21 24 25 27
3317760
4157409948433216829957008507500000000

11-Smooth:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 18 20 21 22 24
296352
561912530929780078125000

C# Enumerator Version

I wanted to fix the enumerator (old) version, as it wasn't working. It became a bit of an obsession... after a few iterations I came up with the following, which is the fastest C# version on my computer - your mileage may vary. It combines the speed of the Log method; Log(2)+Log(3)=Log(2*3) to help determine which is the next one to use. Then I have added some logic (using the series property) to ensure that exponent sets are never duplicated - which speeds the calculations up a bit.... Adding this trick to the Fast Version will probably result in the fastest version, but I'll leave that to someone else to implement. Finally it's all enumerated through a crazy one-way-linked-list-type-structure that only exists as long as the enumerator and is left up to the garbage collector to remove the bits no longer needed... I hope it's commented enough... follow it if you dare!

<lang csharp>using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Numerics;

namespace HammingTest {

   class HammingNode
   {
       public double log;
       public int[] exponents;
       public HammingNode next;
       public int series;
   }
   
   class HammingListEnumerator : IEnumerable<BigInteger>
   {
       private int[] primes;
       private double[] primelogs;
       private HammingNode next;
       private HammingNode[] values;
       private HammingNode[] indexes;
       public HammingListEnumerator(IEnumerable<int> seeds)
       {
           // Ensure our seeds are properly ordered, and generate their log values
           primes = seeds.OrderBy(x => x).ToArray();
           primelogs = primes.Select(x => Math.Log10(x)).ToArray();
           // Start at 1 (log(1)=0, exponents are all 0, series = none)
           next = new HammingNode { log = 0, exponents = new int[primes.Length], series = primes.Length };
           // Set all exponent sequences to the start, and calculate the first value for each exponent
           indexes = new HammingNode[primes.Length];
           values = new HammingNode[primes.Length];
           for(int i = 0; i < primes.Length; ++i)
           {
               indexes[i] = next;
               values[i] = AddExponent(next, i);
           }
       }
       // Make a copy of a node, and increment the specified exponent value
       private HammingNode AddExponent(HammingNode node, int i)
       {
           HammingNode ret = new HammingNode { log = node.log + primelogs[i], exponents = (int[])node.exponents.Clone(), series = i };
           ++ret.exponents[i];
           return ret;
       }
       private void GetNext()
       {
           // Find which exponent value is the lowest
           int min = 0;
           for(int i = 1; i < values.Length; ++i)
               if(values[i].log < values[min].log)
                   min = i;
           
           // Add it to the end of the 'list', and move to it
           next.next = values[min];
           next = values[min];
           // Find the next node in an allowed sequence (skip those that would be duplicates) 
           HammingNode val = indexes[min].next;
           while(val.series < min)
               val = val.next;
           // Keep the current index, and calculate the next value in the series for that exponent
           indexes[min] = val;
           values[min] = AddExponent(val, min);
       }
       // Skip values without having to calculate the BigInteger value from the exponents
       public HammingListEnumerator Skip(int count)
       {
           for(int i = count; i > 0; --i)
               GetNext();
           return this;
       }
       // Calculate the BigInteger value from the exponents
       internal BigInteger ValueOf(HammingNode n)
       {
           BigInteger val = 1;
           for(int i = 0; i < n.exponents.Length; ++i)
               for(int e = 0; e < n.exponents[i]; e++)
                   val = val * primes[i];
           return val;
       }
       public IEnumerator<BigInteger> GetEnumerator()
       {
           while(true)
           {
               yield return ValueOf(next);
               GetNext();
           }
       }
       System.Collections.IEnumerator System.Collections.IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
       {
           return this.GetEnumerator();
       }
   }
   class Program
   {
       static void Main(string[] args)
       {
           foreach(int[] primes in new int[][] { 
               new int[] { 2, 3, 5 },
               new int[] { 2, 3, 5, 7 },
               new int[] { 2, 3, 5, 7, 9}})
           {
               HammingListEnumerator hammings = new HammingListEnumerator(primes);
               System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("{0}-Smooth:", primes.Last());
               System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(String.Join(" ", hammings.Take(20).ToArray()));
               System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(hammings.Skip(1691 - 20).First());
               System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(hammings.Skip(1000000 - 1691).First());
               System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("");
           }
       }
   }

} </lang>

Output:
5-Smooth:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

7-Smooth:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 14 15 16 18 20 21 24 25 27
3317760
4157409948433216829957008507500000000

11-Smooth:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 18 20 21 22 24
296352
561912530929780078125000

Alternate Generic Enumerating version

YMMV, but unlike the author of the above code, I found the above version to be much slower on my machine than the "Generic version". The following version is actually just a little slower than the Generic version but uses much less memory due to avoiding duplicates and only keeping in memory those "lazy list" streams necessary for calculation from 1/5 of the current range to 1/2 (for Smooth-5 numbers), and not successive values in those ranges but only the values the are the multiples of previous ranges. Like the Haskell code from which it is translated, the head of the streams is not retained so can be garbage collected when no longer necessary and it is recommended that the primes be processed in reverse order so that the least dense streams are processed first for slightly less memory use and operations.

It also shows that one can use somewhat functional programming techniques in C#.

The class implements its own partial version of a lazy list using the Lazy class and uses lambda closures for the recursive use of the successive streams to avoid stack use. It uses Aggregate to implement the Haskell "foldl" function.

It isn't nearly as fast as a Haskell, Scala or even Clojure versions due to their specialized implementations of lazy lists/streams, being about five times slower is primarily due to the inefficiency of DotNet's lambda closures necessary to implement the (although about twice as fast as F#'s) and to a minor extend due to less efficient BigInteger operations:

Translation of: Haskell

<lang csharp>using System; using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Numerics;

namespace Hamming {

 class Hammings : IEnumerable<BigInteger> {
   private class LazyList<T> {
     public T v; public Lazy<LazyList<T>> cont;
     public LazyList(T v, Lazy<LazyList<T>> cont) {
       this.v = v; this.cont = cont;
     }
   }
   private uint[] primes;
   private Hammings() { } // must have an argument!!!
   public Hammings(uint[] prms) { this.primes = prms; }
   private LazyList<BigInteger> merge(LazyList<BigInteger> xs,
                                      LazyList<BigInteger> ys) {
     if (xs == null) return ys; else {
       var x = xs.v; var y = ys.v;
       if (BigInteger.Compare(x, y) < 0) {
         var cont = new Lazy<LazyList<BigInteger>>(() =>
                      merge(xs.cont.Value, ys));
         return new LazyList<BigInteger>(x, cont);
       }
       else {
         var cont = new Lazy<LazyList<BigInteger>>(() =>
                      merge(xs, ys.cont.Value));
         return new LazyList<BigInteger>(y, cont);
       }
     }
   }
   private LazyList<BigInteger> llmult(uint mltplr,
                                       LazyList<BigInteger> ll) {      
     return new LazyList<BigInteger>(mltplr * ll.v,
                                     new Lazy<LazyList<BigInteger>>(() =>
                                       llmult(mltplr, ll.cont.Value)));
   }
   public IEnumerator<BigInteger> GetEnumerator() {
     Func<LazyList<BigInteger>,uint,LazyList<BigInteger>> u =
       (acc, p) => { LazyList<BigInteger> r = null;
                     var cont = new Lazy<LazyList<BigInteger>>(() => r);
                     r = new LazyList<BigInteger>(1, cont);
                     r = this.merge(acc, llmult(p, r));
                     return r; };
     yield return 1;
     for (var stt = primes.Aggregate(null, u); ; stt = stt.cont.Value)
       yield return stt.v;
   }
   IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator() {
     return this.GetEnumerator();
   }
 }
 class Program {
   static void Main(string[] args) {
     Console.WriteLine("Calculates the Hamming sequence of numbers.\r\n");
     var primes = new uint[] { 5, 3, 2 };
     Console.WriteLine(String.Join(" ", (new Hammings(primes)).Take(20).ToArray()));
     Console.WriteLine((new Hammings(primes)).ElementAt(1691 - 1));
     var n = 1000000;
     var elpsd = -DateTime.Now.Ticks;
     var num = (new Hammings(primes)).ElementAt(n - 1);
     elpsd += DateTime.Now.Ticks;
     Console.WriteLine(num);
     Console.WriteLine("The {0}th hamming number took {1} milliseconds", n, elpsd / 10000);
     Console.Write("\r\nPress any key to exit:");
     Console.ReadKey(true);
     Console.WriteLine();
   }
 }

}</lang>

Fast enumerating logarithmic version

The so-called "fast" generic version above isn't really all that fast due to all the extra array accesses required by the generic implementation and that it doesn't avoid duplicates as the above functional code does avoid. It also uses a lot of memory as it has arrays that are the size of the range for which the Hamming numbers are calculated.

The following code eliminates or reduces all of those problems by being non-generic, eliminating duplicate calculations, saving memory by "draining" the growable List's used in blocks as back pointer indexes are used (thus using memory at the same rate as the functional version), thus avoiding excessive allocations/garbage collections; it also is enumerates through the Hamming numbers although that comes at a slight cost in overhead function calls:

Translation of: Nim

<lang csharp>using System; using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Numerics;

class HammingsLogArr : IEnumerable<Tuple<uint, uint, uint>> {

 public static BigInteger trival(Tuple<uint, uint, uint> tpl) {
   BigInteger rslt = 1;
   for (var i = 0; i < tpl.Item1; ++i) rslt *= 2;
   for (var i = 0; i < tpl.Item2; ++i) rslt *= 3;
   for (var i = 0; i < tpl.Item3; ++i) rslt *= 5;
   return rslt;
 }
 private const double lb3 = 1.5849625007211561814537389439478; // Math.Log(3) / Math.Log(2);
 private const double lb5 = 2.3219280948873623478703194294894; // Math.Log(5) / Math.Log(2);
 private struct logrep {
   public uint x2, x3, x5;
   public double lg;
   public logrep(uint x, uint y, uint z, double lg) {
     this.x2 = x; this.x3 = y; this.x5 = z; this.lg = lg;
   }
   public static bool operator <(logrep x, logrep y) {
     return x.lg < y.lg;
   }
   public static bool operator >(logrep x, logrep y) {
     return x.lg > y.lg;
   }
   public logrep mul2() {
     return new logrep(this.x2 + 1, this.x3, this.x5, this.lg + 1.0);
   }
   public logrep mul3() {
     return new logrep(this.x2, this.x3 + 1, this.x5, this.lg + lb3);
   }
   public logrep mul5() {
     return new logrep(this.x2, this.x3, this.x5 + 1, this.lg + lb5);
   }
 }
 public IEnumerator<Tuple<uint, uint, uint>> GetEnumerator() {
   var one = new logrep();
   var m = new List<logrep>(); var h = new List<logrep>();
   var x5 = one.mul5();
   var mrg = one.mul3();
   var x53 = one.mul3().mul3(); // already advanced one step
   var x532 = one.mul2();
   var i = 0; var j = 0;
   yield return Tuple.Create(0u, 0u, 0u); // trivial case for one representation
   while (true) {
     if (i >= h.Capacity >> 1) { h.RemoveRange(0, i); i = 0; } // assume capacity stays the same...
     if (x532 < mrg) { h.Add(x532); x532 = h[i].mul2(); i++; }
     else {
       h.Add(mrg);
       if (j >= m.Capacity) { m.RemoveRange(0, j); j = 0; }
       if (x53 < x5) { mrg = x53; x53 = m[j].mul3(); j++; }
       else { mrg = x5; x5 = x5.mul5(); }
       m.Add(mrg);
     }
     var rslt = h[h.Count - 1];
     yield return Tuple.Create(rslt.x2, rslt.x3, rslt.x5);
   }
 }
 IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator() {
   return this.GetEnumerator();
 }

}

class Program {

 static void Main(string[] args) {
   Console.WriteLine(String.Join(" ", (new HammingsLogArr()).Take(20)
                                       .Select(t => HammingsLogArr.trival(t))
                                       .ToArray()));
   Console.WriteLine(HammingsLogArr.trival(NthHamming.findNth(1691)));
   var n = 1000000UL;
   var elpsd = -DateTime.Now.Ticks;
   var rslt = (new HammingsLogArr()).ElementAt((int)n - 1);
   elpsd += DateTime.Now.Ticks;
   Console.WriteLine("2^{0} times 3^{1} times 5^{2}", rslt.Item1, rslt.Item2, rslt.Item3);
   var lgrthm = Math.Log10(2.0) * ((double)rslt.Item1 +
                 ((double)rslt.Item2 * Math.Log(3.0) + (double)rslt.Item3 * Math.Log(5.0)) / Math.Log(2.0));
   var pwr = Math.Floor(lgrthm); var mntsa = Math.Pow(10.0, lgrthm - pwr);
   Console.WriteLine("Approximately:  {0}E+{1}", mntsa, pwr);
   var s = HammingsLogArr.trival(rslt).ToString();
   var lngth = s.Length;
   Console.WriteLine("Decimal digits:  {0}", lngth);
   if (lngth <= 10000) {
     var i = 0;
     for (; i < lngth - 100; i += 100) Console.WriteLine(s.Substring(i, 100));
     Console.WriteLine(s.Substring(i));
   }
   Console.WriteLine("The {0}th hamming number took {1} milliseconds", n, elpsd / 10000);
   Console.Write("\r\nPress any key to exit:");
   Console.ReadKey(true);
   Console.WriteLine();
 }

}</lang>

Output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
2125764000
2^55 times 3^47 times 5^64
Approximately:  5.19312780448414E+83
Decimal digits:  84
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
The 1000000th hamming number took 55 milliseconds

The above code is about 30 times faster than the functional code due to both eliminating the lambda closures that were the main problem with that code as well as eliminating the BigInteger operations. It has about O(n) empirical performance and can find the billionth Hamming number in about 60 seconds.

Extremely fast non-enumerating version calculating the error band

The above code is about as fast as one can go generating sequences; however, if one is willing to forego sequences and just calculate the nth Hamming number (again), then some reading on the relationship between the size of numbers to the sequence numbers is helpful (Wikipedia: regular number). One finds that there is a very distinct relationship and that it quite quickly reduces to quite a small error band proportional to the log of the output value for larger ranges. Thus, the following code just scans for logarithmic representations to insert into a sequence for this top error band and extracts the correct nth representation from that band. It reduces time complexity to O(n^(2/3)) from O(n) for the sequence versions, but even more amazingly, reduces memory requirements to O(n^(1/3)) from O(n^(2/3)) and thus makes it possible to calculate very large values in the sequence on common personal computers. The code is as follows:

Translation of: Nim

<lang csharp>using System; using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Numerics;

static class NthHamming {

 public static BigInteger trival(Tuple<uint, uint, uint> tpl) {
   BigInteger rslt = 1;
   for (var i = 0; i < tpl.Item1; ++i) rslt *= 2;
   for (var i = 0; i < tpl.Item2; ++i) rslt *= 3;
   for (var i = 0; i < tpl.Item3; ++i) rslt *= 5;
   return rslt;
 }
 private struct logrep {
   public uint x2, x3, x5;
   public double lg;
   public logrep(uint x, uint y, uint z, double lg) {
     this.x2 = x; this.x3 = y; this.x5 = z; this.lg = lg;
   }
 }
 private const double lb3 = 1.5849625007211561814537389439478; // Math.Log(3) / Math.Log(2);
 private const double lb5 = 2.3219280948873623478703194294894; // Math.Log(5) / Math.Log(2);
 private const double fctr = 6.0 * lb3 * lb5;
 private const double crctn = 2.4534452978042592646620291867186; // Math.Log(Math.sqrt(30.0)) / Math.Log(2.0)
 public static Tuple<uint, uint, uint> findNth(UInt64 n) {
   if (n < 1) throw new Exception("NthHamming.findNth:  argument must be > 0!");
   if (n < 2) return Tuple.Create(0u, 0u, 0u); // trivial case for argument of one
   var lgest = Math.Pow(fctr * (double)n, 1.0/3.0) - crctn; // from WP formula
   var frctn = (n < 1000000000) ? 0.509 : 0.105;
   var lghi = Math.Pow(fctr * ((double)n + frctn * lgest), 1.0/3.0) - crctn;
   var lglo = 2.0 * lgest - lghi; // upper and lower bound of upper "band"
   var count = 0UL; // need 64 bit precision in case...
   var bnd = new List<logrep>();
   for (uint k = 0, klmt = (uint)(lghi / lb5) + 1; k < klmt; ++k) {
     var p = (double)k * lb5;
     for (uint j = 0, jlmt = (uint)((lghi - p) / lb3) + 1; j < jlmt; ++j) {
       var q = p + (double)j * lb3;
       var ir = lghi - q;
       var lg = q + Math.Floor(ir); // current log2 value (estimated)
       count += (ulong)ir + 1;
       if (lg >= lglo) bnd.Add(new logrep((UInt32)ir, j, k, lg));
     }
   }
   if (n > count) throw new Exception("NthHamming.findNth:  band high estimate is too low!");
   var ndx = (int)(count - n);
   if (ndx >= bnd.Count) throw new Exception("NthHamming.findNth:  band low estimate is too high!");
   bnd.Sort((a, b) => (b.lg < a.lg) ? -1 : 1); // sort in decending order
   var rslt = bnd[ndx];
   return Tuple.Create(rslt.x2, rslt.x3, rslt.x5);
 }

}

class Program {

 static void Main(string[] args) {
   Console.WriteLine(String.Join(" ", Enumerable.Range(1,20).Select(i =>
                                         NthHamming.trival(NthHamming.findNth((ulong)i))).ToArray()));
   Console.WriteLine(NthHamming.trival((new HammingsLogArr()).ElementAt(1691 - 1)));
   var n = 1000000000000UL;
   var elpsd = -DateTime.Now.Ticks;
   var rslt = NthHamming.findNth(n);
   elpsd += DateTime.Now.Ticks;
   Console.WriteLine("2^{0} times 3^{1} times 5^{2}", rslt.Item1, rslt.Item2, rslt.Item3);
   var lgrthm = Math.Log10(2.0) * ((double)rslt.Item1 +
                 ((double)rslt.Item2 * Math.Log(3.0) + (double)rslt.Item3 * Math.Log(5.0)) / Math.Log(2.0));
   var pwr = Math.Floor(lgrthm); var mntsa = Math.Pow(10.0, lgrthm - pwr);
   Console.WriteLine("Approximately:  {0}E+{1}", mntsa, pwr);
   var s = HammingsLogArr.trival(rslt).ToString();
   var lngth = s.Length;
   Console.WriteLine("Decimal digits:  {0}", lngth);
   if (lngth <= 10000) {
     var i = 0;
     for (; i < lngth - 100; i += 100) Console.WriteLine(s.Substring(i, 100));
     Console.WriteLine(s.Substring(i));
   }
   Console.WriteLine("The {0}th hamming number took {1} milliseconds", n, elpsd / 10000);
   Console.Write("\r\nPress any key to exit:");
   Console.ReadKey(true);
   Console.WriteLine();
 }

}</lang>

The output is the same as above except that the time is too small to be measured. The billionth number in the sequence can be calculated in just about 10 milliseconds, the trillionth in about one second, the thousand trillionth in about a hundred seconds, and it should be possible to calculate the 10^19th value in less than a day (untested) on common personal computers. The (2^64 - 1)th value (18446744073709551615) cannot be calculated due to a slight overflow problem as it approaches that limit.

C++

C++11 For Each Generator

<lang cpp>

  1. include <iostream>
  2. include <vector>

// Hamming like sequences Generator // // Nigel Galloway. August 13th., 2012 // class Ham { private: std::vector<unsigned int> _H, _hp, _hv, _x; public: bool operator!=(const Ham& other) const {return true;} Ham begin() const {return *this;}

       Ham end() const {return *this;}

unsigned int operator*() const {return _x.back();} Ham(const std::vector<unsigned int> &pfs):_H(pfs),_hp(pfs.size(),0),_hv({pfs}),_x({1}){} const Ham& operator++() { for (int i=0; i<_H.size(); i++) for (;_hv[i]<=_x.back();_hv[i]=_x[++_hp[i]]*_H[i]); _x.push_back(_hv[0]); for (int i=1; i<_H.size(); i++) if (_hv[i]<_x.back()) _x.back()=_hv[i]; return *this; } }; </lang>

5-Smooth

<lang cpp> int main() {

 int count = 1;
 for (unsigned int i : Ham({2,3,5})) {
   if (count <= 62) std::cout << i << ' ';
   if (count++ == 1691) {
     std::cout << "\nThe one thousand six hundred and ninety first Hamming Number is " << i << std::endl;
     break;
   }
 }
 return 0;

} </lang> Produces:

1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36 40 45 48 50 54 60 64 72 75 80 81 90 96 100 108 120 125 128 135 144 150 160 162 180 192 200 216 225 240 243 250 256 270 288 300 320 324 360 375 384 400 405
The one thousand six hundred and ninety first Hamming Number is 2125764000

7-Smooth

<lang cpp> int main() {

 int count = 1;
 for (unsigned int i : Ham({2,3,5,7})) {
   std::cout << i << ' ';
   if (count++ == 64) break;
 }
 std::cout << std::endl;
 return 0;

} </lang> Produces:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 14 15 16 18 20 21 24 25 27 28 30 32 35 36 40 42 45 48 49 50 54 56 60 63 64 70 72 75 80 81 84 90 96 98 100 105 108 112 120 125 126 128 135 140 144 147 150 160 162 168 175 180 189

Clojure

This version implements Dijkstra's merge solution, so is closely related to the Haskell version. <lang clojure>(defn smerge [xs ys]

 (lazy-seq
   (let [x (first xs),
         y (first ys),
         [z xs* ys*]
         (cond
           (< x y) [x (rest xs) ys]
           (> x y) [y xs (rest ys)]
           :else   [x (rest xs) (rest ys)])]
     (cons z (smerge xs* ys*)))))

(def hamming

 (lazy-seq
   (->> (map #(*' 5 %) hamming)
        (smerge (map #(*' 3 %) hamming))
        (smerge (map #(*' 2 %) hamming))
        (cons 1))))</lang>

Note that the above version uses a lot of space and time after calculating a few hundred thousand elements of the sequence. This is no doubt due to not avoiding the generation of duplicates in the sequences as well as its "holding on to the head": it maintains the entire generated sequences in memory.

Avoiding duplicates and reducing memory use

In order to fix the problems with the above program as to memory use and extra time expended, the following code implements the Haskell idea as a function so that it does not retain the pointers to the streams used so that they can be garbage collected from the beginning as they are consumed. it avoids duplicate number generation by using intermediate streams for each of the multiples and building each on the results of the last; also, it orders the streams from least dense to most so that the intermediate streams retained are as short as possible, with the "s5" stream only from one fifth to a third of the current value, the "s35" stream only between a third and a half of the current output value, and the s235 stream only between a half and the current output - as the sequence is not very dense with increasing range, mot many values need be retained:

Translation of: Haskell

<lang clojure>(defn hamming

 "Computes the unbounded sequence of Hamming 235 numbers."
 []
 (letfn [(merge [xs ys]
           (if (nil? xs) ys
             (let [xv (first xs), yv (first ys)]
               (if (< xv yv) (cons xv (lazy-seq (merge (next xs) ys)))
                             (cons yv (lazy-seq (merge xs (next ys)))))))),
         (smult [m s] ;; equiv to map (* m) s -- faster
           (cons (*' m (first s)) (lazy-seq (smult m (next s))))),
         (u [s n] (let [r (atom nil)]
                     (reset! r (merge s (smult n (cons 1 (lazy-seq @r)))))))]
   (cons 1 (lazy-seq (reduce u nil (list 5 3 2))))))</lang>

Much of the time expended for larger ranges (say 10 million or more) is due to the time doing extended precision arithmetic, with also a significant percentage spent in garbage collection. For some reason, this code takes over three times as long when compiled to a class file and run from Java than as compiled in a REPL and run from a REPL command as follows (for this program the leiningen/clojure run time environment is faster than the java one?). Following is the output from the REPL:

After compiling code in REPL:

Output:
(take 20 (hamming))
(1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36)
(->> (hamming) (drop 1690) (first) (time))
"Elapsed time: 1.105582 msecs"
2125764000
(->> (hamming) (drop 999999) (first) (time))
"Elapsed time: 447.561128 msecs"
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000N

CoffeeScript

<lang coffeescript># Generate hamming numbers in order. Hamming numbers have the

  1. property that they don't evenly divide any prime numbers outside
  2. a given set, such as [2, 3, 5].

generate_hamming_sequence = (primes, max_n) ->

 # We use a lazy algorithm, only ever keeping N candidates
 # in play, one for each of our seed primes.  Let's say
 # primes is [2,3,5].  Our virtual streams are these:
 #
 # hammings:    1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,12,15,16,18,20,...
 # hammings*2:  2,4,6,9.10,12,16,20,24,30,32,36,40...
 # hammings*3:  3,6,9,12,15,18,24,30,36,45,...
 # hammings*5:  5,10,15,20,25,30,40,50,...
 #
 # After encountering 40 for the last time, our candidates 
 # will be
 #   50 = 2 * 25
 #   45 = 3 * 15
 #   50 = 5 * 10
 # Then, after 45
 #   50 = 2 * 25
 #   48 = 3 * 16 <= new
 #   50 = 5 * 10 
 hamming_numbers = [1]
 candidates = ([p, p, 1] for p in primes)
 last_number = 1
 while hamming_numbers.length < max_n
   # Get the next candidate Hamming Number tuple.
   i = min_idx(candidates)
   candidate = candidates[i]
   [n, p, seq_idx] = candidate
   
   # Add to sequence unless it's a duplicate.
   if n > last_number
     hamming_numbers.push n
     last_number = n
   # Replace the candidate with its successor (based on
   # p = 2, 3, or 5).
   #
   # This is the heart of the algorithm.  Let's say, over the 
   # primes [2,3,5], we encounter the hamming number 32 based on it being 
   # 2 * 16, where 16 is the 12th number in the sequence.
   # We'll be passed in [32, 2, 12] as candidate, and
   # hamming_numbers will be [1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,16,18,...]
   # by now.  The next candidate we need to enqueue is
   # [36, 2, 13], where the numbers mean this:
   #
   #    36 - next multiple of 2 of a Hamming number
   #     2 - prime number
   #    13 - 1-based index of 18 in the sequence
   # 
   # When we encounter [36, 2, 13], we will then enqueue
   # [40, 2, 14], based on 20 being the 14th hamming number.
   q = hamming_numbers[seq_idx]
   candidates[i] = [p*q, p, seq_idx+1]
   
 hamming_numbers

min_idx = (arr) ->

 # Don't waste your time reading this--it just returns
 # the index of the smallest tuple in an array, respecting that
 # the tuples may contain integers. (CS compiles to JS, which is
 # kind of stupid about sorting.  There are libraries to work around
 # the limitation, but I wanted this code to be standalone.)
 less_than = (tup1, tup2) ->
   i = 0
   while i < tup2.length
     return true if tup1[i] <= tup2[i]
     return false if tup1[i] > tup2[i]
     i += 1
 min_i = 0
 for i in [1...arr.length]
   if less_than arr[i], arr[min_i]
     min_i = i
 return min_i

primes = [2, 3, 5] numbers = generate_hamming_sequence(primes, 10000) console.log numbers[1690] console.log numbers[9999]</lang>

Common Lisp

Maintaining three queues, popping the smallest value every time. <lang lisp>(defun next-hamm (factors seqs)

 (let ((x (apply #'min (map 'list #'first seqs))))
   (loop for s in seqs

for f in factors for i from 0 with add = t do (if (= x (first s)) (pop s))  ;; prevent a value from being added to multiple lists (when add (setf (elt seqs i) (nconc s (list (* x f)))) (if (zerop (mod x f)) (setf add nil)))

   finally (return x))))

(loop with factors = '(2 3 5)

     with seqs    = (loop for i in factors collect '(1))
     for n from 1 to 1000001 do
     (let ((x (next-hamm factors seqs)))

(if (or (< n 21) (= n 1691) (= n 1000000)) (format t "~d: ~d~%" n x))))</lang> A much faster method: <lang lisp>(defun hamming (n)

 (let ((fac '(2 3 5))

(idx (make-array 3 :initial-element 0)) (h (make-array (1+ n) :initial-element 1 :element-type 'integer)))

   (loop for i from 1 to n

with e with x = '(1 1 1) do (setf e (setf (aref h i) (apply #'min x)) x (loop for y in x for f in fac for j from 0 collect (if (= e y) (* f (aref h (incf (aref idx j)))) y))))

   (aref h n)))

(loop for i from 1 to 20 do

     (format t "~2d: ~d~%" i (hamming i)))

(loop for i in '(1691 1000000) do

     (format t "~d: ~d~%" i (hamming i)))</lang>
Output:
 1: 1
 2: 2
 3: 3
 4: 4
 5: 5
 6: 6
 7: 8
 8: 9
 9: 10
10: 12
11: 15
12: 16
13: 18
14: 20
15: 24
16: 25
17: 27
18: 30
19: 32
20: 36
1691: 2125764000
1000000: 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

D

Basic Version

This version keeps all numbers in memory, computing all the Hamming numbers up to the needed one. Performs constant number of operations per Hamming number produced. <lang d>import std.stdio, std.bigint, std.algorithm, std.range, core.memory;

auto hamming(in uint n) pure nothrow /*@safe*/ {

   immutable BigInt two = 2, three = 3, five = 5;
   auto h = new BigInt[n];
   h[0] = 1;
   BigInt x2 = 2, x3 = 3, x5 = 5;
   size_t i, j, k;
   foreach (ref el; h.dropOne) {
       el = min(x2, x3, x5);
       if (el == x2) x2 = two   * h[++i];
       if (el == x3) x3 = three * h[++j];
       if (el == x5) x5 = five  * h[++k];
   }
   return h.back;

}

void main() {

   GC.disable;
   iota(1, 21).map!hamming.writeln;
   1_691.hamming.writeln;
   1_000_000.hamming.writeln;

}</lang>

Output:
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36]
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Runtime is about 1.6 seconds with LDC2.

Alternative Version 1

This keeps numbers in memory, but over-computes a sequence by a factor of about , calculating extra multiples past that as well. Incurs an extra factor of operations per each number produced (reinserting its multiples into a tree). Doesn't stop when the target number is reached, instead continuing until it is no longer needed:

Translation of: Java

<lang d>import std.stdio, std.bigint, std.container, std.algorithm, std.range,

      core.memory;

BigInt hamming(in int n) in {

  assert(n > 0);

} body {

   auto frontier = redBlackTree(2.BigInt, 3.BigInt, 5.BigInt);
   auto lowest = 1.BigInt;
   foreach (immutable _; 1 .. n) {
       lowest = frontier.front;
       frontier.removeFront;
       frontier.insert(lowest * 2);
       frontier.insert(lowest * 3);
       frontier.insert(lowest * 5);
   }
   return lowest;

}

void main() {

   GC.disable;
   writeln("First 20 Hamming numbers: ", iota(1, 21).map!hamming);
   writeln("hamming(1691) = ", 1691.hamming);
   writeln("hamming(1_000_000) = ", 1_000_000.hamming);

}</lang>

Output:
First 20 Hamming numbers: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36]
hamming(1691) = 2125764000
hamming(1_000_000) = 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

About 3.2 seconds run time with LDC2.

Alternative Version 2

Does exactly what the first version does, creating an array and filling it with Hamming numbers, keeping the three back pointers into the sequence for next multiples calculations, except that it represents the numbers as their coefficients triples and their logarithm values (for comparisons), thus saving on BigInt calculations.

Translation of: C

<lang d>import std.stdio: writefln; import std.bigint: BigInt; import std.conv: text; import std.numeric: gcd; import std.algorithm: copy, map; import std.array: array; import core.stdc.stdlib: calloc; import std.math: log; // ^^

// Number of factors. enum NK = 3;

enum MAX_HAM = 10_000_000; static assert(gcd(NK, MAX_HAM) == 1);

enum int[NK] factors = [2, 3, 5];


/// K-smooth numbers (stored as their exponents of each factor). struct Hamming {

   double v; // Log of the number, for convenience.
   ushort[NK] e; // Exponents of each factor.
   public static __gshared immutable double[factors.length] inc =
       factors[].map!log.array;
   bool opEquals(in ref Hamming y) const pure nothrow @nogc {
       //return this.e == y.e; // Too much slow.
       foreach (immutable i; 0 .. this.e.length)
           if (this.e[i] != y.e[i])
               return false;
       return true;
   }
   void update() pure nothrow @nogc {
       //this.v = dotProduct(inc, this.e); // Too much slow.
       this.v = 0.0;
       foreach (immutable i; 0 .. this.e.length)
           this.v += inc[i] * this.e[i];
   }
   string toString() const {
       BigInt result = 1;
       foreach (immutable i, immutable f; factors)
           result *= f.BigInt ^^ this.e[i];
       return result.text;
   }

}

// Global variables. __gshared Hamming[] hams; __gshared Hamming[NK] values;

nothrow @nogc static this() {

   // Slower than calloc if you don't use all the MAX_HAM items.
   //hams = new Hamming[MAX_HAM];
   auto ptr = cast(Hamming*)calloc(MAX_HAM, Hamming.sizeof);
   static const err = new Error("Not enough memory.");
   if (!ptr)
       throw err;
   hams = ptr[0 .. MAX_HAM];
   foreach (immutable i, ref v; values) {
       v.e[i] = 1;
       v.v = Hamming.inc[i];
   }

}


ref Hamming getHam(in size_t n) nothrow @nogc in {

   assert(n <= MAX_HAM);

} body {

   // Most of the time v can be just incremented, but eventually
   // floating point precision will bite us, so better recalculate.
   __gshared static size_t[NK] idx;
   __gshared static int n_hams;
   for (; n_hams < n; n_hams++) {
       {
           // Find the index of the minimum v.
           size_t ni = 0;
           foreach (immutable i; 1 .. NK)
               if (values[i].v < values[ni].v)
                   ni = i;
           hams[n_hams] = values[ni];
           hams[n_hams].update;
       }
       foreach (immutable i; 0 .. NK)
           if (values[i] == hams[n_hams]) {
               values[i] = hams[idx[i]];
               idx[i]++;
               values[i].e[i]++;
               values[i].update;
           }
   }
   return hams[n - 2];

}


void main() {

   foreach (immutable n; [1691, 10 ^^ 6, MAX_HAM])
       writefln("%8d: %s", n, n.getHam);

}</lang> The output is similar to the second C version. Runtime is about 0.11 seconds if MAX_HAM = 1_000_000 (as the task requires), and 0.90 seconds if MAX_HAM = 10_000_000.

Alternative Version 3

This version is similar to the precedent, but frees unused values. It's a little slower than the precedent version, but it uses much less RAM, so it allows to compute the result for larger n. <lang d>import std.stdio: writefln; import std.bigint: BigInt; import std.conv: text; import std.algorithm: map; import std.array: array; import core.stdc.stdlib: malloc, calloc, free; import std.math: log; // ^^

// Number of factors. enum NK = 3;

__gshared immutable int[NK] primes = [2, 3, 5]; __gshared immutable double[NK] lnPrimes = primes[].map!log.array;

/// K-smooth numbers (stored as their exponents of each factor).

struct Hamming {

   double ln; // Log of the number.
   ushort[NK] e; // Exponents of each factor.
   Hamming* next;
   size_t n;
   // Recompute the logarithm from the exponents.
   void recalculate() pure nothrow @safe @nogc {
       this.ln = 0.0;
       foreach (immutable i, immutable ei; this.e)
           this.ln += lnPrimes[i] * ei;
   }
   string toString() const {
       BigInt result = 1;
       foreach (immutable i, immutable f; primes)
           result *= f.BigInt ^^ this.e[i];
       return result.text;
   }

}

Hamming getHam(in size_t n) nothrow @nogc in {

   assert(n && n != size_t.max);

} body {

   static struct Candidate {
       typeof(Hamming.ln) ln;
       typeof(Hamming.e) e;
       void increment(in size_t n) pure nothrow @safe @nogc {
           e[n] += 1;
           ln += lnPrimes[n];
       }
       bool opEquals(T)(in ref T y) const pure nothrow @safe @nogc {
           // return this.e == y.e; // Slow.
           return !((this.e[0] ^ y.e[0]) |
                    (this.e[1] ^ y.e[1]) |
                    (this.e[2] ^ y.e[2]));
       }
       int opCmp(T)(in ref T y) const pure nothrow @safe @nogc {
           return (ln > y.ln) ? 1 : (ln < y.ln ? -1 : 0);
       }
   }
   static struct HammingIterator { // Not a Range.
       Candidate cand;
       Hamming* base;
       size_t primeIdx;
       this(in size_t i, Hamming* b) pure nothrow @safe @nogc {
           primeIdx = i;
           base = b;
           cand.e = base.e;
           cand.ln = base.ln;
           cand.increment(primeIdx);
       }
       void next() pure nothrow @safe @nogc {
           base = base.next;
           cand.e = base.e;
           cand.ln = base.ln;
           cand.increment(primeIdx);
       }
   }
   HammingIterator[NK] its;
   Hamming* head = cast(Hamming*)calloc(Hamming.sizeof, 1);
   Hamming* freeList, cur = head;
   Candidate next;
   foreach (immutable i, ref it; its)
       it = HammingIterator(i, cur);
   for (size_t i = cur.n = 1; i < n; ) {
       auto leastReferenced = size_t.max;
       next.ln = double.max;
       foreach (ref it; its) {
           if (it.cand == *cur)
               it.next;
           if (it.base.n < leastReferenced)
               leastReferenced = it.base.n;
           if (it.cand < next)
               next = it.cand;
       }
       // Collect unferenced numbers.
       while (head.n < leastReferenced) {
           auto tmp = head;
           head = head.next;
           tmp.next = freeList;
           freeList = tmp;
       }
       if (!freeList) {
           cur.next = cast(Hamming*)malloc(Hamming.sizeof);
       } else {
           cur.next = freeList;
           freeList = freeList.next;
       }
       cur = cur.next;
       version (fastmath) {
           cur.ln = next.ln;
           cur.e = next.e;
       } else {
           cur.e = next.e;
           cur.recalculate; // Prevent FP error accumulation.
       }
       cur.n = i++;
       cur.next = null;
   }
   auto result = *cur;
   version (leak) {}
   else {
       while (head) {
           auto tmp = head;
           head = head.next;
           tmp.free;
       }
       while (freeList) {
           auto tmp = freeList;
           freeList = freeList.next;
           tmp.free;
       }
   }
   return result;

}

void main() {

   foreach (immutable n; [1691, 10 ^^ 6, 10_000_000])
       writefln("%8d: %s", n, n.getHam);

}</lang> The output is the same as the second alternative version.

DCL

<lang DCL>$ limit = p1 $ $ n = 0 $ h_'n = 1 $ x2 = 2 $ x3 = 3 $ x5 = 5 $ i = 0 $ j = 0 $ k = 0 $ $ n = 1 $ loop: $ x = x2 $ if x3 .lt. x then $ x = x3 $ if x5 .lt. x then $ x = x5 $ h_'n = x $ if x2 .eq. h_'n $ then $ i = i + 1 $ x2 = 2 * h_'i $ endif $ if x3 .eq. h_'n $ then $ j = j + 1 $ x3 = 3 * h_'j $ endif $ if x5 .eq. h_'n $ then $ k = k + 1 $ x5 = 5 * h_'k $ endif $ n = n + 1 $ if n .le. limit then $ goto loop $ $ i = 0 $ loop2: $ write sys$output h_'i $ i = i + 1 $ if i .lt. 20 then $ goto loop2 $ $ n = limit - 1 $ write sys$output h_'n</lang>

Output:
Here's the output;

$ @hamming 1691
1
2
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
12
15
16
18
20
24
25
27
30
32
36
2125764000

Eiffel

<lang Eiffel> note description  : "Initial part, in order, of the sequence of Hamming numbers" math  : "[ Hamming numbers, also known as regular numbers and 5-smooth numbers, are natural integers that have 2, 3 and 5 as their only prime factors. ]" computer_arithmetic : "[ This version avoids integer overflow and stops at the last representable number in the sequence. ]" output  : "[

   			   Per requirements of the RosettaCode example, execution will produce items of indexes 1 to 20 and 1691.
   			   The algorithm (procedure `hamming') is more general and will produce the first `n' Hamming numbers
   			   for any `n'.
   			  ]"

source  : "This problem was posed in Edsger W. Dijkstra, A Discipline of Programming, Prentice Hall, 1978" date  : "8 August 2012" authors  : "Bertrand Meyer", "Emmanuel Stapf" revision  : "1.0" libraries  : "Relies on SORTED_TWO_WAY_LIST from EiffelBase" implementation : "[ Using SORTED_TWO_WAY_LIST provides an elegant illustration of how to implement a lazy scheme in Eiffel through the use of object-oriented data structures. ]" warning  : "[ The formatting (<lang>) specifications for Eiffel in RosettaCode are slightly obsolete: `note' and other newer keywords not supported, red color for manifest strings. This should be fixed soon. ]"

class APPLICATION

create make

feature {NONE} -- Initialization

make -- Print first 20 Hamming numbers, in order, and the 1691-st one. local Hammings: like hamming -- List of Hamming numbers, up to 1691-st one. do Hammings := hamming (1691) across 1 |..| 20 as i loop io.put_natural (Hammings.i_th (i.item)); io.put_string (" ") end io.put_new_line; io.put_natural (Hammings.i_th (1691)); io.put_new_line end

feature -- Basic operations

hamming (n: INTEGER): ARRAYED_LIST [NATURAL] -- First `n' elements (in order) of the Hamming sequence, -- or as many of them as will not produce overflow. local sl: SORTED_TWO_WAY_LIST [NATURAL] overflow: BOOLEAN first, next: NATURAL do create Result.make (n); create sl.make sl.extend (1); sl.start across 1 |..| n as i invariant -- "The numbers output so far are the first `i' - 1 Hamming numbers, in order". -- "Result.first is the `i'-th Hamming number." until sl.is_empty loop first := sl.first; sl.start Result.extend (first); sl.remove across << 2, 3, 5 >> as multiplier loop next := multiplier.item * first overflow := overflow or next <= first if not overflow and then not sl.has (next) then sl.extend (next) end end end end end </lang>

Output:
1
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
2125764000

Elixir

<lang elixir>defmodule Hamming do

 def generater do
   queues = [{2, queue}, {3, queue}, {5, queue}]
   Stream.unfold({1, queues}, fn {n, q} -> next(n, q) end)
 end
 
 defp next(n, queues) do
   queues = Enum.map(queues, fn {m, queue} -> {m, push(queue, m*n)} end)
   min    = Enum.map(queues, fn {_, queue} -> top(queue) end) |> Enum.min
   queues = Enum.map(queues, fn {m, queue} ->
              {m, (if min==top(queue), do: erase_top(queue), else: queue)}
            end)
   {n, {min, queues}}
 end
 
 defp queue, do: {[], []}
 
 defp push({input, output}, term), do: {[term | input], output}
 
 defp top({input, []}), do: List.last(input)
 defp top({_, [h|_]}), do: h
 
 defp erase_top({input, []}), do: erase_top({[], Enum.reverse(input)})
 defp erase_top({input, [_|t]}), do: {input, t}

end

IO.puts "first twenty Hamming numbers:" IO.inspect Hamming.generater |> Enum.take(20) IO.puts "1691st Hamming number:" IO.puts Hamming.generater |> Enum.take(1691) |> List.last IO.puts "one millionth Hamming number:" IO.puts Hamming.generater |> Enum.take(1_000_000) |> List.last</lang>

Output:
first twenty Hamming numbers:
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36]
1691st Hamming number:
2125764000
one millionth Hamming number:
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

ERRE

For bigger numbers, you have to use an external program, like MULPREC.R <lang ERRE>PROGRAM HAMMING

!$DOUBLE

DIM H[2000]

PROCEDURE HAMMING(L%->RES)

     LOCAL I%,J%,K%,N%,M,X2,X3,X5
     H[0]=1
     X2=2  X3=3  X5=5
     FOR N%=1 TO L%-1 DO
       M=X2
       IF M>X3 THEN M=X3 END IF
       IF M>X5 THEN M=X5 END IF
       H[N%]=M
       IF M=X2 THEN I%+=1  X2=2*H[I%]  END IF
       IF M=X3 THEN J%+=1  X3=3*H[J%]  END IF
       IF M=X5 THEN K%+=1  X5=5*H[K%]  END IF
     END FOR
     RES=H[L%-1]

END PROCEDURE

BEGIN

     FOR H%=1 TO 20 DO
       HAMMING(H%->RES)
       PRINT("H(";H%;")=";RES)
     END FOR
     HAMMING(1691->RES)
     PRINT("H(1691)=";RES)

END PROGRAM</lang>

Output:
H( 1 )= 1

H( 2 )= 2 H( 3 )= 3 H( 4 )= 4 H( 5 )= 5 H( 6 )= 6 H( 7 )= 8 H( 8 )= 9 H( 9 )= 10 H( 10 )= 12 H( 11 )= 15 H( 12 )= 16 H( 13 )= 18 H( 14 )= 20 H( 15 )= 24 H( 16 )= 25 H( 17 )= 27 H( 18 )= 30 H( 19 )= 32 H( 20 )= 36 H(1691)= 2125764000

F#

This version implements Dijkstra's merge solution, so is closely related to the Haskell classic version. <lang fsharp>type LazyList<'a> = Cons of 'a * Lazy<LazyList<'a>> // ': fix colouring

let rec hamming =

 let rec (-|-) (Cons(x, nxf) as xs) (Cons(y, nyf) as ys) =
   if x < y then Cons(x, lazy(nxf.Force() -|- ys))
   elif x > y then Cons(y, lazy(xs -|- nyf.Force()))
   else Cons(x, lazy(nxf.Force() -|- nyf.Force()))
 let rec inf_map f (Cons(x, nxf)) =
   Cons(f x, lazy(inf_map f (nxf.Force())))
 Cons(1I, lazy(let x = inf_map ((*) 2I) hamming
               let y = inf_map ((*) 3I) hamming
               let z = inf_map ((*) 5I) hamming
               x -|- y -|- z))

// testing... [<EntryPoint>] let main args =

 let rec iterLazyListFor f n (Cons(v, rf)) = 
   if n > 0 then f v; iterLazyListFor f (n - 1) (rf.Force())
 let rec nthLazyList n ((Cons(v, rf)) as ll) =
   if n <= 1 then v else nthLazyList (n - 1) (rf.Force())
 printf "( "; iterLazyListFor (printf "%A ") 20 (hamming); printfn ")"
 printfn "%A" (hamming |> nthLazyList 1691)
 printfn "%A" (hamming |> nthLazyList 1000000)
 0</lang>

The above code memory residency is quite high as it holds the entire lazy sequence in memory due to the reference preventing garbage collection as the sequence is consumed,

The following code reduces that high memory residency by making the routine a function and using internal local stream references for the intermediate streams so that they can be collected as the stream is consumed as long as no reference is held to the main results stream (which is not in the sample test functions); it also avoids duplication of factors by successively building up streams and further reduces memory use by ordering of the streams so that the least dense are determined first:

Translation of: Haskell

<lang fsharp>type LazyList<'a> = Cons of 'a * Lazy<LazyList<'a>> // ': fix colouring

let hamming() =

 let rec merge (Cons(x, f) as xs) (Cons(y, g) as ys) =
   if x < y then Cons(x, lazy(merge (f.Force()) ys))
   else Cons(y, lazy(merge xs (g.Force())))
 let rec smult m (Cons(x, rxs)) =
   Cons(m * x, lazy(smult m (rxs.Force())))
 let u s n = 
   match s with
     | Empty -> let rec r = smult n (Cons(1I, lazy r)) in r
     | _ -> let rec r = merge s (smult n (Cons(1I, lazy r))) in r
 (Cons(1I, lazy(Seq.fold u Empty [| 5I; 3I; 2I |])))</lang>

The above code can by used just by substituting it for the "hamming" binding and substituting "hamming()" for "hamming" in the main testing function calls (three places).

Both codes output the same results as follows but the second is over three times faster:

Output:
( 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36 )
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Both codes are over 10 times slower as compared to Haskell (or Scala or Clojure) when all are written in exactly the same style, perhaps due in some small degree to the BigInteger implementation being much slower for these operations than GMP and the JVM's implementation of BigInteger, but is also about twice as slow as the same algorithm written in C#. This seems to show up one of F#'s "warts" in that the implementation of closure functions enclosing free variables necessary to implement lazy as in the LazyList seem to be particularly inefficient even as compared to C#'s lambda functions (which are also less efficient than the others mentioned).

Fast somewhat imperative sequence version using logarithms

Since the above pure functional approach isn't very efficient, a more imperative approach using "growable" arrays which are "drained" of unnecessary older values in blocks once the back pointer indices are advanced is used in the following code. The code also implements an algorithm to avoid duplicate calculations and thus does the same number of operations as the above code but faster due to using integer and floating point operations rather an BigInteger ones. Due to the "draining" the memory use is the same as the above by a constant factor. However, note that other than the contents of these arrays, pure functional code using immutable values is used. Note that the implementation of IEnumerable using sequences in F# is also not very efficient and a "roll-your-own" IEnumerable implementation would likely be two or three times faster:

<lang fsharp>open System.Numerics

let hammingsLog() = // imperative arrays, eliminates the BigInteger operations...

 let lb3 = 1.5849625007211561814537389439478 // Math.Log(3) / Math.Log(2);
 let lb5 = 2.3219280948873623478703194294894 // Math.Log(5) / Math.Log(2);
 let inline mul2 (lg, x2, x3, x5) = (lg + 1.0, x2 + 1u, x3, x5)
 let inline mul3 (lg, x2, x3, x5) = (lg + lb3, x2, x3 + 1u, x5)
 let inline mul5 (lg, x2, x3, x5) = (lg + lb5, x2, x3, x5 + 1u)
 let one = (0.0, 0u, 0u, 0u)
 let s532, mrg = one |> mul2, one |> mul3
 let s53 = one |> mul3 |> mul3 // equivalent to 9 for advance step
 let s5 = one |> mul5
 let h = ResizeArray<_>()
 let m = ResizeArray<_>()
 let inline drplg (_, x2, x3, x5) = (x2, x3, x5)
 let inline nontriv() = Seq.unfold (fun (i, j, s532, mrg, s53, s5) -> // THIS STILL IS PATTERN MATCHING!!!!!
   let inline (<) (lga, _, _, _) (lgb, _, _, _) = lga < lgb
   let nv, ni, nj, ns532, nmrg, ns53, ns5 =
     if s532 < mrg then h.Add(s532)
                        s532, i + 1, j, h.[i] |> mul2, mrg, s53, s5
     else if s53 < s5 then h.Add(mrg); m.Add(s53)
                           mrg, i, j + 1, s532, s53, m.[j] |> mul3, s5
          else h.Add(mrg); m.Add(s5)
               mrg, i, j, s532, s5, s53, s5 |> mul5
   let nj = if nj >= m.Capacity / 2 then m.RemoveRange(0, nj); 0 else nj
   let ni = if ni >= h.Capacity / 2 then h.RemoveRange(0, ni); 0 else ni
   Some (drplg nv, (ni, nj, ns532, nmrg, ns53, ns5))) (0,0,s532,mrg,s53,s5)
 seq { yield drplg one; yield! nontriv() } // this is very slow

let trival (x2, x3, x5) = // convert trival to BigInteger

 let rec loop n mlt rslt =
   if n <= 0u then rslt
   else loop (n - 1u) mlt (mlt * rslt)
 loop x2 2I 1I |> loop x3 3I |> loop x5 5I

[<EntryPoint>] let main argv =

 printf "( "; hammingsLog() |> Seq take 20 |> Seq.iter (printf "%A " << trival); printfn ")"
 printfn "%A" (hammingsLog() |> Seq.nth (1691 - 1))
 let strt = System.DateTime.Now.Ticks
 let rslt = (hammingsLog()) |> Seq.nth (1000000 - 1)
 let stop = System.DateTime.Now.Ticks
 printfn "%A" (rslt |> trival)  
 printfn "\r\nFound this last up to %A in %A milliseconds." topNum ((stop - strt) / 10000L)
 
 printf "\r\nPress any key to exit:"
 System.Console.ReadKey(true) |> ignore
 printfn ""
 0 // return an integer exit code</lang>

The above code produces the same outputs as above, but takes only about 300 milliseconds rather than over three seconds.

Extremely fast non-enumerating version sorting values in error band

If one is willing to forego sequences and just calculate the nth Hamming number, then some reading on the relationship between the size of numbers to the sequence numbers is helpful (Wikipedia: regular number). One finds that there is a very distinct relationship and that it quite quickly reduces to quite a small error band proportional to the log of the output value for larger ranges. Thus, the following code just scans for logarithmic representations to insert into a sequence for this top error band and extracts the correct nth representation from that band. It reduces time complexity to O(n^(2/3)) from O(n) for the sequence versions, but even more amazingly, reduces memory requirements to O(n^(1/3)) from O(n^(2/3)) and thus makes it possible to calculate very large values in the sequence on common personal computers. The code is as follows:

Translation of: Haskell

<lang fsharp>let nthHamming n =

 if n < 1UL then failwith "nthHamming; argument must be > 0!"
 if n < 2UL then 0u, 0u, 0u else // trivial case for first value of one
 let lb3 = 1.5849625007211561814537389439478 // Math.Log(3) / Math.Log(2);
 let lb5 = 2.3219280948873623478703194294894 // Math.Log(5) / Math.Log(2);
 let fctr = 6.0 * lb3 * lb5
 let crctn = 2.4534452978042592646620291867186 // Math.Log(Math.sqrt(30.0)) / Math.Log(2.0)
 let lgest = (fctr * double n) ** (1.0/3.0) - crctn // from WP formula
 let frctn = if n < 1000000000UL then 0.509 else 0.105
 let lghi = (fctr * (double n + frctn * lgest)) ** (1.0/3.0) - crctn
 let lglo = 2.0 * lgest - lghi // upper and lower bound of upper "band"
 let klmt = uint32 (lghi / lb5) + 1u
 let rec loopk k kcnt kbnd =
   if k >= klmt then kcnt, kbnd else
     let p = double k * lb5
     let jlmt = uint32 ((lghi - p) / lb3) + 1u
     let rec loopj j jcnt jbnd =
       if j >= jlmt then loopk (k + 1u) jcnt jbnd else
         let q = p + double j * lb3
         let ir = lghi - q
         let lg = q + floor ir // current log 2 value (estimated)
         let nbnd = if lg >= lglo then (lg, (uint32 ir, j, k)) :: jbnd else jbnd
         loopj (j + 1u) (jcnt + uint64 ir + 1UL) nbnd in loopj 0u kcnt kbnd
 let count, bnd = loopk 0u 0UL [] // 64-bit value so doesn't overflow
 if n > count then failwith "nthHamming:  band high estimate is too low!"
 let ndx = int (count - n)
 if ndx >= bnd.Length then failwith "NthHamming.findNth:  band low estimate is too high!"
 let sbnd = bnd |> List.sortBy (fun (lg, _) -> -lg) // sort in decending order
 let _, rslt = sbnd.[ndx]
 rslt

[<EntryPoint>] let main argv =

 let topNum = 1000000UL
 printf "( "; {1..20} |> Seq.iter (printf "%A " << trival << nthHamming << uint64); printfn ")"
 printfn "%A" (nthHamming 1691UL |> trival)
 let rslt = nthHammingx topNum
 let strt = System.DateTime.Now.Ticks
 let rslt = nthHamming topNum
 let stop = System.DateTime.Now.Ticks
 let x2, x3, x5 = rslt
 printfn "2**%A times 3**%A times 5**%A" x2 x3 x5
 let lgrthm = log10 2.0 * (double x2 + (double x3 * log 3.0 + double x5 * log 5.0) / log 2.0)
 let exp = floor lgrthm |> int
 let mntsa = 10.0 ** (lgrthm - double exp)
 printfn "Approximately %AE+%A" mntsa exp
 let s = trival rslt |> string
 let lngth = s.Length
 printfn "Digits:  %A" lngth
 if lngth <= 10000 then
   {0..100..lngth-1}
     |> Seq.iter (fun i ->
       printfn "%s" (s.Substring(i, if i + 100 < lngth then 100 else lngth - i)))
 
 printfn "\r\nFound this last up to %A in %A milliseconds." topNum ((stop - strt) / 10000L)
 
 printf "\r\nPress any key to exit:"
 System.Console.ReadKey(true) |> ignore
 printfn ""
 0 // return an integer exit code</lang>
Output:
( 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36 )
2125764000
2**55u times 3**47u times 5**64u
Approximately 5.193127804E+83
Digits:  84
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Found this last up to 1000000UL in 0L milliseconds.

Even though the above code is implemented in a completely functional style using immutable bindings and (non-lazy) lists (without closures), it is about as fast as implementations in the fastest of languages. It is faster than the Haskell version due to that version using lazy lists with the overhead of creating the requisite "thunks".

It takes too short a time to be measured to calculate the millionth Hamming number, the billionth number in the sequence can be calculated in just about 15 milliseconds, the trillionth in about one second, the thousand trillionth in about a hundred seconds, and it should be possible to calculate the 10^19th value in less than a day (untested) on common personal computers. The (2^64 - 1)th value (18446744073709551615) cannot be calculated due to a slight overflow problem as it approaches that limit.

Factor

Translation of: Scala

<lang factor>USING: accessors deques dlists fry kernel make math math.order

IN: rosetta.hamming

TUPLE: hamming-iterator 2s 3s 5s ;

<hamming-iterator> ( -- hamming-iterator )
   hamming-iterator new
       1 1dlist >>2s
       1 1dlist >>3s
       1 1dlist >>5s ;
enqueue ( n hamming-iterator -- )
   [ [ 2 * ] [ 2s>> ] bi* push-back ]
   [ [ 3 * ] [ 3s>> ] bi* push-back ]
   [ [ 5 * ] [ 5s>> ] bi* push-back ] 2tri ;
next ( hamming-iterator -- n )
   dup [ 2s>> ] [ 3s>> ] [ 5s>> ] tri
   3dup [ peek-front ] tri@ min min
   [
       '[
           dup peek-front _ =
           [ pop-front* ] [ drop ] if
       ] tri@
   ] [ swap enqueue ] [ ] tri ;
next-n ( hamming-iterator n -- seq )
   swap '[ _ [ _ next , ] times ] { } make ;
nth-from-now ( hamming-iterator n -- m )
   1 - over '[ _ next drop ] times next ;</lang>
 <hamming-iterator> 20 next-n .
 <hamming-iterator> 1691 nth-from-now .
 <hamming-iterator> 1000000 nth-from-now .
Translation of: Haskell

Lazy lists aren quite slow in Factor, but still. <lang factor>USING: combinators fry kernel lists lists.lazy locals math ; IN: rosetta.hamming-lazy

sort-merge ( xs ys -- result )
   xs car :> x
   ys car :> y
   {
       { [ x y < ] [ [ x ] [ xs cdr ys sort-merge ] lazy-cons ] }
       { [ x y > ] [ [ y ] [ ys cdr xs sort-merge ] lazy-cons ] }
       [ [ x ] [ xs cdr ys cdr sort-merge ] lazy-cons ]
   } cond ;
hamming ( -- hamming )
   f :> h!
   [ 1 ] [
       h 2 3 5 [ '[ _ * ] lazy-map ] tri-curry@ tri
       sort-merge sort-merge
   ] lazy-cons h! h ;</lang>
 20 hamming ltake list>array .
 1690 hamming lnth .
 999999 hamming lnth .

Forth

Works with: Gforth version 0.7.0

This version uses a compact representation of Hamming numbers: each 64-bit cell represents a number 2^l*3^m*5^n, where l, n, and m are bitfields in the cell (20 bits for now). It also uses a fixed-point logarithm to compare the Hamming numbers and prints them in factored form. This code has been tested up to the 10^9th Hamming number. <lang Forth>\ manipulating and computing with Hamming numbers:

extract2 ( h -- l )
   40 rshift ;
extract3 ( h -- m )
   20 rshift $fffff and ;
extract5 ( h -- n )
   $fffff and ;

' + alias h* ( h1 h2 -- h )

h. { h -- }
   ." 2^"  h extract2 0 .r
   ." *3^" h extract3 0 .r
   ." *5^" h extract5 . ;

\ the following numbers have been produced with bc -l as follows 1 62 lshift constant ldscale2

7309349404307464679 constant ldscale3 \ 2^62*l(3)/l(2) (rounded up)

10708003330985790206 constant ldscale5 \ 2^62*l(5)/l(2) (rounded down)

hld { h -- ud }
   \ ud is a scaled fixed-point representation of the logarithm dualis of h
   h extract2 ldscale2 um*
   h extract3 ldscale3 um* d+
   h extract5 ldscale5 um* d+ ;
h<= ( h1 h2 -- f )
   2dup = if
       2drop true exit
   then
   hld rot hld assert( 2over 2over d<> )
   du>= ;
hmin ( h1 h2 -- h )
   2dup h<= if
       drop
   else
       nip
   then ;

\ actual algorithm

0 value seq variable seqlast 0 seqlast !

lastseq ( -- u )
   \ last stored number in the sequence 
   seq seqlast @ th @ ;
genseq ( h1 "name" -- )
   \ h1 is the factor for the sequence
   create , 0 , \ factor and index of element used for last return
 does> ( -- u2 )
   \ u2 is the next number resulting from multiplying h1 with numbers
   \ in the sequence that is larger than the last number in the
   \ sequence
   dup @ lastseq { h1 l } cell+ dup @ begin ( index-addr index )
       seq over th @ h1 h* dup l h<= while
           drop 1+ repeat
   >r swap ! r> ;

$10000000000 genseq s2 $00000100000 genseq s3 $00000000001 genseq s5

nextseq ( -- )
   s2 s3 hmin s5 hmin , 1 seqlast +! ;
nthseq ( u1 -- h )
   \ the u1 th element in the sequence
   dup seqlast @ u+do
       nextseq
   loop
   1- 0 max cells seq + @ ;
.nseq ( u1 -- )
   dup seqlast @ u+do
       nextseq
   loop
   0 u+do
       seq i th @ h.
   loop ;

here to seq 0 , \ that's 1

20 .nseq cr 1691 nthseq h. cr 1000000 nthseq h.</lang>

Output:
2^0*3^0*5^0 2^1*3^0*5^0 2^0*3^1*5^0 2^2*3^0*5^0 2^0*3^0*5^1 2^1*3^1*5^0 2^3*3^0*5^0 2^0*3^2*5^0 2^1*3^0*5^1 2^2*3^1*5^0 2^0*3^1*5^1 2^4*3^0*5^0 2^1*3^2*5^0 2^2*3^0*5^1 2^3*3^1*5^0 2^0*3^0*5^2 2^0*3^3*5^0 2^1*3^1*5^1 2^5*3^0*5^0 2^2*3^2*5^0 
2^5*3^12*5^3 
2^55*3^47*5^64

A smaller, less capable solution is presented here. It solves two out of three requirements and is ANS-Forth compliant. <lang Forth>2000 cells constant /hamming create hamming /hamming allot

                  ( n1 n2 n3 n4 n5 n6 n7 -- n3 n4 n5 n6 n1 n2 n8)
min? >r dup r> min >r 2rot r> ;
hit? ( n1 n2 n3 n4 n5 n6 n7 n8 -- n3 n4 n9 n10 n1 n2 n7)
 >r 2dup =        \ compare number with found minimum
 if -rot drop 1+ hamming over cells + @ r@ * rot then
 r> drop >r 2rot r>
\ if so, increment and rotate
hamming# ( n1 -- n2)
 1 hamming ! >r   \ set first cell and initialize parms
 0 5 over 3 over 2
 r@ 1 ?do         \ determine minimum and set cell
    dup min? min? min? dup hamming i cells + !
    2 hit? 5 hit? 3 hit? drop
 loop             \ find if minimum equals value
 2drop 2drop 2drop hamming r> 1- cells + @
\ clean up stack and fetch hamming number
test
 cr 21 1 ?do i . i hamming# . cr loop
 1691 hamming# . cr
</lang>

Fortran

Works with: Fortran version 90 and later

Using big_integer_module from here [1] <lang fortran>program Hamming_Test

 use big_integer_module
 implicit none
 
 call Hamming(1,20)
 write(*,*)
 call Hamming(1691)
 write(*,*)
 call Hamming(1000000)
  

contains

subroutine Hamming(first, last)

 integer, intent(in) :: first
 integer, intent(in), optional :: last
 integer :: i, n, i2, i3, i5, lim
 type(big_integer), allocatable :: hnums(:)
 if(present(last)) then
   lim = last
 else
   lim = first
 end if
 if(first < 1 .or. lim > 2500000 ) then
   write(*,*) "Invalid input"
   return
 end if
 
 allocate(hnums(lim))
 
 i2 = 1 ;  i3 = 1 ; i5 = 1  
 hnums(1) = 1
 n = 1
 do while(n < lim)
   n = n + 1
   hnums(n) = mini(2*hnums(i2), 3*hnums(i3), 5*hnums(i5))
   if(2*hnums(i2) == hnums(n)) i2 = i2 + 1
   if(3*hnums(i3) == hnums(n)) i3 = i3 + 1
   if(5*hnums(i5) == hnums(n)) i5 = i5 + 1
 end do
 
 if(present(last)) then
   do i = first, last
     call print_big(hnums(i))
     write(*, "(a)", advance="no") " "
   end do
 else
   call print_big(hnums(first))
 end if
 
 deallocate(hnums)

end subroutine

function mini(a, b, c)

 type(big_integer) :: mini
 type(big_integer), intent(in) :: a, b, c
  
 if(a < b ) then 
   if(a < c) then
     mini = a
   else
     mini = c
   end if
 else if(b < c) then
   mini = b
 else
   mini = c
 end if 

end function mini end program</lang>

Output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36 
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

FunL

Translation of: Scala

<lang funl>native scala.collection.mutable.Queue

val hamming =

 q2 = Queue()
 q3 = Queue()
 q5 = Queue()
 
 def enqueue( n ) =
   q2.enqueue( n*2 )
   q3.enqueue( n*3 )
   q5.enqueue( n*5 )
 def stream =
   val n = min( min(q2.head(), q3.head()), q5.head() )
   
   if q2.head() == n then q2.dequeue()
   if q3.head() == n then q3.dequeue()
   if q5.head() == n then q5.dequeue()
   
   enqueue( n )
   n # stream()
   
 for q <- [q2, q3, q5] do q.enqueue( 1 )
 
 stream()</lang>
Translation of: Haskell

<lang funl>val hamming = 1 # merge( map((2*), hamming), merge(map((3*), hamming), map((5*), hamming)) )

def

 merge( inx@x:_, iny@y:_ )
   | x < y     = x # merge( inx.tail(), iny )
   | x > y     = y # merge( inx, iny.tail() )
   | otherwise = merge( inx, iny.tail() )

println( hamming.take(20) ) println( hamming(1690) ) println( hamming(2000) )</lang>

Output:
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36]
2125764000
8100000000

Go

Concise version using dynamic-programming

<lang go>package main

import (

   "fmt"
   "math/big"

)

func min(a, b *big.Int) *big.Int {

   if a.Cmp(b) < 0 {
       return a
   }
   return b

}

func hamming(n int) []*big.Int {

   h := make([]*big.Int, n)
   h[0] = big.NewInt(1)
   two, three, five    := big.NewInt(2), big.NewInt(3), big.NewInt(5)
   next2, next3, next5 := big.NewInt(2), big.NewInt(3), big.NewInt(5)
   i, j, k := 0, 0, 0
   for m := 1; m < len(h); m++ {
       h[m] = new(big.Int).Set(min(next2, min(next3, next5)))
       if h[m].Cmp(next2) == 0 { i++; next2.Mul(  two, h[i]) } 
       if h[m].Cmp(next3) == 0 { j++; next3.Mul(three, h[j]) } 
       if h[m].Cmp(next5) == 0 { k++; next5.Mul( five, h[k]) } 
   }
   return h

}

func main() {

   h := hamming(1e6)
   fmt.Println(h[:20])
   fmt.Println(h[1691-1])
   fmt.Println(h[len(h)-1])

}</lang>

Output:
[1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36]
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Longer version using dynamic-programming and logarithms

More than 10 times faster. <lang go>package main

import ( "flag" "fmt" "log" "math" "math/big" "os" )

var ( // print the whole sequence or just one element?

seqMode = flag.Bool("s", false, "sequence mode") // precomputed base-2 logarithms for 3 and 5 lg3, lg5 float64 = math.Log2(3), math.Log2(5)

// state of the three multiplied sequences front = [3]cursor{ {0, 0, 1}, // 2 {1, 0, lg3}, // 3 {2, 0, lg5}, // 5 }

// table for dynamic-programming stored results table [][3]int16 )

type cursor struct { f int // index (0, 1, 2) corresponding to factor (2, 3, 5) i int // index into table for the entry being multiplied lg float64 // base-2 logarithm of the multiple (for ordering) }

func (c *cursor) val() [3]int16 { x := table[c.i] x[c.f]++ // multiply by incrementing the exponent return x }

func (c *cursor) advance() { c.i++ // skip entries that would produce duplicates for (c.f < 2 && table[c.i][2] > 0) || (c.f < 1 && table[c.i][1] > 0) { c.i++ } x := c.val() c.lg = float64(x[0]) + lg3*float64(x[1]) + lg5*float64(x[2]) }

func step() { table = append(table, front[0].val()) front[0].advance() // re-establish sorted order if front[0].lg > front[1].lg { front[0], front[1] = front[1], front[0] if front[1].lg > front[2].lg { front[1], front[2] = front[2], front[1] } } } func show(elem [3]int16) { z := big.NewInt(1) for i, base := range []int64{2, 3, 5} { b := big.NewInt(base) x := big.NewInt(int64(elem[i])) z.Mul(z, b.Exp(b, x, nil)) } fmt.Println(z) }

func main() { log.SetPrefix(os.Args[0] + ": ") log.SetOutput(os.Stderr) flag.Parse() if flag.NArg() != 1 { log.Fatalln("need one positive integer argument") } var ordinal int // ordinal of last sequence element to compute _, err := fmt.Sscan(flag.Arg(0), &ordinal) if err != nil || ordinal <= 0 { log.Fatalln("argument must be a positive integer") } table = make([][3]int16, 1, ordinal) for i, n := 1, ordinal; i < n; i++ { if *seqMode { show(table[i-1]) } step() } show(table[ordinal-1]) }</lang>

Output:
$ ./hamming -s 20 | xargs
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
$ time ./hamming 1000000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

real	0m0.110s
user	0m0.090s
sys	0m0.020s
$ uname -a
Linux lance 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 6 16:18:35 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Low Memory Use Enumerating Version Eliminating Duplicates

While the above code is fast due to avoiding big.Int operations and being tuned to avoid duplication of work, it has two problems: It uses memory at about six times the value of "n", the nth value and has a practical upper range where the logarithm estimate used to compare currently processed value round off error will become too big so that values will become not in proper order for some values for large ranges. This latter problem could be fixed by using double precision of two 64-bit uint's for the accumulated estimate, but the algorithm would still consume quite a lot of memory.

The following algorithm implements a continuously increasing enumeration of the Hamming numbers at about the same speed as the first solution by eliminating duplicate calculations, by organizing the streams/lazylists so that the least dense ones are processed first, and by using local variables that don't retain the heads of the streams/lazylists so that they can be garbage collected as consumed. In this way, the billionth value can be calculated using only about a billion bytes of memory (one sixth of the above), with most of that used for storage of the necessary big.Int's. If a tweaked logarithm algorithm were used, it would reduce the memory use almost to zero and would speed it up, although not to the same extent as the immediately above code as much of the remaining time would be spent in allocation of new stream/lazylist values and garbage collection.

The program implements the memoized streams/lazylists with a "roll-your-own" implementation and only the necessary methods as required by this algorithm as Go does not have a library to supply such, and uses a function closure to implement a simple form of enumeration of the Hamming values. It used "llmult to perform the function of the "map" function used in the Haskell code, which is to produce a new stream which has each value of the input stream multiplied by a constant. Instead of the Haskell "foldl" function, this program uses a simple Go "for" comprehension of the input primes array.

Translation of: Haskell

<lang go>// Hamming project main.go package main

import ( "fmt" "math/big" "time" )

type lazyList struct { head *big.Int tail *lazyList contf func() *lazyList }

func (oll *lazyList) next() *lazyList { if oll.contf != nil { // not thread-safe oll.tail = oll.contf() oll.contf = nil } return oll.tail }

func merge(a *lazyList, b *lazyList) *lazyList { rslt := new(lazyList) x := a.head y := b.head if x.Cmp(y) < 0 { rslt.head = x rslt.contf = func() *lazyList { return merge(a.next(), b) } } else { rslt.head = y rslt.contf = func() *lazyList { return merge(a, b.next()) } } return rslt }

func llmult(m *big.Int, ll *lazyList) *lazyList { rslt := new(lazyList) rslt.head = new(big.Int).Set(big.NewInt(0)).Mul(m, ll.head) rslt.contf = func() *lazyList { return llmult(m, ll.next()) } return rslt }

func u(s *lazyList, n *big.Int) *lazyList { rslt := new(lazyList) cr := new(lazyList) cr.head = big.NewInt(1) cr.contf = func() *lazyList { return rslt } if s == nil { rslt = llmult(n, cr) } else { rslt = merge(s, llmult(n, cr)) } return rslt }

func Hamming() func() *big.Int { prms := []int64{5, 3, 2} curr := new(lazyList) curr.head = big.NewInt(1) curr.contf = func() *lazyList { var r *lazyList = nil for _, v := range prms { r = u(r, big.NewInt(v)) } return r } return func() *big.Int { temp := curr curr = curr.next() return temp.head } }

func main() { n := 1000000

hamiter := Hamming() rarr := make([]*big.Int, 20) for i, _ := range rarr { rarr[i] = hamiter() } fmt.Println(rarr)

hamiter = Hamming() for i := 1; i < 1691; i++ { hamiter() } fmt.Println(hamiter())

strt := time.Now()

hamiter = Hamming() for i := 1; i < n; i++ { hamiter() } rslt := hamiter()

end := time.Now() fmt.Printf("Found the %vth Hamming number as %v in %v.\r\n", n, rslt.String(), end.Sub(strt)) } </lang>

The outputs are about the same as the above versions. In order to perform this algorithm, one can see how much more verbose Go is than more functional languages such as Haskell or F# for this primarily functional algorithm.

Fast imperative version avoiding duplicates, reducing memory, and using logarithmic representation

While the above version can calculate to larger ranges due to somewhat reduced memory use, it is still somewhat limited as to range by memory limits due to the increasing size of the big integers used, limited in speed due to those big integer calculations, and also limited in speed due to Go's slow memory allocations and de-allocations. The following code uses combined techniques to overcome all three limitations: 1) as for other solutions on this page, it uses a representation using integer exponents of 2, 3, and 5 and a scaled integer logarithm only for value comparisons (scaled such that round-off errors aren't a factor over the applicable range); thus memory use per element is constant rather than growing with range for big integers, and operations are simple integer comparisons and additions and are thus very fast. 2) memory reductions are by draining the used arrays by batches (rather than one by one as above) in place to reduce the time required for constant allocations and de-allocations. The code is as follows:

Translation of: Rust

<lang golang>package main

import ( "fmt" "math/big" "time" )

// constants as expanded integers to minimize round-off errors, and // reduce execution time using integer operations not float... const cLAA2 uint64 = 35184372088832 // 2.0f64.ln() * 2.0f64.powi(45)).round() as u64; const cLBA2 uint64 = 55765910372219 // 3.0f64.ln() / 2.0f64.ln() * 2.0f64.powi(45)).round() as u64; const cLCA2 uint64 = 81695582054030 // 5.0f64.ln() / 2.0f64.ln() * 2.0f64.powi(45)).round() as u64;

type logelm struct { // log representation of an element with only allowable powers

   exp2 uint16
   exp3 uint16
   exp5 uint16
   logr uint64 // log representation used for comparison only - not exact

}

func (self *logelm) lte(othr *logelm) bool {

   if self.logr <= othr.logr {
       return true
   } else {
       return false
   }

} func (self *logelm) mul2() logelm {

   return logelm{
       exp2: self.exp2 + 1,
       exp3: self.exp3,
       exp5: self.exp5,
       logr: self.logr + cLAA2,
   }

} func (self *logelm) mul3() logelm {

   return logelm{
       exp2: self.exp2,
       exp3: self.exp3 + 1,
       exp5: self.exp5,
       logr: self.logr + cLBA2,
   }

} func (self *logelm) mul5() logelm {

   return logelm{
       exp2: self.exp2,
       exp3: self.exp3,
       exp5: self.exp5 + 1,
       logr: self.logr + cLCA2,
   }

}

func log_nodups_hamming(n uint) *big.Int {

   if n < 1 {
       panic("log_nodups_hamming: argument < 1!")
   }
   if n < 2 { // trivial case of first in sequence
       return big.NewInt(1)
   }
   if n > 1.2e15 {
       panic("log_nodups_hamming: argument too large!")
   }
   one := logelm{}
   next5, merge := one.mul5(), one.mul3()
   next53, next532 := merge.mul3(), one.mul2()
   g := make([]logelm, 1, 65536)
   g[0] = one // never used, just so append works
   h := make([]logelm, 1, 65536)
   h[0] = one // never used, just so append works
   i, j := 1, 1
   for m := uint(1); m < n; m++ {
   cph := cap(h)
   if i >= cph/2 {
           nm := copy(h[0:i], h[i:])
           h = h[0:nm:cph]
           i = 0
       }
       if next532.lte(&merge) {
           h = append(h, next532)
           next532 = h[i].mul2()
           i++
       } else {
           h = append(h, merge)
           if next53.lte(&next5) {
               merge = next53
               next53 = g[j].mul3()
               j++
           } else {
               merge = next5
               next5 = next5.mul5()
           }
           cpg := cap(g)
           if j >= cpg/2 {
               nm := copy(g[0:j], g[j:])
               g = g[0:nm:cpg]
               j = 0
           }
           g = append(g, merge)
       }
   }
   two, three, five := big.NewInt(2), big.NewInt(3), big.NewInt(5)
   o := h[len(h)-1] // convert last element to big integer...
   ob := big.NewInt(1)
   for i := uint16(0); i < o.exp2; i++ {
       ob.Mul(two, ob)
   }
   for i := uint16(0); i < o.exp3; i++ {
       ob.Mul(three, ob)
   }
   for i := uint16(0); i < o.exp5; i++ {
       ob.Mul(five, ob)
   }
   return ob

}

func main() {

   n := uint(1e6)
   rarr := make([]*big.Int, 20)
   for i, _ := range rarr {
       rarr[i] = log_nodumps_hamming(i)
   }
   fmt.Println(rarr)
   fmt.Println(log_nodups_hamming(1691))
   strt := time.Now()
   rslt := log_nodups_hamming(n)
   end := time.Now()
   rs := rslt.String()
   lrs := len(rs)
   fmt.Printf("%v digits:\r\n", lrs)
   ndx := 0
   for ; ndx < lrs-100; ndx += 100 {
       fmt.Println(rs[ndx : ndx+100])
   }
   fmt.Println(rs[ndx:])
   fmt.Printf("This last found the %vth hamming number in %v.\r\n", n, end.Sub(strt))

}</lang>

Output:
[1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36]
2125764000
84 digits:
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
This last found the 1000000th hamming number in 10.0006ms.

The above code can produce the billionth hamming number (844 digits) in about 14 seconds and given a machine with over 9 Gigabytes, it can calculate to the limit of 1.2e13 (about 19,335 digits) in about a day or so. Functional enumerating versions as the immediately precedent code, even if adapted to the logarithm algorithm, will take longer because of the time required for enumeration, but much worse is the time required for allocations/de-allocations (garbage collection) of individual elements rather than as here in batches and for the majority of times done in place not requiring allocation/de-allocation at all.

Extremely fast version inserting logarithms into the top error band

The above code is not as fast as one can go as it is limited by the need to calculate all Hamming numbers in the sequence up to the required one: some reading on the relationship between the size of numbers to the sequence numbers is helpful (Wikipedia: regular number). One finds that there is a very distinct relationship and that it quite quickly reduces to quite a small error band proportional to the log of the output value for larger ranges. Thus, the following code just scans for logarithmic representations to insert into a sequence for this top error band and extracts the correct nth representation from that band. It reduces time complexity to O(n^(2/3)) from O(n) for the sequence versions, but even more amazingly, reduces memory requirements to O(n^(1/3)) from O(n^(2/3)) and thus makes it possible to calculate very large values in the sequence on common personal computers. The code is as follows:

Translation of: Nim

<lang golang>package main

import (

  "fmt"
  "math"
  "math/big"
  "sort"
  "time"

)

type logrep struct {

  lg         float64
  x2, x3, x5 uint32

} type logreps []logrep func (s logreps) Len() int { // necessary methods for sorting

  return len(s)

} func (s logreps) Swap(i, j int) {

  s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i]

} func (s logreps) Less(i, j int) bool {

  return s[j].lg < s[i].lg // sort in decreasing order (reverse order compare)

}

func nthHamming(n uint64) (uint32, uint32, uint32) {

  if n < 2 {
     if n < 1 {
        panic("nthHamming:  argument is zero!")
     }
     return 0, 0, 0
  }
  const lb3 = 1.5849625007211561814537389439478 // math.Log2(3.0)
  const lb5 = 2.3219280948873623478703194294894 // math.Log2(5.0)
  fctr := 6.0 * lb3 * lb5
  crctn := math.Log2(math.Sqrt(30.0)) // from WP formula
  lgest := math.Pow(fctr*float64(n), 1.0/3.0) - crctn
  var frctn float64
  if n < 1000000000 {
     frctn = 0.509
  } else {
     frctn = 0.106
  }
  lghi := math.Pow(fctr*(float64(n)+frctn*lgest), 1.0/3.0) - crctn
  lglo := 2.0*lgest - lghi // and a lower limit of the upper "band"
  var count uint64 = 0
  bnd := make(logreps, 0) // give it one value so doubling size works
  klmt := uint32(lghi/lb5) + 1
  for k := uint32(0); k < klmt; k++ {
     p := float64(k) * lb5
     jlmt := uint32((lghi-p)/lb3) + 1
     for j := uint32(0); j < jlmt; j++ {
        q := p + float64(j)*lb3
        ir := lghi - q
        lg := q + math.Floor(ir) // current log value estimated
        count += uint64(ir) + 1
        if lg >= lglo {
           bnd = append(bnd, logrep{lg, uint32(ir), j, k})
        }
     }
  }
  if n > count {
     panic("nthHamming:  band high estimate is too low!")
  }
  ndx := int(count - n)
  if ndx >= bnd.Len() {
     panic("nthHamming:  band low estimate is too high!")
  }
  sort.Sort(bnd) // sort decreasing order due definition of Less above
  rslt := bnd[ndx]
  return rslt.x2, rslt.x3, rslt.x5

}

func convertTpl2BigInt(x2, x3, x5 uint32) *big.Int {

  result := big.NewInt(1)
  two := big.NewInt(2)
  three := big.NewInt(3)
  five := big.NewInt(5)
  for i := uint32(0); i < x2; i++ {
     result.Mul(result, two)
  }
  for i := uint32(0); i < x3; i++ {
     result.Mul(result, three)
  }
  for i := uint32(0); i < x5; i++ {
     result.Mul(result, five)
  }
  return result

}

func main() {

  for i := 1; i <= 20; i++ {
     fmt.Printf("%v ", convertTpl2BigInt(nthHamming(uint64(i))))
  }
  fmt.Println()
  fmt.Println(convertTpl2BigInt(nthHamming(1691)))
  strt := time.Now()
  x2, x3, x5 := nthHamming(uint64(1e6))
  end := time.Now()
  fmt.Printf("2^%v times 3^%v times 5^%v\r\n", x2, x3, x5)
  lrslt := convertTpl2BigInt(x2, x3, x5)
  lgrslt := (float64(x2) + math.Log2(3.0)*float64(x3) +
              math.Log2(5.0)*float64(x5)) * math.Log10(2.0)
  exp := math.Floor(lgrslt)
  mant := math.Pow(10.0, lgrslt-exp)
  fmt.Printf("Approximately:  %vE+%v\r\n", mant, exp)
  rs := lrslt.String()
  lrs := len(rs)
  fmt.Printf("%v digits:\r\n", lrs)
  if lrs <= 10000 {
     ndx := 0
     for ; ndx < lrs-100; ndx += 100 {
        fmt.Println(rs[ndx : ndx+100])
     }
     fmt.Println(rs[ndx:])
  }
  fmt.Printf("This last found the %vth hamming number in %v.\r\n", n, end.Sub(strt))

}</lang>

Output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36 
2125764000
2^55 times 3^47 times 5^64
Approximately:  5.193127804483804E+83
84 digits:
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
This last found the 1000000th hamming number in 0s.

As can be seen above, the time to calculate the millionth Hamming number is now too small to be measured. The billionth number in the sequence can be calculated in just about 15 milliseconds, the trillionth in about 1.5 seconds, the thousand trillionth in about 150 seconds, and it should be possible to calculate the 10^19th value in less than a day (untested) on common personal computers. The (2^64 - 1)th value (18446744073709551615th value) cannot be calculated due to a slight overflow problem as it approaches that limit.

Haskell

The classic version

<lang haskell>hamming = 1 : map (2*) hamming `union` map (3*) hamming `union` map (5*) hamming

union a@(x:xs) b@(y:ys) = case compare x y of

           LT -> x : union  xs  b
           EQ -> x : union  xs  ys
           GT -> y : union  a   ys

main = do

   print $ take 20 hamming
   print  (hamming !! (1691-1), hamming !! (1692-1))
   print $ hamming !! (1000000-1)

-- Output: -- [1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15,16,18,20,24,25,27,30,32,36] -- (2125764000,2147483648) -- 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</lang> Runs in about a second on Ideone.com. The nested unions' effect is to produce the minimal value at each step, with duplicates removed. As Haskell evaluation model is on-demand, the three map expressions are in effect iterators, maintaining hidden pointers back into the shared named storage with which they were each created (a name is a pointer/handle in Haskell; to name is to point at, to refer to, to take a handle on).

The amount of operations is constant for each number produced, so the time complexity should be . Empirically, it is slightly above that and worsening, suggestive of extra cost of bignum arithmetics. Using triples representation with logarithm values for comparisons amends this problem, but runs ~ 1.2x slower for the 1,000,000.

This is what that DDJ blog "pseudo-C" code was transcribing, mentioned at the Python entry that started this task ( curiously, it is in almost word-for-word correspondence with Edsger Dijkstra's code from his book A Discipline of Programming, p. 132 ). D, Go, PARI/GP, Prolog all implement the same idea of back-pointers into shared storage. A Haskell run-time system can actually free up the storage automatically at the start of the shared list and only keep the needed portion of it, from the (5*) back-pointer, – which is about in length – behind the scenes, as long as there's no re-use evident in the code.

Avoiding generation of duplicates

The classic version can be sped up quite a bit (about twice, with roughly the same empirical orders of growth) by avoiding generation of duplicate values: <lang haskell>hamming = 1 : foldr u [] [2,3,5] where

       u n s = -- fix (merge s . map (n*) . (1:))
               r where 
               r = merge s (map (n*) (1:r))

merge [] b = b merge a@(x:xs) b@(y:ys) | x < y = x : merge xs b

                       | otherwise = y : merge a ys

main = do print $ take 20 (hamming ()) print $ (hamming ()) !! 1690 print $ (hamming ()) !! (1000000-1)</lang>

Explicit multiples reinserting

This is a common approach which explicitly maintains an internal buffer of elements, removing the numbers from its front and reinserting their 2- 3- and 5-multiples in order. It overproduces the sequence, stopping when the n-th number is no longer needed instead of when it's first found. Also overworks by maintaining this buffer in total order where just heap would be sufficient. Worse, this particular version uses a sequential list for its buffer. That means operations for each number, instead of of the above version (and thus overall). Translation of Java (which does use priority queue though, so should have O‍ ‍(n‍ ‍logn) operations overall). Uses union from the "classic" version above: <lang Haskell>hamm n = drop n $ iterate (\(_,(a:t))-> (a,union t [2*a,3*a,5*a])) (0,[1])</lang>

Output:

<lang Haskell>*Main> map fst $ take 20 $ hamm 1 [1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15,16,18,20,24,25,27,30,32,36]

  • Main> map fst $ take 2 $ hamm 1691

[2125764000,2147483648]

  • Main> mapM_ print $ take 10 $ hamm 1

(1,[2,3,5]) (2,[3,4,5,6,10]) (3,[4,5,6,9,10,15]) (4,[5,6,8,9,10,12,15,20]) (5,[6,8,9,10,12,15,20,25]) (6,[8,9,10,12,15,18,20,25,30]) (8,[9,10,12,15,16,18,20,24,25,30,40]) (9,[10,12,15,16,18,20,24,25,27,30,40,45]) (10,[12,15,16,18,20,24,25,27,30,40,45,50]) (12,[15,16,18,20,24,25,27,30,36,40,45,50,60])

  • Main> map (length.snd.head.hamm) [2000,4000,8000,16000]

[402,638,1007,1596]</lang> Runs too slowly to reach 1,000,000, with empirical orders of growth above ~‍ ‍(n‍ ‍1.7‍ ‍) and worsening. Last two lines show the internal buffer's length for several sample n‍ ‍s.

Direct calculation through triples enumeration

It is also possible to more or less directly calculate the n-th Hamming number by enumerating (and counting) all the (i,j,k) triples below its estimated value – with ordering according to their exponents, i*ln2 + j*ln3 + k*ln5 – while storing only the "band" of topmost triples close enough to the target value (more in the original post on DDJ). The savings come from enumerating only pairs of indices, and finding the corresponding third index by a direct calculation, thus achieving the O(n^(2/3)) time complexity. Space complexity, with constant empirical estimation correction, is ~n^(2/3); but is further tweaked to ~n^(1/3).

The total count of thus produced triples is then the band's topmost value's index in the Hamming sequence, 1-based. The nth number in the sequence is then found by a simple lookup in the sorted band, provided it was wide enough. This produces the 1,000,000-th value instantaneously. As of 2016-08, the 10 billionth element is found in 1.5 seconds on Ideone.com (under half a second with a more optimized code): <lang haskell>-- directly find n-th Hamming number, in ~ O(n^{2/3}) time -- based on "top band" idea by Louis Klauder, from DDJ discussion -- by Will Ness, original post: drdobbs.com/blogs/architecture-and-design/228700538

import Data.List ( sortBy ) import Data.Function ( on )

main = let (r,t) = nthHam 1000000 in print t >> print (trival t)

lb3 = logBase 2 3; lb5 = logBase 2 5; lb30_2 = logBase 2 30 / 2 trival (i,j,k) = 2^i * 3^j * 5^k estval n

   | n > 500000  = (v - lb30_2 + (3/v), 6/v)             -- the space tweak! (thx, GBG!)
   | n > 500000  = (v - 2.4496 , 0.0076 )                -- empirical estimation 
   | n > 50000   = (v - 2.4424 , 0.0146 )                --   correction, base 2
   | n > 500     = (v - 2.3948 , 0.0723 )                --     (dist,width)
   | n > 1       = (v - 2.2506 , 0.2887 )                -- around (log $ sqrt 30), 
   | otherwise   = (v - 2.2506 , 0.5771 )                --   says WP
 where v = (6*lb3*lb5* fromIntegral n)**(1/3)            -- estimated logval, base 2

nthHam :: Integer -> (Double, (Int, Int, Int)) -- ( 64bit: use Int!!! NB! ) nthHam n -- n: 1-based: 1,2,3...

 | n <= 0    = error $ "n is 1--based: must be n > 0: " ++ show n
 | w >= 1    = error $ "Breach of contract: (w < 1):  " ++ show w
 | m <  0    = error $ "Not enough triples generated: " ++ show (c,n)
 | m >= nb   = error $ "Generated band is too narrow: " ++ show (m,nb)
 | otherwise = sortBy (flip compare `on` fst) b !! m     -- m-th from top in sorted band
where  
 (hi,w) = estval n                                       --   hi > logval > hi-w
 m      = fromIntegral (c - n)                           -- target index, from top
 nb     = length b                                       -- length of the band
 (c,b)  = prod (sum,concat) . unzip $                    -- ( total count, the band )
           [ ( fromIntegral i+1,                         -- total triples w/ this (j,k)
               [ (r,(i,j,k)) | frac < w ] )              -- store it, if inside band
             | k <- [ 0 .. floor ( hi   /lb5) ],  let p = fromIntegral k*lb5,    
               j <- [ 0 .. floor ((hi-p)/lb3) ],  let q = fromIntegral j*lb3 + p,
               let (i,frac) = pr  (hi-q) ;            r = hi - frac  -- r = i + q 
           ] where  pr      = properFraction             -- pr 1.24 => (1,0.24)
                    prod (f,g) (x,y) = (f x, g y)</lang>
Output:
-- time: 0.00s    memory: 5.8MB
(55,47,64)
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Alternative to the above, reducing space and time requirements

The above code and the DDJ article are not quite true to the Wikipedia article referenced in that they don't use the fact that the error term in the estimation of the log of the resulting value for the nth Hamming number is directly proportional to this same log result. Using this fact, we are able to reduce the span of the "band" to only a constant fraction of the estimated log result for large n (determined empirically), and thus reduce memory space requirements to O(n^(1/3)) from O(n^(2/3)) for a considerable space saving for larger ranges.

As well, although it isn't quite as elegant in a Haskell style sense, one can save quite a large constant factor in execution time (including allocation/garbage collection) by replacing the "loops" based on list comprehensions to tail-recursive function call "loops", as in the following code:

<lang haskell>{-# OPTIONS -O2 -XBangPatterns #-}

import Data.Word import Data.List (sortBy) import Data.Function (on)

main = let t = nthHam 1000000000000 in print t

lb3 = logBase 2 3; lb5 = logBase 2 5 lbrt30 = logBase 2 $ sqrt 30 :: Double -- estimate adjustment as per WP -- logval (i,j,k) = fromIntegral i + fromIntegral j*lb3 + fromIntegral k*lb5 trival (i,j,k) = 2^i * 3^j * 5^k estval2 n = (6*lb3*lb5*n)**(1/3) - lbrt30 -- estimated logval, base 2 crctn n

   | n < 1000       = 0.509  -- empirical correction terms
   | n < 1000000    = 0.206
   | n < 1000000000 = 0.122  -- further divisions have little effect as already small
   | otherwise      = 0.105  -- very slowly decrease from this point for a billion

nthHam :: Integer -> (Int, Int, Int) -- change Integer to Word64 for 64-bit code nthHam n -- n: 1-based 1,2,3...

 | n < 2     = case n of
                 0 -> error "nthHam:  Argument is zero!"
                 _ -> (0, 0, 0)                           -- trivial case for 1
 | m <  0    = error $ "Not enough triples generated: " ++ show (c,n)
 | m >= nb   = error $ "Generated band is too narrow: " ++ show (m,nb)
 | otherwise = case res of (_, tv) -> tv -- 2^i * 3^j * 5^k
where
 (fr,est)= (crctn n, estval2 $ fromIntegral n)            -- fraction of log2 error, est val
 (hi,lo)  = (estval2 (fromIntegral n + fr*est), 2*est-hi) -- hi > logval2 >= lo
 (c,b)    = f ()
 f () =
   let klmt = floor (hi/lb5) in
   let loopk k !ck bndk =
         if k > klmt then (ck, bndk) else
         let p = fromIntegral k*lb5; jlmt = floor ((hi-p)/lb3) in
         let loopj j !cj bndj =
               if j > jlmt then loopk (k+1) cj bndj else
               let q = fromIntegral j*lb3 + p in
               let (i, frac) = properFraction (hi-q); r = hi-frac in
               if r < lo then loopj (j+1) (fromIntegral i+cj+1) bndj else
               loopj (j+1) (fromIntegral i+cj+1) ((r,(i,j,k)):bndj) in
         loopj 0 ck bndk in
   loopk 0 0 []
 (m,nb)    = ( fromIntegral $ c - n, length b )           -- m 0-based from top, |band|
 (s,res)   = ( sortBy (flip compare `on` fst) b, s!!m )   -- sorted decreasing, result</lang>

The output is the same as the other version except that the execution time for the millionth Hamming number is too small to be measured. The time for the billionth is about 16 milliseconds, for the trillionth is about two seconds, and the thousand trillionth is about 200 seconds; this implementation can likely calculate the 10^19th Hamming number in less than a day and can't quite reach the (2^64-1)th (18446744073709551615th) Hamming due to a slight range overflow as it approaches this limit. Maximum memory used to these limits is less than a few hundred Megabytes, so possible on typical personal computers given the required day or two of computing time.

Icon and Unicon

This solution uses Unicon's object oriented extensions. An Icon only version has not been provided.

Lazy evaluation is used to improve performance. <lang Unicon># Lazily generate the three Hamming numbers that can be derived directly

  1. from a known Hamming number h

class Triplet : Class (cv, ce)

   method nextVal()
       suspend cv := @ce
   end
   initially (baseNum)
       cv := 2*baseNum
       ce := create (3|5)*baseNum

end

  1. Generate Hamming numbers, in order. Default is first 30
  2. But an optional argument can be used to generate more (or less)
  3. e.g. hamming 5000 generates the first 5000.

procedure main(args)

   limit := integer(args[1]) | 30
   every write("\t", generateHamming() \ limit)

end

  1. Do the work. Start with known Hamming number 1 and maintain
  2. a set of triplet Hamming numbers as they get derived from that
  3. one. Most of the code here is to figure out which Hamming
  4. number is next in sequence (while removing duplicates)

procedure generateHamming()

   triplers := set()
   insert(triplers, Triplet(1))
   suspend 1
   repeat {
       # Pick a Hamming triplet that *may* have the next smallest number
       t1 := !triplers         # any will do to start
       every t1 ~=== (t2 := !triplers) do {
           if t1.cv > t2.cv then {
              # oops we were wrong, switch assumption
              t1 := t2
              }
           else if t1.cv = t2.cv then {
              # t2's value is a duplicate, so
              # advance triplet t2, if none left in t2, remove it
              t2.nextVal() | delete(triplers, t2)
              }
          }
       # Ok, t1 has the next Hamming number, grab it
       suspend t1.cv
       insert(triplers, Triplet(t1.cv)) 
       # Advance triplet t1, if none left in t1, remove it
       t1.nextVal() | delete(triplers, t1)
       }

end</lang>

J

Solution:
A concise tacit expression using a (right) fold: <lang j>hamming=: {. (/:~@~.@] , 2 3 5 * {)/@(1x ,~ i.@-)</lang> Example usage: <lang j> hamming 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36

  {: hamming 1691

2125764000</lang> For the millionth (and billionth (1e9)) Hamming number see the nh verb from Hamming Number essay on the J wiki.

Explanation:
I'll explain this J-sentence by dividing it in three parts from left to right omitting the leftmost {.:

  • sort and remove duplicates

<lang j> /:~@~.@]</lang>

  • produce (the next) 3 elements by selection and multiplication:

<lang j> 2 3 5 * {</lang> note that LHA (2 3 5 * {) RHA is equivalent to <lang j> 2 3 5 * LHA { RHA</lang>

  • the RH part forms an array of descending indices and the initial Hamming number 1

<lang j> (1x ,~ i.@-)</lang> e.g. if we want the first 5 Hamming numbers, it produces the array:

4 3 2 1 0 1

in other words, we compute a sequence which begins with the desired hamming sequence and then take the first n elements (which will be our desired hamming sequence) <lang j> ({. (/:~@~.@] , 2 3 5 * {)/@(1x ,~ i.@-)) 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 8</lang> This starts using a descending sequence with 1 appended: <lang j> (1x ,~ i.@-) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1</lang> and then the fold expression is inserted between these list elements and the result computed: <lang j> 6(/:~@~.@] , 2 3 5 * {) 5(/:~@~.@] , 2 3 5 * {) 4(/:~@~.@] , 2 3 5 * {) 3(/:~@~.@] , 2 3 5 * {) 2(/:~@~.@] , 2 3 5 * {) 1(/:~@~.@] , 2 3 5 * {) 0(/:~@~.@] , 2 3 5 * {) 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 18 20 25 30 16 24 40</lang> (Note: A train of verbs in J is evaluated by supplying arguments to the every other verb (counting from the right) and the combining these results with the remaining verbs. Also: { has been implemented so that an index of 0 will select the only item from an array with no dimensions.)

Java

Works with: Java version 1.5+

Has a common shortcoming of overproducing the sequence by about entries, until the n-th number is no longer needed, instead of stopping as soon as it is reached. See Haskell for an illustration.

Inserting the top number's three multiples deep into the priority queue as it does, incurs extra cost for each number produced. To not worsen the expected algorithm complexity, the priority queue should have (amortized) implementation for both insertion and deletion operations but it looks like it's in Java. <lang java5>import java.math.BigInteger; import java.util.PriorityQueue;

final class Hamming {

   private static BigInteger THREE = BigInteger.valueOf(3);
   private static BigInteger FIVE = BigInteger.valueOf(5);
   private static void updateFrontier(BigInteger x,
                                      PriorityQueue<BigInteger> pq) {
       pq.offer(x.shiftLeft(1));
       pq.offer(x.multiply(THREE));
       pq.offer(x.multiply(FIVE));
   }
   public static BigInteger hamming(int n) {
       if (n <= 0)
           throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid parameter");
       PriorityQueue<BigInteger> frontier = new PriorityQueue<BigInteger>();
       updateFrontier(BigInteger.ONE, frontier);
       BigInteger lowest = BigInteger.ONE;
       for (int i = 1; i < n; i++) {
           lowest = frontier.poll();
           while (frontier.peek().equals(lowest))
               frontier.poll();
           updateFrontier(lowest, frontier);
       }
       return lowest;
   }
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       System.out.print("Hamming(1 .. 20) =");
       for (int i = 1; i < 21; i++)
            System.out.print(" " + hamming(i));
       System.out.println("\nHamming(1691) = " + hamming(1691));
       System.out.println("Hamming(1000000) = " + hamming(1000000));
   }

}</lang>

Output:
Hamming(1 .. 20) = 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
Hamming(1691) = 2125764000
Hamming(1000000) = 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Another possibility is to realize that Hamming numbers can be represented and stored as triples of nonnegative integers which are the powers of 2, 3 and 5, and do all operations needed by the algorithms directly on these triples without converting to , which saves tremendous memory and time. Also, the search frontier through this three-dimensional grid can be generated in an order that never reaches the same state twice, so we don't need to keep track which states have already been encountered, saving even more memory. The objects of encode Hamming numbers in three fields , and . Multiplying by 2, 3 and 5 can now be done just by incrementing that field. The order comparison of triples needed by the priority queue is implemented with simple logarithm formulas of multiplication and addition, resorting to conversion to only in the rare cases that the floating point arithmetic produces too close results.

<lang java5> import java.math.BigInteger; import java.util.*;

// ilkka.kokkarinen@gmail.com

public class HammingTriple implements Comparable<HammingTriple> {

   // Precompute a couple of constants that we need all the time
   private static final BigInteger two = BigInteger.valueOf(2);
   private static final BigInteger three = BigInteger.valueOf(3);
   private static final BigInteger five = BigInteger.valueOf(5);
   private static final double logOf2 = Math.log(2);
   private static final double logOf3 = Math.log(3);
   private static final double logOf5 = Math.log(5);
       
   // The powers of this triple
   private int a, b, c;
     
   public HammingTriple(int a, int b, int c) {
       this.a = a; this.b = b; this.c = c;
   }
   
   public String toString() {
       return "[" + a + ", " + b + ", " + c + "]";
   }
   
   public BigInteger getValue() {
       return two.pow(a).multiply(three.pow(b)).multiply(five.pow(c));
   }
   
   public boolean equals(Object other) {
       if(other instanceof HammingTriple) {
           HammingTriple h = (HammingTriple) other;
           return this.a == h.a && this.b == h.b && this.c == h.c;
       }
       else { return false; }
   }
   
   // Return 0 if this == other, +1 if this > other, and -1 if this < other
   public int compareTo(HammingTriple other) {
       // equality
       if(this.a == other.a && this.b == other.b && this.c == other.c) {
           return 0;
       }
       // this dominates
       if(this.a >= other.a && this.b >= other.b && this.c >= other.c) {
           return +1;
       }
       // other dominates
       if(this.a <= other.a && this.b <= other.b && this.c <= other.c) {
           return -1;
       }
      
       // take the logarithms for comparison
       double log1 = this.a * logOf2 + this.b * logOf3 + this.c * logOf5;
       double log2 = other.a * logOf2 + other.b * logOf3 + other.c * logOf5;
       
       // are these different enough to be reliable?
       if(Math.abs(log1 - log2) > 0.0000001) {
           return (log1 < log2) ? -1: +1;
       }
       
       // oh well, looks like we have to do this the hard way
       return this.getValue().compareTo(other.getValue());
       // (getting this far should be pretty rare, though)
   }
   
   public static BigInteger computeHamming(int n, boolean verbose) {
       if(verbose) {
           System.out.println("Hamming number #" + n);
       }
       long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
       
       // The elements of the search frontier
       PriorityQueue<HammingTriple> frontierQ = new PriorityQueue<HammingTriple>();
       int maxFrontierSize = 1;
       
       // Initialize the frontier
       frontierQ.offer(new HammingTriple(0, 0, 0)); // 1
       
       while(true) {
           if(frontierQ.size() > maxFrontierSize) {
               maxFrontierSize = frontierQ.size();
           }
           // Pop out the next Hamming number from the frontier
           HammingTriple curr = frontierQ.poll();
           
           if(--n == 0) {
               if(verbose) {
                   System.out.println("Time: " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime) + " ms");
                   System.out.println("Frontier max size: " + maxFrontierSize);
                   System.out.println("As powers: " + curr.toString());
                   System.out.println("As value: " + curr.getValue());
               }
               return curr.getValue();
           }
           
           // Current times five, if at origin in (a,b) plane
           if(curr.a == 0 && curr.b == 0) {
               frontierQ.offer(new HammingTriple(curr.a, curr.b, curr.c + 1));
           }
           // Current times three, if at line a == 0
           if(curr.a == 0) {
               frontierQ.offer(new HammingTriple(curr.a, curr.b + 1, curr.c));
           }
           // Current times two, unconditionally
           curr.a++;
           frontierQ.offer(curr); // reuse the current HammingTriple object
       }
   }

} </lang>

Hamming number #1000000
Time: 650 ms
Frontier max size: 10777
As powers: [55, 47, 64]
As value: 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Hamming number #1000000000
Time: 1763306 ms
Frontier max size: 1070167
As powers: [1334, 335, 404]
As value: 62160757555652448616308163328720720039470565190896527065916324096423370220027531418244175407
772567327803701726166152919355404186200255249167295000868314547113136940786355040041603128729517887
0364794838245609107270160079056207179759030665476588225699039176388785014115448224991592743918456282
8227449023750262318234797192076792208033475638322151983772515798004125909334741121595323950448656375
1044570269974247729669174417794061727369755885568000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Alternative

This uses memoized streams - similar in principle to the classic lazy-evaluated sequence, but with a java flavor. Hope you like this recipe!

<lang java> import java.math.BigInteger;

public class Hamming {

   public static void main(String args[])
   {
       Stream hamming = makeHamming();
       System.out.print("H[1..20] ");
       for (int i=0; i<20; i++) {
           System.out.print(hamming.value());
           System.out.print(" ");
           hamming = hamming.advance();
       }
       System.out.println();
       System.out.print("H[1691] ");
       hamming = makeHamming();
       for (int i=1; i<1691; i++) {
           hamming = hamming.advance();
       }
       System.out.println(hamming.value());
       hamming = makeHamming();
       System.out.print("H[10^6] ");
       for (int i=1; i<1000000; i++) {
           hamming = hamming.advance();
       }
       System.out.println(hamming.value());
   }
   public interface Stream
   {
       BigInteger value();
       Stream advance();
   }
   public static class MultStream implements Stream
   {
       MultStream(int mult)
       { m_mult = BigInteger.valueOf(mult); }
       MultStream setBase(Stream s)
       { m_base = s; return this; }
       public BigInteger value()
       { return m_mult.multiply(m_base.value()); }
       public Stream advance()
       { return setBase(m_base.advance()); }
       private final BigInteger m_mult;
       private Stream m_base;
   }
   private final static class RegularStream implements Stream
   {
       RegularStream(Stream[] streams, BigInteger val)
       {
           m_streams = streams;
           m_val = val;
       }
       public BigInteger value()
       { return m_val; }
       public Stream advance()
       {
           // memoized value for the next stream instance.
           if (m_advance != null) { return m_advance; }
           int minidx = 0 ;
           BigInteger next = nextStreamValue(0);
           for (int i=1; i<m_streams.length; i++) {
               BigInteger v = nextStreamValue(i);
               if (v.compareTo(next) < 0) {
                   next = v;
                   minidx = i;
               }
           }
           RegularStream ret = new RegularStream(m_streams, next);
           // memoize the value!
           m_advance = ret;
           m_streams[minidx].advance();
           return ret;
       }
       private BigInteger nextStreamValue(int streamidx)
       {
           // skip past duplicates in the streams we're merging.
           BigInteger ret = m_streams[streamidx].value();
           while (ret.equals(m_val)) {
               m_streams[streamidx] = m_streams[streamidx].advance();
               ret = m_streams[streamidx].value();
           }
           return ret;
       }
       private final Stream[] m_streams;
       private final BigInteger m_val;
       private RegularStream m_advance = null;
   }
   private final static Stream makeHamming()
   {
       MultStream nums[] = new MultStream[] {
           new MultStream(2),
           new MultStream(3),
           new MultStream(5)
       };
       Stream ret = new RegularStream(nums, BigInteger.ONE);
       for (int i=0; i<nums.length; i++) {
           nums[i].setBase(ret);
       }
       return ret;
   }

} </lang>

$ java Hamming 
H[1..20] 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36 
H[1691] 2125764000
H[10^6] 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
$ 

JavaScript

Works with: JavaScript version 1.7
Works with: Firefox version 2
Translation of: Ruby

This does not calculate the 1,000,000th Hamming number.

Note the use of for (x in obj) to iterate over the properties of an object, versus for each (y in obj) to iterate over the values of the properties of an object. <lang javascript>function hamming() {

   var queues = {2: [], 3: [], 5: []};
   var base;
   var next_ham = 1;
   while (true) {
       yield next_ham;
       for (base in queues) {queues[base].push(next_ham * base)}
       next_ham = [ queue[0] for each (queue in queues) ].reduce(function(min, val) {
           return Math.min(min,val)
       });
       for (base in queues) {if (queues[base][0] == next_ham) queues[base].shift()}
   }

}

var ham = hamming(); var first20=[], i=1;

for (; i <= 20; i++)

   first20.push(ham.next());

print(first20.join(', ')); print('...'); for (; i <= 1690; i++)

   ham.next();

print(i + " => " + ham.next());</lang>

Output:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36
...
1691 => 2125764000 

Fast & complete version

Translation of: C#

A translation of my fast C# version. I was curious to see how much slower JavaScript is. The result: it runs about 5x times slower than C#, though YMMV. You can try it yourself here: http://jsfiddle.net/N7AFN/

--Mike Lorenz

<lang javascript><html> <head></head> <body>

</body> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script> <script src="http://peterolson.github.com/BigInteger.js/BigInteger.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">

   var _primes = [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37];
   function log(text) {
       $('#main').append(text + "\n");
   }
   function big(exponents) {
       var i, e, val = bigInt.one;
       for (i = 0; i < exponents.length; i++)
           for (e = 0; e < exponents[i]; e++)
               val = val.times(_primes[i]);
       return val.toString();
   }
   function hamming(n, nprimes) {
       var i, iter, p, q, min, equal, x;
       var hammings = new Array(n);                            // array of hamming #s we generate
       hammings[0] = new Array(nprimes);
       for (p = 0; p < nprimes; p++) {
           hammings[0][p] = 0;
       }
       var hammlogs = new Array(n);                            // log values for above
       hammlogs[0] = 0;
       var primelogs = new Array(nprimes);                     // pre-calculated prime log values
       var listlogs  = new Array(nprimes);                     // log values of list heads
       for (p = 0; p < nprimes; p++) {
           primelogs[p] = listlogs[p] = Math.log(_primes[p]);
       }
       var indexes = new Array(nprimes);                       // intermediate hamming values as indexes into hammings
       for (p = 0; p < nprimes; p++) {
           indexes[p] = 0;
       }
       var listheads = new Array(nprimes);                     // intermediate hamming list heads
       for (p = 0; p < nprimes; p++) {
           listheads[p] = new Array(nprimes);
           for (q = 0; q < nprimes; q++) {
               listheads[p][q] = 0;
           }
           listheads[p][p] = 1;
       }
       for (iter = 1; iter < n; iter++) {
           min = 0;
           for (p = 1; p < nprimes; p++)
               if (listlogs[p] < listlogs[min])
                   min = p;
           hammlogs[iter] = listlogs[min];                     // that's the next hamming number
           hammings[iter] = listheads[min].slice();
           for (p = 0; p < nprimes; p++) {                     // update each list head if it matches new value
               equal = true;                                   // test each exponent to see if number matches
               for (i = 0; i < nprimes; i++) {
                   if (hammings[iter][i] != listheads[p][i]) {
                       equal = false;
                       break;
                   }
               }
               if (equal) {                                    // if it matches...
                   x = ++indexes[p];                           // set index to next hamming number
                   listheads[p] = hammings[x].slice();         // copy hamming number
                   listheads[p][p] += 1;                       // increment exponent = mult by prime
                   listlogs[p] = hammlogs[x] + primelogs[p];   // add log(prime) to log(value) = mult by prime
               }
           }
       }
       return hammings[n - 1];
   }
   $(document).ready(function() {
       var i, nprimes;
       var t = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,1691,1000000];
       for (nprimes = 3; nprimes <= 4; nprimes++) {
           var start = new Date();

log('

' + _primes[nprimes - 1] + '-Smooth:' + '

'); log('

'); for (i = 0; i < t.length; i++) log('' + '');
           var end = new Date();
log('' + ''); log('
' + t[i] + ':' + '' + big(hamming(t[i], nprimes)) + '
' + 'Elapsed time:' + '' + (end-start)/1000 + ' seconds' + '

');

       }
   });

</script> </html></lang>

Output:
5-Smooth:

1:		1
2:		2
3:		3
4:		4
5:		5
6:		6
7:		8
8:		9
9:		10
10:		12
11:		15
12:		16
13:		18
14:		20
15:		24
16:		25
17:		27
18:		30
19:		32
20:		36
1691:		2125764000
1000000:	519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Elapsed time:	1.73 seconds

7-Smooth:

1:		1
2:		2
3:		3
4:		4
5:		5
6:		6
7:		7
8:		8
9:		9
10:		10
11:		12
12:		14
13:		15
14:		16
15:		18
16:		20
17:		21
18:		24
19:		25
20:		27
1691:		3317760
1000000:	4157409948433216829957008507500000000
Elapsed time:	1.989 seconds

jq

Works with: jq version 1.4

We take the primary challenge here to be to write a Hamming number generator that can generate a given number of Hamming numbers, or the n-th Hamming number, without storing previously generated numbers.

To motivate a more complex version, in Part 1 of this section hamming(n) is defined as a generator of Hamming numbers, as numbers. This function uses an efficient algorithm and can run indefinitely, but it has one disadvantage: currently, jq converts large integers to floating point approximations, and thus precision is lost. For example, it reports the millionth Hamming number as 1.926511252902403e+44.

In Part 2, the algorithm in the first part is modified to use the [p,q,r] representation of Hamming numbers, where p, q, and r are the relevant exponents respectively of 2, 3, and 5.

The task description focuses on finding the n-th element of an infinite sequence and so it should be mentioned that using jq versions greater than 1.4, it would be possible to simply the generator so that is always unbounded, and then harness it with new builtins such as "limit" and "nth".

Hamming number generator

<lang jq># Return the index in the input array of the min_by(f) value def index_min_by(f):

 . as $in
 | if length == 0 then null
   else .[0] as $first
   | reduce range(0; length) as $i 
       ([0, $first, ($first|f)];   # state: [ix; min; f|min]
        ($in[$i]|f) as $v
        | if $v < .[2] then [ $i, $in[$i], $v ] else . end) 
   | .[0]
   end;
  1. Emit n Hamming numbers if n>0; the nth if n<0

def hamming(n):

 # input: [twos, threes, fives] of which at least one is assumed to be non-empty
 # output: the index of the array holding the min of the firsts
 def next: map( .[0] ) | index_min_by(.);
 # input: [value, [twos, threes, fives] ....]
 # ix is the index in [twos, threes, fives] of the array to be popped
 # output: [popped, updated_arrays ...]
 def pop(ix):
   .[1] as $triple
   | setpath([0];    $triple[ix][0])
   | setpath([1,ix]; $triple[ix][1:]);
 # input: [x, [twos, threes, fives], count]
 # push value*2 to twos, value*3 to threes, value*5 to fives and increment count
 def push(v):
   [.[0], [.[1][0] + [2*v], .[1][1] + [3*v], .[1][2] + [5*v]], .[2] + 1];
 # _hamming is the workhorse
 # input: [previous, [twos, threes, fives], count]
 def _hamming:
   .[0] as $previous
   | if (n > 0 and .[2] == n) or (n<0 and .[2] == -n) then $previous
     else (.[1]|next) as $ix     # $ix cannot be null
     | pop($ix)
     | .[0] as $next
     | (if $next == $previous then empty elif n>=0 then $previous else empty end), 
       (if $next == $previous then . else push($next) end | _hamming) 
     end;
 [1, [[2],[3],[5]], 1] | _hamming;

. as $n | hamming($n)</lang> Examples: <lang jq># First twenty: hamming(20)

  1. See elsewhere for output
  1. 1691st Hamming number:

hamming(-1691)

  1. => 2125764000
  1. Millionth:

hamming(-1000000)

  1. => 1.926511252902403e+44

</lang>

Hamming numbers as triples

In this section, Hamming numbers are represented as triples, [p,q,r], where p, q and r are the relevant powers of 2, 3, and 5 respectively. We therefore begin with some functions for managing Hamming numbers represented in this manner: <lang jq># The log (base e) of a Hamming triple: def ln_hamming:

 if length != 3 then error("ln_hamming: \(.)") else . end
 | (.[0] * (2|log)) + (.[1] * (3|log)) + (.[2] * (5|log));
  1. The numeric value of a Hamming triple:

def hamming_tof: ln_hamming | exp;

def hamming_toi:

 def pow(n): . as $in | reduce range(0;n) as $i (1; . * $in);
 . as $in | (2|pow($in[0])) * (3|pow($in[1])) * (5|pow($in[2]));
  1. Return the index in the input array of the min_by(f) value

def index_min_by(f):

 . as $in
 | if length == 0 then null
   else .[0] as $first
   | reduce range(0; length) as $i 
       ([0, $first, ($first|f)];   # state: [ix; min; f|min]
        ($in[$i]|f) as $v
        | if $v < .[2] then [ $i, $in[$i], $v ] else . end) 
   | .[0]
   end;
  1. Emit n Hamming numbers (as triples) if n>0; the nth if n<0; otherwise indefinitely.

def hamming(n):

 # n must be 2, 3 or 5
 def hamming_times(n): n as $n
   | if $n==2 then .[0] += 1 elif $n==3 then .[1] += 1 else .[2] += 1 end;
 # input: [twos, threes, fives] of which at least one is assumed to be non-empty
 # output: the index of the array holding the min of the firsts
 def next: map( .[0] ) | index_min_by( ln_hamming );
 # input: [value, [twos, threes, fives] ....]
 # ix is the index in [twos, threes, fives] of the array to be popped
 # output: [popped, updated_arrays ...]
 def pop(ix):
   .[1] as $triple
   | setpath([0];    $triple[ix][0])
   | setpath([1,ix]; $triple[ix][1:]);
 # input: [x, [twos, threes, fives], count]
 # push value*2 to twos, value*3 to threes, value*5 to fives and increment count
 def push(v):
   [.[0], [.[1][0] + [v|hamming_times(2)], .[1][1] + [v|hamming_times(3)],
           .[1][2] + [v|hamming_times(5)]], .[2] + 1];
 # _hamming is the workhorse
 # input: [previous, [twos, threes, fives], count]
 def _hamming:
   .[0] as $previous
   | if (n > 0 and .[2] == n) or (n<0 and .[2] == -n) then $previous
     else (.[1]|next) as $ix     # $ix cannot be null
     | pop($ix)
     | .[0] as $next
     | (if $next == $previous then empty elif n>=0 then $previous else empty end), 
       (if $next == $previous then . else push($next) end | _hamming) 
     end;
 [[0,0,0], [ 1,0,0 ,0,1,0, 0,0,1 ], 1] | _hamming;

</lang> Examples <lang jq># The first twenty Hamming numbers as integers: hamming(-20) | hamming_toi

  1. => (see elsewhere)
  1. 1691st as a Hamming triple:

hamming(-1691)

  1. => [5,12,3]
  1. The millionth:

hamming(-1000000)

  1. => [55,47,64]</lang>

Julia

The n parameter was chosen by trial and error. You have to pick an n large enough that the powers of 2, 3 and 5 will all be greater than n at the 1691st Hamming number.

<lang julia>n = 40

powers_2 = 2.^[0:n-1] powers_3 = 3.^[0:n-1] powers_5 = 5.^[0:n-1]

matrix = powers_2 * powers_3' powers_23 = sort(reshape(matrix,length(matrix),1),1)

matrix = powers_23 * powers_5' powers_235 = sort(reshape(matrix,length(matrix),1),1)

  1. Remove the integer overflow values.

powers_235 = powers_235[powers_235 .> 0]

println(powers_235[1:20]) println(powers_235[1691])</lang>

Kotlin

Translation of: Java

<lang kotlin>import java.math.BigInteger import java.util.PriorityQueue

val Three = BigInteger.valueOf(3) val Five = BigInteger.valueOf(5)

fun updateFrontier(x : BigInteger, pq : PriorityQueue<BigInteger>) {

   pq add(x shiftLeft(1))
   pq add(x multiply(Three))
   pq add(x multiply(Five))

}

fun hamming(n : Int) : BigInteger {

   val frontier = PriorityQueue<BigInteger>()
   updateFrontier(BigInteger.ONE, frontier)
   var lowest = BigInteger.ONE
   for (i in 1 .. n-1) {
       lowest = frontier.poll() ?: lowest
       while (frontier.peek() equals(lowest))
           frontier.poll()
       updateFrontier(lowest, frontier)
   }
   return lowest

}

fun main(args : Array<String>) {

   System.out print("Hamming(1 .. 20) =")
   for (i in 1 .. 20)
       System.out print(" ${hamming(i)}")
   System.out println("\nHamming(1691) = ${hamming(1691)}")
   System.out println("Hamming(1000000) = ${hamming(1000000)}")

}</lang>

Output:
Hamming(1 .. 20) = 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
Hamming(1691) = 2125764000
Hamming(1000000) = 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Overloaded function:

<lang scala>import java.math.BigInteger import java.util.PriorityQueue

val One = BigInteger.ONE val Three = BigInteger.valueOf(3) val Five = BigInteger.valueOf(5)

fun PriorityQueue<BigInteger>.update(x: BigInteger) : PriorityQueue<BigInteger> {

   add(x.shiftLeft(1))
   add(x.multiply(Three))
   add(x.multiply(Five))
   return this

}

fun hamming(n: Int): BigInteger {

   val frontier = PriorityQueue<BigInteger>().update(One)
   var lowest = One
   repeat(n - 1) {
       lowest = frontier.poll() ?: lowest
       while (frontier.peek() == lowest)
           frontier.poll()
       frontier.update(lowest)
   }
   return lowest

}

fun hamming(i : Iterable<Int>) : Iterable<BigInteger> = i.map { hamming(it) }

fun main(args: Array<String>) {

   val r = 1..20
   println("Hamming($r) = " + hamming(r))
   arrayOf(1691, 1000000).forEach { println("Hamming($it) = " + hamming(it)) }

}</lang>

Recursive function:

<lang scala>import java.math.BigInteger import java.util.PriorityQueue

val One = BigInteger.ONE val Three = BigInteger.valueOf(3) val Five = BigInteger.valueOf(5)

infix fun PriorityQueue<BigInteger>.update(x: BigInteger) : PriorityQueue<BigInteger> {

   add(x.shiftLeft(1))
   add(x.multiply(Three))
   add(x.multiply(Five))
   return this

}

fun hamming(a: Any?): Any = when (a) {

   is Number -> {
       val pq = PriorityQueue<BigInteger>() update One
       var lowest = One
       repeat(a.toInt() - 1) {
           lowest = pq.poll() ?: lowest
           while (pq.peek() == lowest) pq.poll()
           pq update lowest
       }
       lowest
   }
   is Iterable<*> -> a.map { hamming(it) }
   else -> throw IllegalArgumentException("cannot parse argument")

}

fun main(args: Array<String>) {

   arrayOf(1..20, 1691, 1000000).forEach { println("Hamming($it) = " + hamming(it)) }

}</lang>

Output:
Hamming(1..20) = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36]
Hamming(1691) = 2125764000
Hamming(1000000) = 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Functional Style Eliminating Duplicates, Optional Sequence Output

The following code implements a functional version, with the only mutable state that required to implement a recursive binding as commented in the code. It is fast because it uses non-genereric functions so that much of the boxing/unboxing can be optimized away, and it takes very little memory because of the avoiding duplicates, the order that the primes are processed with least dense first, and because it is implemented in such a way so as to use only local bindings for the heads of the lazy lists so that they can be consumed as used and garbage collected away. Kotlin does not have a lazy list like Haskell or a memoized lazy Stream like Scala, so the code implements a basic version of LazyList to be used by the algorithm (Java 8 Streams are not memoized as required here):

Translation of: scala

<lang kotlin>import java.math.BigInteger as BI

data class LazyList<T>(val head: T, val lztail: Lazy<LazyList<T>?>) { fun toSequence() = generateSequence(this) { it.lztail.value } .map { it.head } }

fun hamming(): LazyList<BI> { fun merge(s1: LazyList<BI>, s2: LazyList<BI>): LazyList<BI> { val s1v = s1.head; val s2v = s2.head if (s1v < s2v) { return LazyList(s1v, lazy({->merge(s1.lztail.value!!, s2)})) } else { return LazyList(s2v, lazy({->merge(s1, s2.lztail.value!!)})) } } fun llmult(m: BI, s: LazyList<BI>): LazyList<BI> { fun llmlt(ss: LazyList<BI>): LazyList<BI> { return LazyList(m * ss.head, lazy({->llmlt(ss.lztail.value!!)})) } return llmlt(s) } fun u(s: LazyList<BI>?, n: Long): LazyList<BI> { var r: LazyList<BI>? = null // mutable nullable so can do the below if (s == null) { // recursively referenced variables are ugly!!! r = llmult(BI.valueOf(n), LazyList(BI.valueOf(1), lazy{ -> r })) } else { // recursively referenced variables only work with lazy r = merge(s, llmult(BI.valueOf(n), // or a loop race limit LazyList(BI.valueOf(1), lazy{ -> r }))) } return r } val prms = arrayOf(5L, 3L, 2L) val thunk = {->prms.fold<Long,LazyList<BI>?>(null, {s, n -> u(s,n)})!!} return LazyList(BI.valueOf(1), lazy(thunk)) }

fun main(args: Array<String>) { tailrec fun nth(n: Int, h: LazyList<BI>): BI = if (n > 1) { nth(n - 1, h.lztail.value!!) } else { h.head } // non-generic faster: boxing optimized away println(hamming().toSequence().take(20).toList()) println(nth(1691, hamming())) val strt = System.currentTimeMillis() println(nth(1000000, hamming())) val stop = System.currentTimeMillis() println("Took ${stop - strt} milliseconds for the last.") }</lang>

Output:
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36]
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Took 381 milliseconds for the last.

Run on a AMD Bulldozer FX8120 3.1 GHz which is about half the speed as an equivalent Intel (but also half the price).

Liberty BASIC

LB has unlimited precision integers. <lang lb> dim h( 1000000)

for i =1 to 20

   print hamming( i); " ";

next i

print print "H( 1691)", hamming( 1691) print "H( 1000000)", hamming( 1000000)

end

function hamming( limit)

   h( 0) =1
   x2 =2: x3 =3: x5 =5
   i  =0: j  =0: k  =0
   for n =1 to limit
       h( n) = min( x2, min( x3, x5))
       if x2 = h( n) then i = i +1: x2 =2 *h( i)
       if x3 = h( n) then j = j +1: x3 =3 *h( j)
       if x5 = h( n) then k = k +1: x5 =5 *h( k)
   next n
   hamming =h( limit -1)

end function</lang>

1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
H( 1691)
2125764000
H( 1000000) 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

<lang logo>to init.ham

 ; queues
 make "twos   [1]
 make "threes [1]
 make "fives  [1]

end to next.ham

                         localmake "ham first :twos
 if less? first :threes :ham [make "ham first :threes]
 if less? first :fives  :ham [make "ham first :fives]
 if equal? :ham first :twos   [ignore dequeue "twos]
 if equal? :ham first :threes [ignore dequeue "threes]
 if equal? :ham first :fives  [ignore dequeue "fives]
 queue "twos   :ham * 2
 queue "threes :ham * 3
 queue "fives  :ham * 5
 output :ham

end

init.ham repeat 20 [print next.ham] repeat 1690-20 [ignore next.ham] print next.ham</lang>

Lua

<lang lua>function hiter()

 hammings = {1}
 prev, vals = {1, 1, 1}
 index = 1
 local function nextv()
   local n, v = 1, hammings[prev[1]]*2

if hammings[prev[2]]*3 < v then n, v = 2, hammings[prev[2]]*3 end if hammings[prev[3]]*5 < v then n, v = 3, hammings[prev[3]]*5 end prev[n] = prev[n] + 1 if hammings[index] == v then return nextv() end index = index + 1 hammings[index] = v return v

 end
 return nextv

end

j = hiter() for i = 1, 20 do

 print(j())

end n, l = 0, 0 while n < 2^31 do n, l = j(), n end print(l)</lang>

Mathematica / Wolfram Language

<lang mathematica>HammingList[N_] := Module[{A, B, C}, {A, B, C} = (N^(1/3))*{2.8054745679851933, 1.7700573778298891, 1.2082521307023026} - {1, 1, 1};

Take[ Sort@Flatten@Table[ 2^x * 3^y * 5^z , 

{x, 0, A}, {y, 0, (-B/A)*x + B}, {z, 0, C - (C/A)*x - (C/B)*y}], N]];</lang>

HammingList[20]
-> {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36}
HammingList[1691] // Last
-> 2125764000
HammingList[1000000] // Last
->519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

MATLAB / Octave

Translation of: Julia

The n parameter was chosen by trial and error. You have to pick an n large enough that the powers of 2, 3 and 5 will all be greater than n at the 1691st Hamming number.

<lang Matlab>n = 40;

powers_2 = 2.^[0:n-1]; powers_3 = 3.^[0:n-1]; powers_5 = 5.^[0:n-1];

matrix = powers_2' * powers_3; powers_23 = sort(reshape(matrix,n*n,1));


matrix = powers_23 * powers_5; powers_235 = sort(reshape(matrix,n*n*n,1));

% % Remove the integer overflow values. % powers_235 = powers_235(powers_235 > 0);

disp(powers_235(1:20)) disp(powers_235(1691))</lang>

MUMPS

<lang MUMPS>Hamming(n) New count,ok,next,number,which For which=2,3,5 Set number=1 For count=1:1:n Do . Set ok=0 Set:count<21 ok=1 Set:count=1691 ok=1 Set:count=n ok=1 . Write:ok !,$Justify(count,5),": ",number . For which=2,3,5 Set next(number*which)=which . Set number=$Order(next("")) . Kill next(number) . Quit Quit Do Hamming(2000)

   1: 1
   2: 2
   3: 3
   4: 4
   5: 5
   6: 6
   7: 8
   8: 9
   9: 10
  10: 12
  11: 15
  12: 16
  13: 18
  14: 20
  15: 24
  16: 25
  17: 27
  18: 30
  19: 32
  20: 36
1691: 2125764000
2000: 8062156800</lang>

Nim

Library: bigints

Classic Dijkstra algorithm: <lang nim>import bigints, math

proc hamming(limit: int): BigInt =

 var
   h = newSeq[BigInt](limit)
   x2 = initBigInt(2)
   x3 = initBigInt(3)
   x5 = initBigInt(5)
   i, j, k = 0
 for i in 0..h.high: h[i] = initBigInt(1)
 for n in 1 .. < limit:
   h[n] = min(x2, x3, x5)
   if x2 == h[n]:
     inc i
     x2 = h[i] * 2
   if x3 == h[n]:
     inc j
     x3 = h[j] * 3
   if x5 == h[n]:
     inc k
     x5 = h[k] * 5
 result = h[h.high]

for i in 1 .. 20:

 write stdout, hamming(i), " "

echo "" echo hamming(1691) echo hamming(1_000_000)</lang>

Output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

The above takes over a second to produce the millionth Hamming number on many machines.

Slightly more efficient version

The following code improves on the above by reducing the number of computationally-time-expensive BigInt comparisions slightly: <lang nim>import bigints, times

proc hamming(limit: int): BigInt =

 doAssert limit > 0
 var
   h = newSeq[BigInt](limit)
   x2 = initBigInt(2)
   x3 = initBigInt(3)
   x5 = initBigInt(5)
   i, j, k = 0
 h[0] = initBigInt 1
 # BigInt comparisons are expensive, reduce them...
 proc min3(x, y, z: BigInt): (int, BigInt) =
   let (cs, r1) = if y == z: (0x6, y)
                  elif y < z: (2, y) else: (4, z)
   if x == r1: (cs or 1, x)
   elif x < r1: (1, x) else: (cs, r1)
 for n in 1 .. < limit:
   let (cs, e1) = min3(x2, x3, x5)
   h[n] = e1
   if (cs and 1) != 0: i += 1; x2 = h[i] * 2
   if (cs and 2) != 0: j += 1; x3 = h[j] * 3
   if (cs and 4) != 0: k += 1; x5 = h[k] * 5
 
 h[h.high]

for i in 1 .. 20:

 write stdout, hamming(i), " "

echo "" echo hamming(1691)

let strt = epochTime() let rslt = hamming(1_000_000) let stop = epochTime()

echo rslt echo "This last took ", (stop - strt)*1000, " milliseconds."</lang>

Output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
This last took 899.1901874542236 milliseconds.

It can be shown that the above reduces the execution time by about 20 per cent.

Functional iterator sequence, eliminating duplicate calculations and reducing memory use

The above code still wastes quite a lot of time doing redundant BigInt calculations (ie. 2 times 3, 3 times 2, etc.) and as well consumes a huge amount of memory for larger Hamming number determination as it uses an array as large as the range. The below code eliminates duplicate calculations and reduces memory use by using a Nim version of a lazy list internally so that unused back calculated values can be eliminated by the garbage collector. Thus, execution time for BigInt calculations is reduced by a constant factor of about two and a half and memory use is reduced from O(n) to O(n^(2/3)) in the following code:

Translation of: Haskell

<lang nim>import bigints, math, sequtils, algorithm, times

iterator func_hamming() : BigInt =

 type Thunk[T] = proc(): T {.closure.}
 type Lazy[T] = ref object of RootObj # tuple[val: T, thnk: Thunk[T]]
   val: T
   thnk: Thunk[T]
 proc force[T](me: var Lazy[T]): T = # not thread-safe; needs lock on thunk
   if me.thnk != nil: me.val = me.thnk(); me.thnk = nil
   me.val
 type LazyList[T] = ref object of RootObj # tuple[hd: T, tl: Lazy[LazyList[T]]]
   hd: T
   tl: Lazy[LazyList[T]]
 type Mytype = LazyList[BigInt]
 proc merge(x, y: Mytype): Mytype =
   let xh = x.hd; let yh = y.hd
   if xh < yh:
     let mthnk = proc(): Mytype = merge x.tl.force, y
     let mlzy = Lazy[Mytype](thnk: mthnk)
     Mytype(hd: xh, tl: mlzy)
   else:
     let mthnk = proc(): Mytype = merge x, y.tl.force
     let mlzy = Lazy[Mytype](thnk: mthnk)
     Mytype(hd: yh, tl: mlzy)
 proc smult(m: int32, s: Mytype): Mytype =
   proc smults(ss: Mytype): Mytype =
     let mthnk = proc(): Mytype = ss.tl.force.smults
     let mlzy = Lazy[Mytype](thnk: mthnk)
     Mytype(hd: ss.hd * m, tl: mlzy)
   s.smults
 proc u(s: Mytype, n: int32): Mytype =
   var r: Mytype
   let mthnk = proc(): Mytype = r
   let mlzy = Lazy[Mytype](thnk: mthnk)
   let frst = Mytype(hd: initBigInt 1, tl: mlzy)
   if s == nil: r = smult(n, frst) else: r = merge(s, smult(n, frst))
   r
 var hmg: Mytype = nil
 for p in [5i32, 3i32, 2i32]: hmg = u(hmg, p)
 yield initBigInt 1
 while true: # loop almost forever
   yield initBigInt hmg.hd
   hmg = hmg.tl.force

var cnt = 1 for h in func_hamming():

 if cnt > 20: break
 write stdout, h, " "; cnt += 1

echo "" cnt = 1 for h in func_hamming():

 if cnt < 1691: cnt += 1; continue
 else: echo h; break

let strt = epochTime() var rslt: BigInt cnt = 1 for h in func_hamming():

 if cnt < 1000000: cnt += 1; continue
 else: rslt = h; break

let stop = epochTime()

echo rslt echo "This last took ", (stop - strt)*1000, " milliseconds."</lang>

Output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
This last took 1218.756675720215 milliseconds.

The output is the same as above except that time is about 1219 millications: even though there are many less calculations, the time required is not reduced at all and even increased. This means that the current Nim memory allocation/deallocation (garbage collection) is not that efficient for the required many small allocations/deallocations as compared to truly great ones such as that used by Haskell or the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), but it isn't that bad either as compared to say the DotNet Framework one.

The beauty of Nim inline iterators as used here is that they are zero overhead (tested) so there is no run time penalty for using them.

Imperative iterator implementation of the above functional version

The above claims with respect to the inefficiency of Nim's memory allocation can be proven by the following code which uses imperative techniques to implement the same algorithm, using sequences for storage, indexes for back pointers to the results of previous calculations, and custom deleting unused values in chunks in place (using constantly growing capacity) so that the same size of sequence can be longer used and many less new memory allocations need be made:

<lang nim>import bigints, math, sequtils, times

iterator nodups_hamming(): BigInt =

 var
   m = newSeq[BigInt](1) # give it two values so doubling size works
   h = newSeq[BigInt](1) # reasonably size
   x5 = initBigInt 5
   mrg = initBigInt 3
   x53 = initBigInt 9 # already advanced one step
   x532 = initBigInt 2
   ih, jm, i, j = 0
 yield initBigInt 1 # trivial case of 1
 while true:
   let cph = h.len # move in-place to avoid allocation
   if i >= cph div 2: # move in-place to avoid allocation
     var s = i; var d = 0
     while s < ih: shallowCopy(h[d], h[s]); s += 1; d += 1
     ih -= i; i = 0
   if i >= cph div 2: moveMem(h[0].unsafeAddr,
                              h[i].unsafeAddr,
                              (ih - i) * h[i].sizeof); ih -= i; i = 0
   if ih >= cph: h.setLen(2 * cph)
   if x532 < mrg: h[ih] = x532; x532 = h[i] * 2; i += 1
   else:
     h[ih] = mrg
     let cpm = m.len
     if j >= cpm div 2: # move in-place to avoid allocation
       var s = j; var d = 0
       while s < jm: shallowCopy(m[d], m[s]); s += 1; d += 1
       jm -= j; j = 0
     if jm >= cpm: m.setLen(2 * cpm)
     if x53 < x5: mrg = x53; x53 = m[j] * 3; j += 1
     else: mrg = x5; x5 = x5 * 5
     m[jm] = mrg
     jm += 1
   ih += 1
 
   yield h[ih - 1]</lang>

The iterator can be used just by substituting it's name for the previous iterator name in the above output functions.

The output is the same except for the time reduced to 562 milliseconds, which shows that a high percentage of the previous time was not used by BigInt calculations (as this code does exactly the same number of calculations) but rather by the memory allocatons/deallocations required for pure functional lazy algorithms. This may show that the current Nim version (0.14.2) is not so suitable for pure lazy functional algorithms, nor is it as terse as many modern functional languages (Haskell, OcaML, F#, Scala, etc.).

Much faster iterating version using logarithmic calculations

Still, much of the above time is used by BigInt calculations and still many heap allocations/deallocations, as BigInt's have an internal sequence to contain the infinite precision binary digits. The following code uses an internal logarithmic representation of the values rather than BigInt and thus all mathematic operations required are just integer and floating point additions and comparison; as well, since these don't require heap space there is almost no allocation/deallocation at all for greatly increased speed:

<lang nim>import bigints, math, sequtils, times

proc convertTrival2BigInt(tpl: (uint32, uint32, uint32)): BigInt =

 result = initBigInt 1
 let (x, y, z) = tpl
 for _ in 1 .. x: result *= 2
 for _ in 1 .. y: result *= 3
 for _ in 1 .. z: result *= 5

iterator log_nodups_hamming(): (uint32, uint32, uint32) =

 let lb3 = 3.0f64.log2; let lb5 = 5.0f64.log2
 type Logrep = (float64, (uint32, uint32, uint32))
 proc `<`(me: Logrep, othr: Logrep): bool =
   let (lme, _) = me; let (lothr, _) = othr
   lme < lothr
 proc mul2(me: Logrep): Logrep =
   let (lr, tpl) = me; let (x2, x3, x5) = tpl
   (lr + 1.0f64, (x2 + 1, x3, x5))
 proc mul3(me: Logrep): Logrep =
   let (lr, tpl) = me; let (x2, x3, x5) = tpl
   (lr + lb3, (x2, x3 + 1, x5))
 proc mul5(me: Logrep): Logrep =
   let (lr, tpl) = me; let (x2, x3, x5) = tpl
   (lr + lb5, (x2, x3, x5 + 1))
 let one: Logrep = (0.0f64, (0u32, 0u32, 0u32))
 var
   m = newSeq[Logrep](1) # give it two values so doubling size works
   h = newSeq[Logrep](1) # reasonably size
   x5 = one.mul5 # initBigInt 5
   mrg = one.mul3 # initBigInt 3
   x53 = one.mul3().mul3 # initBigInt 9 # already advanced one step
   x532 = one.mul2 # initBigInt 2
   ih, jm, i, j = 0
 yield (0u32, 0u32, 0u32)
 while true:
   let cph = h.len # move in-place to avoid allocation
   if i >= cph div 2: # move in-place to avoid allocation
     var s = i; var d = 0
     while s < ih: shallowCopy(h[d], h[s]); s += 1; d += 1
     ih -= i; i = 0
   if ih >= cph: h.setLen(2 * cph)
   if x532 < mrg: h[ih] = x532; x532 = h[i].mul2; i += 1
   else:
     h[ih] = mrg
     let cpm = m.len
     if j >= cpm div 2: # move in-place to avoid allocation
       var s = j; var d = 0
       while s < jm: shallowCopy(m[d], m[s]); s += 1; d += 1
       jm -= j; j = 0
     if jm >= cpm: m.setLen(2 * cpm)
     if x53 < x5: mrg = x53; x53 = m[j].mul3; j += 1
     else: mrg = x5; x5 = x5.mul5
     m[jm] = mrg
     jm += 1
   ih += 1
 
   let (_, rslt) = h[ih - 1]
   yield rslt

var cnt = 1 for h in log_nodups_hamming():

 if cnt > 20: break
 write stdout, h.convertTrival2BigInt, " "; cnt += 1

echo "" cnt = 1 for h in log_nodups_hamming():

 if cnt < 1691: cnt += 1; continue
 else: echo h.convertTrival2BigInt; break

let strt = epochTime() var rslt: (uint32, uint32, uint32) cnt = 1 for h in log_nodups_hamming():

 if cnt < 1000000: cnt += 1; continue
 else: rslt = h; break # """

let stop = epochTime()

let (x2, x3, x5) = rslt writeLine stdout, "2^", x2, " + 3^", x3, " + 5^", x5 let lgrslt = (x2.float64 + x3.float64 * 3.0f64.log2 +

              x5.float64 * 5.0f64.log2) * 2.0f64.log10

let (whl, frac) = lgrslt.splitDecimal echo "Approximately: ", 10.0f64.pow(frac), "E+", whl.uint64 let brslt = rslt.convertTrival2BigInt() let s = brslt.to_string let ls = s.len echo "Number of digits: ", ls if ls <= 2000:

 for i in countup(0, ls - 1, 100):
   if i + 100 < ls: echo s[i .. i + 99]
   else: echo s[i .. ls - 1]

echo "This last took ", (stop - strt)*1000, " milliseconds."</lang>

Output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
2125764000

2^55 + 3^47 + 5^64
Approximately:  5.193127804483804E+83
Number of digits:  84
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
This last took 15.62285423278809 milliseconds.

The output is about the same except that it only takes about 15.6 milliseconds to calculate the millionth Hamming number; the billionth can be calculated in about 15 seconds.

Extremely fast version inserting logarithms into the top error band

The above code is about as fast as one can go generating sequences; however, if one is willing to forego sequences and just calculate the nth Hamming number (again), then some reading on the relationship between the size of numbers to the sequence numbers is helpful (Wikipedia: regular number). One finds that there is a very distinct relationship and that it quite quickly reduces to quite a small error band proportional to the log of the output value for larger ranges. Thus, the following code just scans for logarithmic representations to insert into a sequence for this top error band and extracts the correct nth representation from that band. It reduces time complexity to O(n^(2/3)) from O(n) for the sequence versions, but even more amazingly, reduces memory requirements to O(n^(1/3)) from O(n^(2/3)) and thus makes it possible to calculate very large values in the sequence on common personal computers. The code is as follows:

Translation of: Rust

<lang nim>import bigints, math, sequtils, algorithm, times

proc convertTrival2BigInt(tpl: (uint32, uint32, uint32)): BigInt =

 result = initBigInt 1
 let (x, y, z) = tpl
 for _ in 1 .. x: result *= 2
 for _ in 1 .. y: result *= 3
 for _ in 1 .. z: result *= 5

proc nth_hamming(n: uint64): (uint32, uint32, uint32) =

 doAssert n > 0u64
 if n < 2: return (0u32, 0u32, 0u32) # trivial case for 1
 type Logrep = (float64, (uint32, uint32, uint32))
 let
   lb3 = 3.0f64.log2
   lb5 = 5.0f64.log2
   fctr = 6.0f64 * lb3 * lb5
   crctn = 30.0f64.sqrt().log2 # log base 2 of sqrt 30
   lgest = (fctr * n.float64).pow(1.0f64/3.0f64) - crctn # from WP formula
   frctn = if n < 1000000000: 0.509f64 else: 0.105f64
   lghi = (fctr * (n.float64 + frctn * lgest)).pow(1.0f64/3.0f64) - crctn
   lglo = 2.0f64 * lgest - lghi # and a lower limit of the upper "band"
 var count = 0u64 # need to use extended precision, might go over
 var bnd = newSeq[Logrep](1) # give itone value so doubling size works
 let klmt = uint32(lghi / lb5) + 1
 for k in 0 .. < klmt: # i, j, k values can be just u32 values
   let p = k.float64 * lb5
   let jlmt = uint32((lghi - p) / lb3) + 1
   for j in 0 .. < jlmt:
     let q = p + j.float64 * lb3
     let ir = lghi - q
     let lg = q + ir.floor # current log value (estimated)
     count += ir.uint64 + 1;
     if lg >= lglo:
       bnd.add((lg, (ir.uint32, j, k)))
 if n > count: raise newException(Exception, "nth_hamming: band high estimate is too low!")
 let ndx = (count - n).int
 if ndx >= bnd.len: raise newException(Exception, "nth_hamming: band low estimate is too high!")
 bnd.sort((proc (a, b: Logrep): int = # sort decreasing order
   let (la, _) = a; let (lb, _) = b
   la.cmp lb), SortOrder.Descending)

 let (_, rslt) = bnd[ndx]
 rslt

for _ in 1 .. 20:

 write stdout, nth_hamming(i.uint64).convertTrival2BigInt, " "

echo "" echo nth_hamming(1691).convertTrival2BigInt

let strt = epochTime() let rslt = nth_hamming(1_000_000u64) let stop = epochTime()

let (x2, x3, x5) = rslt writeLine stdout, "2^", x2, " + 3^", x3, " + 5^", x5 let lgrslt = (x2.float64 + x3.float64 * 3.0f64.log2 +

              x5.float64 * 5.0f64.log2) * 2.0f64.log10

let (whl, frac) = lgrslt.splitDecimal echo "Approximately: ", 10.0f64.pow(frac), "E+", whl.uint64 let brslt = rslt.convertTrival2BigInt() let s = brslt.to_string let ls = s.len echo "Number of digits: ", ls if ls <= 2000:

 for i in countup(0, ls - 1, 100):
   if i + 100 < ls: echo s[i .. i + 99]
   else: echo s[i .. ls - 1]

echo "This last took ", (stop - strt)*1000, " milliseconds."</lang>

The output is the same as above except that the time is too small to be measured. The billionth number in the sequence can be calculated in just about 15 milliseconds, the trillionth in about 1.5 seconds, the thousand trillionth in about 150 seconds, and it should be possible to calculate the 10^19th value in less than a day (untested) on common personal computers. The (2^64 - 1)th value (18446744073709551615) cannot be calculated due to a slight overflow problem as it approaches that limit.

OCaml

A simple implementation using an integer Set as a priority queue. The semantics of the standard library Set provide a minimum element and prevent duplicate entries. min_elt and add are O(log N).

<lang OCaml>module ISet = Set.Make(struct type t = int let compare=compare end)

let pq = ref (ISet.singleton 1)

let next () =

 let m = ISet.min_elt !pq in
 pq := ISet.(remove m !pq  |> add (2*m) |> add (3*m) |> add (5*m));
 m

let () =

 print_string "The first 20 are: ";
 for i = 1 to 20
 do
   Printf.printf "%d " (next ())
 done;
 for i = 21 to 1690
 do
   ignore (next ())
 done;
 Printf.printf "\nThe 1691st is %d\n" (next ());</lang>

Output:

The first 20 are: 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36

The 1691st is 2125764000

Arbitrary precision

An arbitrary precision version for the one millionth number. Compile with eg: ocamlopt -o hamming.exe nums.cmxa hamming.ml <lang OCaml>open Big_int

module APSet = Set.Make(

 struct
   type t = big_int
   let compare = compare_big_int
 end)

let pq = ref (APSet.singleton (big_int_of_int 1))

let next () =

 let m = APSet.min_elt !pq in
 let ( * ) = mult_int_big_int in
 pq := APSet.(remove m !pq  |> add (2*m) |> add (3*m) |> add (5*m));
 m

let () =

 let n = 1_000_000 in
 for i = 1 to (n-1)
 do
   ignore (next ())
 done;
 Printf.printf "\nThe %dth is %s\n" n (string_of_big_int (next ()));</lang>

Output:

The 1000000th is 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Oz

Lazy Version

Translation of: Haskell

<lang oz>declare

 fun lazy {HammingFun}
    1|{FoldL1 [{MultHamming 2} {MultHamming 3} {MultHamming 5}] LMerge}
 end
 Hamming = {HammingFun}
 fun {MultHamming N}
    {LMap Hamming fun {$ X} N*X end}
 end
 fun lazy {LMap Xs F}
    case Xs
    of nil  then nil
    [] X|Xr then {F X}|{LMap Xr F}
    end
 end
 fun lazy {LMerge Xs=X|Xr Ys=Y|Yr}
    if     X < Y then X|{LMerge Xr Ys}
    elseif X > Y then Y|{LMerge Xs Yr}
    else              X|{LMerge Xr Yr}
    end
 end
 fun {FoldL1 X|Xr F}
    {FoldL Xr F X}
 end

in

 {ForAll {List.take Hamming 20} System.showInfo}
 {System.showInfo {Nth Hamming 1690}}
 {System.showInfo {Nth Hamming 1000000}}</lang>


Strict Version

The strict version uses iterators and a priority queue. Note that it can calculate other variations of the hamming numbers too. By changing K, it will calculate the p(K)-smooth numbers. (E.g. K = 3, it will use the first three primes 2,3 and 5, thus resulting in the 5-smooth numbers, see [2]) <lang oz> functor import Application System define

class Multiplier attr lst factor current

meth init(Factor Lst) lst := Lst factor := Factor {self next} end meth next local A AS in A|AS = @lst current := A*@factor lst := AS end end meth peek(?X) X = @current end

meth dump {System.showInfo "DUMP"} {System.showInfo "Factor: "#@factor} {System.showInfo "current: "#@current} end end

% a priority queue of multipliers. The one which currently holds the smallest value is put on front class PriorityQueue attr mults current % for duplicate detection

meth init(Mults) mults := Mults current := 0 end

meth insert(Mult) local fun {Insert M Lst} local Av Mv in case Lst of nil then M|Lst [] A|AS then {A peek(Av)} {M peek(Mv)} if Av < Mv then A|{Insert M AS} else M|A|AS end end end end in mults := {Insert Mult @mults} end end

meth next(Tail NextTail) local M Ms X Curr in M|Ms = @mults {M peek(X)} % gets value of lowest iterator Curr = @current if Curr == X then skip else Tail = X|NextTail % if we found a new value: append end {M next} mults := Ms {self insert(M)} if Curr == X then {self next(Tail NextTail)} else current := X end end end

end


local

% Sieve of erasthothenes, adapted from http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes#Oz fun {Sieve N} S = {Array.new 2 N true} M = {Float.toInt {Sqrt {Int.toFloat N}}} in for I in 2..M do if S.I then for J in I*I..N;I do S.J := false end end end S end

fun {Primes N} S = {Sieve N} in for I in 2..N collect:C do if S.I then {C I} end end end


% help method to extract args proc {GetNK ArgList N K} case ArgList of A|B|_ then N={StringToInt A} K={StringToInt B} end end


proc {Generate N PriorQ Tail} local NewTail in if N == 0 then Tail = nil else {PriorQ next(Tail NewTail)} {Generate (N-1) PriorQ NewTail} end end end

K = 3 PrimeFactors Lst Tail in ArgList = {Application.getArgs plain} Lst = 1|Tail PrimeFactors = {List.take {Primes K*K} K} Mults = {List.map PrimeFactors fun {$ A} {New Multiplier init(A Lst) } end} PriorQ = {New PriorityQueue init(Mults)} {Generate 20 PriorQ Tail} {ForAll Lst System.showInfo} {Application.exit 0} end end </lang> Strict version made by pietervdvn; do what you want with the code.

PARI/GP

This is a basic implementation; finding the millionth term requires 1 second and 54 MB. Much better algorithms exist. <lang parigp>Hupto(n)={

 my(v=vector(n),x2=2,x3=3,x5=5,i=1,j=1,k=1,t);
 v[1]=1;
 for(m=2,n,
   v[m]=t=min(x2,min(x3,x5));
   if(x2 == t, x2 = v[i++] << 1);
   if(x3 == t, x3 = 3 * v[j++]);
   if(x5 == t, x5 = 5 * v[k++]);
 );
 v

}; H(n)=Hupto(n)[n];

Hupto(20) H(1691) H(10^6)</lang>

Output:
%1 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36]
%2 = 2125764000
%3 = 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Pascal

Simple brute force til 2^32-1.I was astonished by the speed.The inner loop is taken 2^32 -1 times.DIV by constant is optimized to Mul and shift. Using FPC_64 3.1.1, i4330 3.5 Ghz <lang pascal> program HammNumb; {$IFDEF FPC}

 {$MODE DELPHI}
 {$OPTIMIZATION ON}

{$ELSE}

 {$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

{$ENDIF} { type

 NativeUInt = longWord;

} var

 pot   : array[0..2] of NativeUInt;

function NextHammNumb(n:NativeUInt):NativeUInt; var

 q,p,nr : NativeUInt;

begin

 repeat
   nr := n+1;
   n := nr;
   p := 0;
   while NOT(ODD(nr)) do
   begin
     inc(p);
     nr := nr div 2;
   end;
   Pot[0]:= p;
   p := 0;
   q := nr div 3;
   while q*3=nr do
   Begin
     inc(P);
     nr := q;
     q := nr div 3;
   end;
   Pot[1] := p;
   p := 0;
   q := nr div 5;
   while q*5=nr do
   Begin
     inc(P);
     nr := q;
     q := nr div 5;
   end;
   Pot[2] := p;
 until nr = 1;
 result:= n;

end;

procedure Check; var

 i,n: NativeUint;

begin

 n := 1;
 for i := 1 to 20 do
 begin
   n := NextHammNumb(n);
   write(n,' ');
 end;
 writeln;
 writeln;
 n := 1;
 for i := 1 to 1690 do
   n := NextHammNumb(n);
 writeln('No ',i:4,' | ',n,' = 2^',Pot[0],' 3^',Pot[1],' 5^',Pot[2]);

end;

Begin

 Check;

End.</lang> Output

2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36 40 

No 1690 | 2125764000 = 2^5 3^12 5^3

real    0m17.328s
user    0m17.310s

a fast alternative

The Pascal code above is by far slower.Easily to use for smooth-3 .. smooth-37.

Big(O) is nearly linear to sub-linear . 1E7-> 0.028s => x10 =>1e8 ->0.273s => x1000 => 100'200'300'400 ~ 1e11 35.907s // estimated 270 s! This depends extreme on sorting speed.

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hamming_numbers#Direct_calculation_through_triples_enumeration is head to head, but still faster for very big numbers >1e8 (10^8: 4 MB 0.27 sec)

100'200'300'400 calculates in 8.33 s

For fpc 3.1.1_64 linux on 3.5 Ghz i4330, depends on 64-Bit by a factor of 4 slower on 32-Bit

/* For 12 primes "smooth-37" 1e8 it takes 02.807 s */

I collect only the factors between p^n and p^(n+1), in a recursive way in different lists

5 is a list consisting only 5^? = 1 factor

3 is a sorted list 3^?..3^?+1 and inserted values of 5

2 is a sorted list 2^?..2^?+1 and inserted values of list 3

Changing sizeOf(tElem) to 32 {maxPrimFakCnt = 3+8} instead of 16 ( x2) {maxPrimFakCnt = 3} results in increasing the runtime by x4 ( 2^2 )

<lang pascal>program hammNumb; {$IFDEF FPC}

  {$MODE DELPHI}
  {$OPTIMIZATION ON,ASMCSE,CSE,PEEPHOLE}
  {$ALIGN 16}

{$ELSE}

 {$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

{$ENDIF} uses

 sysutils;

const

 maxPrimFakCnt = 3;//3 or 3+8 if tNumber= double, else -1 for extended to keep data aligned
 minElemCnt = 10;

type

 tPrimList = array of NativeUint;
 tnumber = double;
 tpNumber= ^tnumber;
 tElem = record
            n   : tnumber;//ln(prime[0]^Pots[0]*...
            Pots: array[0..maxPrimFakCnt] of word;
          end;
 tpElem  = ^tElem;
 tElems  = array of tElem;
 tElemArr  = array [0..0] of tElem;
 tpElemArr  = ^tElemArr;
 tpFaktorRec = ^tFaktorRec;
 tFaktorRec = record
                frElems  : tElems;
                frInsElems: tElems;
                frAktIdx : NativeUint;
                frMaxIdx : NativeUint;
                frPotNo  : NativeUint;
                frActPot : NativeUint;
                frNextFr : tpFaktorRec;
                frActNumb: tElem;
                frLnPrime: tnumber;
              end;
 tArrFR = array of tFaktorRec;

var

 Pl : tPrimList;
 ActIndex  : NativeUint;
 ArrInsert : tElems;

procedure PlInit(n: integer); const

cPl : array[0..11] of byte=(2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37);

var

 i : integer;

Begin

 IF n>High(cPl)+1 then
    n := High(cPl)
 else
     IF n < 0 then
        n := 1;
 setlength(Pl,n);
 dec(n);
 For i := 0 to n do
   Pl[i] := cPl[i];

end;

procedure AusgabeElem(pElem: tElem); var

 i : integer;

Begin

 with pElem do
 Begin
   IF n < 23 then
     write(round(exp(n)):16)
   else
     write('ln ',n:13:7);
   For i := 0 to maxPrimFakCnt do
     write(' ',PL[i]:2,'^',Pots[i]);
 end;
 writeln

end;

//LoE == List of Elements function LoEGetNextNumber(pFR :tpFaktorRec):tElem;forward;

procedure LoECreate(const Pl: tPrimList;var FA:tArrFR); var

 i : integer;

Begin

 setlength(ArrInsert,100);
 setlength(FA,Length(PL));
 For i := 0 to High(PL) do
   with FA[i] do
   Begin
     //automatic zeroing
     IF i < High(PL) then
     Begin
       setlength(frElems,minElemCnt);
       setlength(frInsElems,minElemCnt);
       frNextFr := @FA[i+1]
     end
     else
     Begin
       setlength(frElems,2);
       setlength(frInsElems,0);
       frNextFr := NIL;
     end;
     frPotNo  := i;
     frLnPrime:= ln(PL[i]);
     frMaxIdx := 0;
     frAktIdx := 0;
     frActPot := 1;
     With frElems[0] do
     Begin
       n := frLnPrime;
       Pots[i]:= 1;
     end;
     frActNumb := frElems[0];
 end;

end;


procedure LoEFree(var FA:tArrFR); var

 i : integer;

Begin

 For i := High(FA) downto Low(FA) do
   setlength(FA[i].frElems,0);
 setLength(FA,0);

end;

function LoEGetActElem(pFr:tpFaktorRec):tElem; Begin

 with pFr^ do
   result := frElems[frAktIdx];

end;

function LoEGetActLstNumber(pFr:tpFaktorRec):tpNumber; Begin

 with pFr^ do
   result := @frElems[frAktIdx].n;

end;

procedure LoEIncInsArr(var a:tElems); Begin

 setlength(a,Length(a)*8 div 5);

end;

procedure LoEIncreaseElems(pFr:tpFaktorRec;minCnt:NativeUint); var

 newLen: NativeUint;

Begin

 with pFR^ do
 begin
   newLen := Length(frElems);
   minCnt := minCnt+frMaxIdx;
   repeat
     newLen := newLen*8 div 5 +1;
   until newLen > minCnt;
   setlength(frElems,newLen);
 end;

end;

procedure LoEInsertNext(pFr:tpFaktorRec;Limit:tnumber); var

 pNum : tpNumber;
 pElems : tpElemArr;
 cnt,i,u : NativeInt;

begin

 with pFr^ do
 Begin
   //collect numbers of heigher primes
   cnt := 0;
   pNum := LoEGetActLstNumber(frNextFr);
   while Limit > pNum^ do
   Begin
     frInsElems[cnt] := LoEGetNextNumber(frNextFr);

// writeln( 'Ins ',frInsElems[cnt].n:10:8,' < ',pNum^:10:8);

     inc(cnt);
     IF cnt > High(frInsElems) then
       LoEIncInsArr(frInsElems);
     pNum := LoEGetActLstNumber(frNextFr);
   end;
   if cnt = 0 then
    EXIT;
   i := frMaxIdx;
   u := frMaxIdx+cnt+1;
   IF u > High(frElems) then
     LoEIncreaseElems(pFr,cnt);
   IF frPotNo =  0 then
     inc(ActIndex,u);
   //Merge
   pElems := @frElems[0];
   dec(cnt);
   dec(u);
   frMaxIdx:= u;
   repeat

// writeln(i:10,cnt:10,u:10); writeln( pElems^[i].n:10:8,' < ',frInsElems[cnt].n:10:8);

     IF pElems^[i].n < frInsElems[cnt].n then
     Begin
       pElems^[u] := frInsElems[cnt];
       dec(cnt);
     end
     else
     Begin
       pElems^[u] := pElems^[i];
       dec(i);
     end;
     dec(u);
   until (i<0) or (cnt<0);
   IF i < 0 then
     For u := cnt downto 0 do
       pElems^[u] := frInsElems[u];
 end;

end;

procedure LoEAppendNext(pFr:tpFaktorRec;Limit:tnumber); var

 pNum : tpNumber;
 pElems : tpElemArr;
 i : NativeInt;

begin

 with pFr^ do
 Begin
   i := frMaxIdx+1;
   pElems := @frElems[0];
   pNum := LoEGetActLstNumber(frNextFr);
   while Limit > pNum^ do
   Begin
     IF i > High(frElems) then
     Begin
       LoEIncreaseElems(pFr,10);
       pElems := @frElems[0];
     end;
     pElems^[i] := LoEGetNextNumber(frNextFr);
     inc(i);
     pNum := LoEGetActLstNumber(frNextFr);
   end;
   inc(ActIndex,i);
   frMaxIdx:= i-1;
 end;

end;

procedure LoENextList(pFr:tpFaktorRec); var

 pElems : tpElemArr;
 j : NativeUint;

begin

 with pFR^ do
 Begin
   //increase Elements by factor
   pElems := @frElems[0];
   for j := frMaxIdx Downto 0 do
     with pElems^[j] do
     Begin
       n := n+frLnPrime;
       inc(Pots[frPotNo]);
     end;
   //x^j -> x^(j+1)
   j := frActPot+1;
   with frActNumb do
   begin
     n:= j*frLnPrime;
     Pots[frPotNo]:= j;
   end;
   frActPot := j;
   //if something follows
   IF frNextFr <> NIL then
     LoEInsertNext(pFR,frActNumb.n);
   frAktIdx := 0;
 end;

end;

function LoEGetNextNumber(pFR :tpFaktorRec):tElem; Begin

 with pFr^ do
 Begin
   result := frElems[frAktIdx];
   inc(frAktIdx);
   IF frMaxIdx < frAktIdx then
     LoENextList(pFr);
 end;

end;

procedure LoEGetNumber(pFR :tpFaktorRec;no:NativeUint); Begin

 dec(no);
 while ActIndex < no do
   LoENextList(pFR);
 with pFr^ do
   frAktIdx := (no-(ActIndex-frMaxIdx)-1);

end;

var

 T1,T0: tDateTime;
 FA: tArrFR;
 i : integer;

Begin

 PlInit(3);// 3 -> 2,3,5
 LoECreate(Pl,FA);
 i := 1;
 i := 1;
 T0 := time;
 For i := 1 to 20 do
   AusgabeElem(LoEGetNextNumber(@FA[0]));
 LoEGetNumber(@FA[0],1691);
 AusgabeElem(LoEGetNextNumber(@FA[0]));


 LoEGetNumber(@FA[0],1000*1000);
 AusgabeElem(LoEGetNextNumber(@FA[0]));
 LoEGetNumber(@FA[0],100*1000*1000);
 T1 := time;
 AusgabeElem(LoEGetNextNumber(@FA[0]));
 Writeln('Timed 100*1000*1000 in ',FormatDateTime('HH:NN:SS.ZZZ',T1-T0));


 Writeln('Actual Index ',ActIndex );
 AusgabeElem(LoEGetNextNumber(@FA[0]));
 For i := 0 to High(FA) do
   writeln(pL[i]:2,
    ' elemcount  ',FA[i].frMaxIdx+1:7,' out of',length(FA[i].frElems):7);
 LoEFree(FA);

End.</lang> Output

2,3,4,5....,36,40 ... shortened

      2125764000  2^5  3^12  5^3  0^0
ln   192.7618989  2^55  3^47  5^64  0^0
ln   900.9063136  2^2  3^454  5^249  0^0
Timed 100*1000*1000 in 00:00:00.276
Actual Index 100061507
ln   900.9063159  2^142  3^80  5^444  0^0
 2 elemcount   230300 out of 348159
 3 elemcount      561 out of    772
 5 elemcount        1 out of      2

real    0m0.278s
user    0m0.273s
sys     0m0.003s

      2125764000  2^5  3^12  5^3  0^0
ln   192.7618989  2^55  3^47  5^64  0^0
ln   417.2530468  2^80  3^92  5^162  0^0
00:00:00.028

Actual Index 10201068944--> hamming Nr: 100200300400 see http://ideone.com/q3fma 
ln  4215.6152353  2^942  3^2276  5^660  0^0
2 elemcount  5028911 out of 5841156
3 elemcount    2620 out of     3165
5 elemcount       1 out of        2

real    0m35.963s
user    0m35.907s
sys     0m0.023s

...
change zu use 12 primes [2..37] ( 32 bit ) -> 2.2x runtime  over using 3 primes 
Begin
  PlInit(12)

ln    40.8834947  2^14  3^0  5^6  7^4 11^2 13^1 17^0 19^1 23^0 29^0 31^1 37^0
Actual Index  100269652
Timed 100000000 in 00:00:02.807

 2 elemcount   14322779 out of 14953361
 3 elemcount    3387290 out of  3650722
 5 elemcount     891236 out of   891289
 7 elemcount     289599 out of   348159
11 elemcount      92240 out of   135999
13 elemcount      28272 out of    33202
17 elemcount       9394 out of    12969
19 elemcount       2639 out of     3165
23 elemcount        676 out of      772
29 elemcount        119 out of      188
31 elemcount         15 out of       17
37 elemcount          1 out of        2

Perl

<lang perl>use List::Util 'min';

  1. If you want the large output, uncomment either the one line
  2. marked (1) or the two lines marked (2)
  3. use Math::GMP qw/:constant/; # (1) uncomment this to use Math::GMP
  4. use Math::GMPz; # (2) uncomment this plus later line for Math::GMPz

sub ham_gen { my @s = ([1], [1], [1]); my @m = (2, 3, 5); #@m = map { Math::GMPz->new($_) } @m; # (2) uncomment for Math::GMPz

return sub { my $n = min($s[0][0], $s[1][0], $s[2][0]); for (0 .. 2) { shift @{$s[$_]} if $s[$_][0] == $n; push @{$s[$_]}, $n * $m[$_] }

return $n } }

my ($h, $i) = ham_gen;

++$i, print $h->(), " " until $i > 20; print "...\n";

++$i, $h->() until $i == 1690; print ++$i, "-th: ", $h->(), "\n";

  1. You will need to pick one of the bigint choices
  2. ++$i, $h->() until $i == 999999;
  3. print ++$i, "-th: ", $h->(), "\n";

</lang>

Output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36 40 ...
1691-th: 2125764000
1000000-th: 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

The core module bigint (Math::BigInt) is very slow, even with the GMP backend. There are some common alternatives. Math::GMP is handy and takes about 15 seconds. Math::GMPz takes slightly more work but finishes in about 5 seconds.

Perl 6

Works with: rakudo version 2015-11-04

The limit scaling is not required, but it cuts down on a bunch of unnecessary calculation. <lang perl6>my $limit = 32;

sub powers_of ($radix) { 1, |[\*] $radix xx * }

my @hammings =

 (   powers_of(2)[^ $limit ]       X*
     powers_of(3)[^($limit * 2/3)] X* 
     powers_of(5)[^($limit * 1/2)]
  ).sort;

say @hammings[^20]; say @hammings[1690]; # zero indexed</lang>

Output:
(1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36)
2125764000

PicoLisp

<lang PicoLisp>(de hamming (N)

  (let (L (1)  H)
     (do N
        (for (X L X (cadr X))      # Find smallest result
           (setq H (car X)) )
        (idx 'L H NIL)             # Remove it
        (for I (2 3 5)             # Generate next results
           (idx 'L (* I H) T) ) )
     H ) )

(println (make (for N 20 (link (hamming N))))) (println (hamming 1691)) (println (hamming 1000000))</lang>

Output:
(1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36)
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

PL/I

<lang PL/I>(subscriptrange): Hamming: procedure options (main); /* 14 November 2013 */

  declare (H(3000), t) fixed (15);
  declare (i, j, k, m, n) fixed binary;
  declare swaps bit (1);
  on underflow ;
  m = 0; n = 12;
  do k = 0 to n;
     do j = 0 to n;
        do i = 0 to n;
           m = m + 1;
           H(m) = 2**i * 3**j * 5**k;
        end;
     end;
  end;
  /* sort */
  swaps = '1'b;
  do while (swaps); /* Cocktail-shaker sort is adequate, because values are largely sorted */
     swaps = '0'b;
     do i = 1 to m-1, i-1 to 1 by -1;
        if H(i) > H(i+1) then /* swap */
           do; t = H(i); H(i) = H(i+1); H(i+1) = t; swaps = '1'b; end;
     end;
  end;
  do i = 1 to m;
     put skip data (H(i));
  end;
  put skip data (H(1653));

end Hamming;</lang> Results:

H(1)=                 1;
H(2)=                 2;
H(3)=                 3;
H(4)=                 4;
H(5)=                 5;
H(6)=                 6;
H(7)=                 8;
H(8)=                 9;
H(9)=                10;
H(10)=                12;
H(11)=                15;
H(12)=                16;
H(13)=                18;
H(14)=                20;
H(15)=                24;
H(16)=                25;
H(17)=                27;
H(18)=                30;
H(19)=                32;
H(20)=                36;

Prolog

Generator idiom

<lang Prolog>%% collect N elements produced by a generator in a row

take( 0, Next, Z-Z, Next). take( N, Next, [A|B]-Z, NZ):- N>0, !, next(Next,A,Next1),

 N1 is N-1,
 take(N1,Next1,B-Z,NZ).

%% a generator provides specific {next} implementation

next( hamm( A2,B,C3,D,E5,F,[H|G] ), H, hamm(X,U,Y,V,Z,W,G) ):-

 H is min(A2, min(C3,E5)),
 (   A2 =:= H -> B=[N2|U],X is N2*2 ; (X,U)=(A2,B) ),
 (   C3 =:= H -> D=[N3|V],Y is N3*3 ; (Y,V)=(C3,D) ),
 (   E5 =:= H -> F=[N5|W],Z is N5*5 ; (Z,W)=(E5,F) ).

mkHamm( hamm(1,X,1,X,1,X,X) ).  % Hamming numbers generator init state

main(N) :-

   mkHamm(G),take(20,G,A-[],_),           write(A), nl, 
   take(1691-1,G,_,G2),take(2,G2,B-[],_),     write(B), nl,  
   take(  N  -1,G,_,G3),take(2,G3,[C1|_]-_,_),   write(C1), nl.</lang>

SWI Prolog 6.2.6 produces (in about 7 ideone seconds):

 ?- time( main(1000000) ).
 [1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15,16,18,20,24,25,27,30,32,36]
 [2125764000,2147483648]
 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 % 10,017,142 inferences

Laziness flavor

Works with SWI-Prolog. Laziness is simulate with freeze/2 and ground/2.
Took inspiration from this code : http://chr.informatik.uni-ulm.de/~webchr (click on hamming.pl: Solves Hamming Problem). <lang Prolog>hamming(N) :-

    % to stop cleanly
    nb_setval(go, 1),
    % display list
    (	 N = 20 -> watch_20(20, L); watch(1,N,L)),
    % go
    L=[1|L235],
    multlist(L,2,L2),
    multlist(L,3,L3),
    multlist(L,5,L5),
    merge_(L2,L3,L23),
    merge_(L5,L23,L235).


%% multlist(L,N,LN) %% multiply each element of list L with N, resulting in list LN %% here only do multiplication for 1st element, then use multlist recursively multlist([X|L],N,XLN) :- % the trick to stop nb_getval(go, 1) ->

% laziness flavor when(ground(X), ( XN is X*N, XLN=[XN|LN], multlist(L,N,LN)));

true.

merge_([X|In1],[Y|In2],XYOut) :- % the trick to stop nb_getval(go, 1) ->

% laziness flavor ( X < Y -> XYOut = [X|Out], In11 = In1, In12 = [Y|In2] ; X = Y -> XYOut = [X|Out], In11 = In1, In12 = In2 ; XYOut = [Y|Out], In11 = [X | In1], In12 = In2), freeze(In11,freeze(In12, merge_(In11,In12,Out)));

true.

%% display nth element watch(Max, Max, [X|_]) :- % laziness flavor when(ground(X), (format('~w~n', [X]),

 % the trick to stop nb_linkval(go, 0))).


watch(N, Max, [_X|L]):- N1 is N + 1, watch(N1, Max, L).


%% display nth element watch_20(1, [X|_]) :- % laziness flavor when(ground(X), (format('~w~n', [X]),

 % the trick to stop nb_linkval(go, 0))).


watch_20(N, [X|L]):- % laziness flavor when(ground(X), (format('~w ', [X]), N1 is N - 1, watch_20(N1, L))).</lang>

Output:
?- hamming(20).
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
true .

?- hamming(1691).
2125764000
true .

?- hamming(1000000).
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
true .

Python

Version based on example from Dr. Dobb's CodeTalk

<lang python>from itertools import islice

def hamming2():

   \
   This version is based on a snippet from:
       http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=913&Itemid=85
       When expressed in some imaginary pseudo-C with automatic
       unlimited storage allocation and BIGNUM arithmetics, it can be
       expressed as:
           hamming = h where
             array h;
             n=0; h[0]=1; i=0; j=0; k=0;
             x2=2*h[ i ]; x3=3*h[j]; x5=5*h[k];
             repeat:
               h[++n] = min(x2,x3,x5);
               if (x2==h[n]) { x2=2*h[++i]; }
               if (x3==h[n]) { x3=3*h[++j]; }
               if (x5==h[n]) { x5=5*h[++k]; } 
   
   h = 1
   _h=[h]    # memoized
   multipliers  = (2, 3, 5)
   multindeces  = [0 for i in multipliers] # index into _h for multipliers
   multvalues   = [x * _h[i] for x,i in zip(multipliers, multindeces)]
   yield h
   while True:
       h = min(multvalues)
       _h.append(h)
       for (n,(v,x,i)) in enumerate(zip(multvalues, multipliers, multindeces)):
           if v == h:
               i += 1
               multindeces[n] = i
               multvalues[n]  = x * _h[i]
       # cap the memoization
       mini = min(multindeces)
       if mini >= 1000:
           del _h[:mini]
           multindeces = [i - mini for i in multindeces]
       #
       yield h</lang>
Output:
>>> list(islice(hamming2(), 20))
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36]
>>> list(islice(hamming2(), 1690, 1691))
[2125764000]
>>> list(islice(hamming2(), 999999, 1000000))
[519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000]

Another implementation of same approach

This version uses a lot of memory, it doesn't try to limit memory usage. <lang python>import psyco

def hamming(limit):

   h = [1] * limit
   x2, x3, x5 = 2, 3, 5
   i = j = k = 0
   for n in xrange(1, limit):
       h[n] = min(x2, x3, x5)
       if x2 == h[n]:
           i += 1
           x2 = 2 * h[i]
       if x3 == h[n]:
           j += 1
           x3 = 3 * h[j]
       if x5 == h[n]:
           k += 1
           x5 = 5 * h[k]
   return h[-1]

psyco.bind(hamming) print [hamming(i) for i in xrange(1, 21)] print hamming(1691) print hamming(1000000)</lang>

"Cyclical Iterators"

The original author is Raymond Hettinger and the code was first published here under the MIT license. Uses iterators dubbed "cyclical" in a sense that they are referring back (explicitly, with p2, p3, p5 iterators) to the previously produced values, same as the above versions (through indecies into shared storage) and the classic Haskell version (implicitly timed by lazy evaluation).

Memory is efficiently maintained automatically by the tee function for each of the three generator expressions, i.e. only that much is maintained as needed to produce the next value (although it looks like the storage is not shared so three copies are maintained implicitly there). <lang python>from itertools import tee, chain, groupby, islice from heapq import merge

def raymonds_hamming():

   # Generate "5-smooth" numbers, also called "Hamming numbers"
   # or "Regular numbers".  See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_number
   # Finds solutions to 2**i * 3**j * 5**k  for some integers i, j, and k.
   def deferred_output():
       for i in output:
           yield i
   result, p2, p3, p5 = tee(deferred_output(), 4)
   m2 = (2*x for x in p2)                          # multiples of 2
   m3 = (3*x for x in p3)                          # multiples of 3
   m5 = (5*x for x in p5)                          # multiples of 5
   merged = merge(m2, m3, m5)
   combined = chain([1], merged)                   # prepend a starting point
   output = (k for k,g in groupby(combined))       # eliminate duplicates
   return result

print list(islice(raymonds_hamming(), 20)) print islice(raymonds_hamming(), 1689, 1690).next() print islice(raymonds_hamming(), 999999, 1000000).next()</lang> Results are the same as before.

Non-sharing recursive generator

Another formulation along the same lines, but greatly simplified, found here. Lacks data sharing, i.e. calls self recursively thus creating a separate copy of the data stream fed to the tee() call, again and again, instead of using its own output. This gravely impacts the efficiency. Not to be used.

<lang python>from heapq import merge from itertools import tee

def hamming_numbers():

   last = 1
   yield last
   a,b,c = tee(hamming_numbers(), 3)
   for n in merge((2*i for i in a), (3*i for i in b), (5*i for i in c)):
       if n != last:
           yield n
           last = n</lang>

Cyclic generator method #2.

Cyclic generator method #2. Considerably faster due to early elimination (before merge) of duplicates. Currently the faster Python version. Direct copy of Haskell code. <lang python>from itertools import islice, chain, tee

def merge(r, s):

   # This is faster than heapq.merge.
   rr = r.next()
   ss = s.next()
   while True:
       if rr < ss:
           yield rr
           rr = r.next()
       else:
           yield ss
           ss = s.next()

def p(n):

   def gen():
       x = n
       while True:
           yield x
           x *= n
   return gen()

def pp(n, s):

   def gen():
       for x in (merge(s, chain([n], (n * y for y in fb)))):
           yield x
   r, fb = tee(gen())
   return r

def hamming(a, b = None):

   if not b:
       b = a + 1
   seq = (chain([1], pp(5, pp(3, p(2)))))
   return list(islice(seq, a - 1, b - 1))

print hamming(1, 21) print hamming(1691)[0] print hamming(1000000)[0]</lang>

Qi

This example is incomplete. Parts 2 & 3 of task missing. Please ensure that it meets all task requirements and remove this message.
Translation of: Clojure

<lang qi>(define smerge

 [X|Xs] [Y|Ys] -> [X | (freeze (smerge (thaw Xs) [Y|Ys]))] where (< X Y)
 [X|Xs] [Y|Ys] -> [Y | (freeze (smerge [X|Xs] (thaw Ys)))] where (> X Y)
 [X|Xs] [_|Ys] -> [X | (freeze (smerge (thaw Xs) (thaw Ys)))])

(define smerge3

 Xs Ys Zs -> (smerge Xs (smerge Ys Zs)))

(define smap

 F [S|Ss] -> [(F S)|(freeze (smap F (thaw Ss)))])

(set hamming [1 | (freeze (smerge3 (smap (* 2) (value hamming))

                                  (smap (* 3) (value hamming))
                                  (smap (* 5) (value hamming))))])

(define stake

 _      0 -> []
 [S|Ss] N -> [S|(stake (thaw Ss) (1- N))])

(stake (value hamming) 20)</lang>

Output:
[1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36]

R

Recursively find the Hamming numbers below . Shown are results for tasks 1 and 2. Arbitrary precision integers are not supported natively. <lang R>hamming=function(hamms,limit) {

 tmp=hamms
 for(h in c(2,3,5)) {
   tmp=c(tmp,h*hamms)
 }
 tmp=unique(tmp[tmp<=limit])
 if(length(tmp)>length(hamms)) {
   hamms=hamming(tmp,limit)
 }
 hamms

} h <- sort(hamming(1,limit=2^31-1)) print(h[1:20]) print(h[length(h)])</lang>

Output:
[1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  8  9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
[1] 2125764000

Racket

<lang racket>#lang racket (require racket/stream) (define first stream-first) (define rest stream-rest)

(define (merge s1 s2)

 (define x1 (first s1))
 (define x2 (first s2))
 (cond [(= x1 x2) (merge s1 (rest s2))]
       [(< x1 x2) (stream-cons x1 (merge (rest s1) s2))]
       [else      (stream-cons x2 (merge s1 (rest s2)))]))

(define (mult k) (λ(x) (* x k)))

(define hamming

 (stream-cons 
  1 (merge (stream-map (mult 2) hamming)
           (merge (stream-map (mult 3) hamming)
                  (stream-map (mult 5) hamming)))))

(for/list ([i 20] [x hamming]) x) (stream-ref hamming 1690) (stream-ref hamming 999999)</lang>

Output:
'(1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36)
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Translation of Haskell code avoiding duplicates

The above version consumes quite a lot of memory as streams are retained since the head of the stream is a global defined binding "hamming". The following code implements (hamming) as a function and all heads of streams are locally defined so that they can be garbage collected as they are consumed; as well it is formulated so that no duplicate values are generated so as to simplify the calculation and minimize the number of values in the streams, to further the last it also evaluates the least dense stream first. The following code is about three times faster than the above code:

Translation of: Haskell

<lang racket>#lang racket (require racket/stream) (define first stream-first) (define rest stream-rest)

(define (hamming)

 (define (merge s1 s2)
   (let ([x1 (first s1)]
         [x2 (first s2)])
     (if (< x1 x2) ; don't have to handle duplicate case
         (stream-cons x1 (merge (rest s1) s2))
         (stream-cons x2 (merge s1 (rest s2))))))
 (define (smult m s) ; faster than using map (* m)
   (define (smlt ss)
     (stream-cons (* m (first ss)) (smlt (rest ss))))
   (smlt s))
 (define (u s n)
   (if (stream-empty? s) ; checking here more efficient than in merge
       (letrec ([r (smult n (stream-cons 1 r))])
         r)
       (letrec ([r (merge s (smult n (stream-cons 1 r)))])
         r)))
 (stream-cons 1 (stream-fold u empty-stream '(5 3 2))))

(for/list ([i 20] [x (hamming)]) x) (newline) (stream-ref (hamming) 1690) (newline) (stream-ref (hamming) 999999) (newline)</lang>

The output of the above code is the same as that of the earlier code.

Raven

Translation of: Liberty Basic

<lang raven>define hamming use $limit

   [ ] as $h
   1 $h 0 set
   2 as $x2   3 as $x3    5 as $x5
   0 as $i    0 as $j     0 as $k
   1 $limit 1 + 1 range each as $n
       $x3 $x5 min $x2 min    $h $n   set
       $h $n get   $x2 =  if
           $i  1 +   as $i
           $h $i get    2 *     as $x2
       $h $n get   $x3 =  if
           $j  1 +   as $j
           $h $j get    3 *     as $x3
       $h $n get   $x5 =  if
           $k  1 +   as $k
           $h $k get    5 *     as $x5
   $h   $limit 1 -   get

1 21 1 range each as $lim

   $lim hamming print " " print

"\n" print

"Hamming(1691) is: " print 1691 hamming print "\n" print

  1. Raven can't handle > 2^31 using integers
  2. "Hamming(1000000) is: " print 1000000 hamming print "\n" print</lang>
Output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36 
Hamming(1691) is: 2125764000

REXX

Both REXX versions compute and produce the Hamming numbers in numerical order.

idiomatic

This REXX program was a direct translation from my old REXX subroutine to compute   UGLY   numbers,
it computes   just enough   Hamming numbers   (one Hamming number after the current number). <lang rexx>/*REXX program computes Hamming numbers: 1 ──► 20, # 1691, and the one millionth. */ numeric digits 100 /*ensure enough decimal digits. */ call hamming 1, 20 /*show the 1st ──► twentieth Hamming #s*/ call hamming 1691 /*show the 1,691st Hamming number. */ call hamming 1000000 /*show the 1 millionth Hamming number.*/ exit /*stick a fork in it, we're all done. */ /*──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────*/ hamming: procedure; parse arg x,y; if y== then y=x; w=length(y)

                              #2=1;     #3=1;     #5=1;     @.=0;        @.1=1
              do n=2  for y-1
              @.n = min(2*@.#2, 3*@.#3, 5*@.#5)   /*pick the minimum of 3 (Hamming) #s.*/
              if 2*@.#2 == @.n   then #2 = #2+1   /*number already defined?  Use next #*/
              if 3*@.#3 == @.n   then #3 = #3+1   /*   "      "       "       "    "  "*/
              if 5*@.#5 == @.n   then #5 = #5+1   /*   "      "       "       "    "  "*/
              end   /*n*/                         /* [↑]  maybe assign next 3 Hamming#s*/
                             do j=x  to y
                             say 'Hamming('right(j,w)") ="  @.j
                             end   /*j*/
         say right( 'length of last Hamming number ='     length(@.y),  70);        say
         return</lang>

output   when using the default input(s):

Hamming( 1) = 1
Hamming( 2) = 2
Hamming( 3) = 3
Hamming( 4) = 4
Hamming( 5) = 5
Hamming( 6) = 6
Hamming( 7) = 8
Hamming( 8) = 9
Hamming( 9) = 10
Hamming(10) = 12
Hamming(11) = 15
Hamming(12) = 16
Hamming(13) = 18
Hamming(14) = 20
Hamming(15) = 24
Hamming(16) = 25
Hamming(17) = 27
Hamming(18) = 30
Hamming(19) = 32
Hamming(20) = 36
                                     length of last Hamming number = 2

Hamming(1691) = 2125764000
                                    length of last Hamming number = 10

Hamming(1000000) = 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
                                    length of last Hamming number = 84

unrolled

This REXX version is roughly twice as fast as the 1st REXX version. <lang rexx>/*REXX program computes Hamming numbers: 1 ──► 20, # 1691, and the one millionth.*/ numeric digits 100 /*ensure enough decimal digits. */ call hamming 1, 20 /*show the 1st ──► twentieth Hamming #s*/ call hamming 1691 /*show the 1,691st Hamming number. */ call hamming 1000000 /*show the 1 millionth Hamming number.*/ exit /*stick a fork in it, we're all done. */ /*──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────*/ hamming: procedure; parse arg x,y; if y== then y=x; w=length(y)

                                      #2=1;     #3=1;      #5=1;       @.=0;        @.1=1
            do n=2  for y-1
            _2 = @.#2 + @.#2                    /*this is faster than:      @.#2 * 2   */
            _3 = @.#3 * 3
            _5 = @.#5 * 5
                              m  = _2           /*assume a minimum (of the 3 Hammings).*/
            if _3  < m   then m  = _3           /*is this number less than the minimum?*/
            if _5  < m   then m  = _5           /* "   "     "     "    "   "     "    */
               @.n = m                          /*now,  assign the next Hamming number.*/
            if _2 == m   then #2 = #2 + 1       /*number already defined?   Use next #.*/
            if _3 == m   then #3 = #3 + 1       /*   "      "       "        "    "  " */
            if _5 == m   then #5 = #5 + 1       /*   "      "       "        "    "  " */
            end   /*n*/                         /* [↑]  maybe assign next Hamming #'s. */
                              do j=x  to y
                              say 'Hamming('right(j, w)") ="    @.j
                              end   /*j*/
        say right( 'length of last Hamming number ='     length(@.y),  70);           say
        return</lang>

output   is identical to the 1st REXX version.

Ring

<lang ring> see "h(1) = 1" + nl for nr = 1 to 19

    see "h(" + (nr+1) + ") = " + hamming(nr) + nl

next see "h(1691) = " + hamming(1690) + nl see nl

func hamming limit

    h = list(1690)
    h[1] =1
    x2 = 2 x3 = 3 x5 =5
    i  = 0 j  = 0 k  =0   
    for n =1 to limit
        h[n]  = min(x2, min(x3, x5))
        if x2 = h[n]  i = i +1  x2 =2 *h[i] ok
        if x3 = h[n]  j = j +1  x3 =3 *h[j] ok
        if x5 = h[n]  k = k +1  x5 =5 *h[k] ok
    next
    hamming = h[limit]
    return hamming

</lang> Output:

h(1) = 1
h(2) = 2
h(3) = 3
h(4) = 4
h(5) = 5
h(6) = 6
h(7) = 8
h(8) = 9
h(9) = 10
h(10) = 12
h(11) = 15
h(12) = 16
h(13) = 18
h(14) = 20
h(15) = 24
h(16) = 25
h(17) = 27
h(18) = 30
h(19) = 32
h(20) = 36
h(1691) = 2125764000

Ruby

Translation of: Scala
Works with: Ruby version 1.9.3

<lang ruby>hamming = Enumerator.new do |yielder|

 next_ham = 1
 queues = [[ 2, []], [3, []], [5, []] ]
 
 loop do
   yielder << next_ham   # or: yielder.yield(next_ham)
   
   queues.each {|m,queue| queue << next_ham * m}
   next_ham = queues.collect{|m,queue| queue.first}.min
   queues.each {|m,queue| queue.shift if queue.first==next_ham}
 end

end</lang> And the "main" part of the task <lang ruby>start = Time.now

hamming.each.with_index(1) do |ham, idx|

 case idx
 when (1..20), 1691
   puts "#{idx} => #{ham}"
 when 1_000_000
   puts "#{idx} => #{ham}"
   break
 end

end

puts "elapsed: #{Time.now - start} seconds"</lang>

Output:
1 => 1
2 => 2
3 => 3
4 => 4
5 => 5
6 => 6
7 => 8
8 => 9
9 => 10
10 => 12
11 => 15
12 => 16
13 => 18
14 => 20
15 => 24
16 => 25
17 => 27
18 => 30
19 => 32
20 => 36
1691 => 2125764000
[1000000, 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000]
elapsed: 6.522811 seconds

Run BASIC

<lang runbasic> dim h(1000000) for i =1 to 20

   print hamming(i);" ";

next i

print print "Hamming List First(1691) =";chr$(9);hamming(1691) print "Hamming List Last(1000000) =";chr$(9);hamming(1000000)

end

function hamming(limit)

   h(0) =1
   x2 = 2: x3 = 3: x5 =5
   i  = 0: j  = 0: k  =0
   for n =1 to limit
       h(n)  = min(x2, min(x3, x5))
       if x2 = h(n) then i = i +1: x2 =2 *h(i)
       if x3 = h(n) then j = j +1: x3 =3 *h(j)
       if x5 = h(n) then k = k +1: x5 =5 *h(k)
   next n
   hamming = h(limit -1)

end function</lang>

1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36 
Hamming List First(1691)   =	2125764000
Hamming List Last(1000000) =	519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Rust

Library: num

Basic version

Translation of: D

Improved by minimizing the number of BigUint comparisons: <lang rust>extern crate num; num::bigint::BigUint;

use std::time::Instant;

fn basic_hamming(n: usize) -> BigUint {

   let two = BigUint::from(2u8);
   let three = BigUint::from(3u8);
   let five = BigUint::from(5u8);
   let mut h = vec![BigUint::from(0u8); n];
   h[0] = BigUint::from(1u8);
   let mut x2 = BigUint::from(2u8);
   let mut x3 = BigUint::from(3u8);
   let mut x5 = BigUint::from(5u8);
   let mut i = 0usize; let mut j = 0usize; let mut k = 0usize;
   // BigUint comparisons are expensive, so do it only as necessary...
   fn min3(x: &BigUint, y: &BigUint, z: &BigUint) -> (usize, BigUint) {
       let (cs, r1) = if y == z { (0x6, y) } 
                       else if y < z { (2, y) } else { (4, z) };
       if x == r1 { (cs | 1, x.clone()) }
       else if x < r1 { (1, x.clone()) } else { (cs, r1.clone()) }
   }
   let mut c = 1;
   while c < n { // satisfy borrow checker with extra blocks: {  }
       let (cs, e1) = { min3(&x2, &x3, &x5) };
       h[c] = e1; // vector now owns the generated value
       if (cs & 1) != 0 { i += 1; x2 = &two * &h[i] }
       if (cs & 2) != 0 { j += 1; x3 = &three * &h[j] }	
       if (cs & 4) != 0 { k += 1; x5 = &five * &h[k] }
       c += 1;
   }
   match h.pop() {
       Some(v) => v,
       _ => panic!("basic_hamming: arg is zero; no elements")
   }

}

fn main() {

   print!("[");
   for (i, h) in (1..21).map(basic_hamming).enumerate() {
       if i != 0 { print!(",") }
       print!(" {}", h)
   }
   println!(" ]");
   println!("{}", basic_hamming(1691));
   let strt = Instant::now();
   let rslt = basic_hamming(1000000);
   let elpsd = strt.elapsed();
   let secs = elpsd.as_secs();
   let millis = (elpsd.subsec_nanos() / 1000000)as u64;
   let dur = secs * 1000 + millis;
   let rs = rslt.to_str_radix(10);
   let mut s = rs.as_str();
   println!("{} digits:", s.len());
       while s.len() > 100 {
           let (f, r) = s.split_at(100);
           s = r;
           println!("{}", f);
       }
       println!("{}", s);
   println!("This last took {} milliseconds", dur);

}</lang>

Output:
[ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36 ]
2125764000
84 digits:
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
This last took 677 milliseconds.

Eliminating duplicate calculations

Much of the time above is wasted doing big integer multiplications that are duplicated elsewhere as in 2 times 3 and 3 times 2, etc. The following code eliminates such duplicate multiplications and reduces the number of comparisons, as follows: <lang rust>fn nodups_hamming(n: usize) -> BigUint {

   let two = BigUint::from(2u8);
   let three = BigUint::from(3u8);
   let five = BigUint::from(5u8);
   let mut m = vec![BigUint::from(0u8); 1];
   m[0] = BigUint::from(1u8);
   let mut h = vec![BigUint::from(0u8); n];
   h[0] = BigUint::from(1u8);
   if n > 1 {
       m.push(BigUint::from(3u8)); // for initial x53 advance
       h[1] = BigUint::from(2u8); // for initial x532 advance
   }
   let mut x5 = BigUint::from(5u8);
   let mut x53 = BigUint::from(9u8); // 3 times 3 because already merged one step
   let mut mrg = BigUint::from(3u8);
   let mut x532 = BigUint::from(2u8);
   let mut i = 0usize; let mut j = 1usize;
   let mut c = 1usize;
   while c < n { // satisfy borrow checker with extra blocks: {  }
       if &x532 < &mrg { h[c] = x532; i += 1; x532 = &two * &h[i]; }
       else {	h[c] = mrg;
               if &x53 < &x5 { mrg = x53; j += 1; x53 = &three * &m[j]; }
               else { mrg = x5.clone(); x5 = &five * &x5; };
               m.push(mrg.clone()); };
       c += 1;
   }
   match h.pop() {
       Some(v) => v,
       _ => panic!("nodups_hamming: arg is zero; no elements")
   }

}</lang>

Substitute the calls to the above code for the calls to "basic_hamming" (three places) in the "main" function above. The output is the same except that the time expended is less (249 milliseconds), for over two and a half times faster.

Much faster logarithmic version with low memory use

The above versions spend much of their time doing BigUint calculations. The below version eliminates much of that time by using integer powers of 2, 3, and 5 representations and all normal integer calculations except for the final conversion to a BitUint for the final result for about a 30 times speed-up.

Another problem is that the above versions use so much memory that they can't compute even the billionth hamming number without running out of memory on a 16 Gigabyte machine. This version greatly reduces the memory use to about O(n^(2/3)) by eliminating no longer required back values in batches so that with about 9 Gigabytes it will calculate the hamming numbers to 1.2e13 (it's limit due to the ranges of the exponents) in a day or so. The code is as follows: <lang rust>fn log_nodups_hamming(n: u64) -> BigUint {

   if n <= 0 { panic!("nodups_hamming: arg is zero; no elements") }
   if n < 2 { return BigUint::from(1u8) } // trivial case for n == 1
   if n > 1.2e13 as u64 { panic!("log_nodups_hamming: argument too large to guarantee results!") }
   // constants as expanded integers to minimize round-off errors, and
   // reduce execution time using integer operations not float...
   const LAA2: u64 = 35184372088832; // 2.0f64.powi(45)).round() as u64;
   const LBA2: u64 = 55765910372219; // 3.0f64.log2() * 2.0f64.powi(45)).round() as u64;
   const LCA2: u64 = 81695582054030; // 5.0f64.log2() * 2.0f64.powi(45)).round() as u64;
   #[derive(Clone, Copy)]
   struct Logelm { // log representation of an element with only allowable powers
       exp2: u16,
       exp3: u16,
       exp5: u16,
       logr: u64 // log representation used for comparison only - not exact
   }
   impl Logelm {
       fn lte(&self, othr: &Logelm) -> bool {
           if self.logr <= othr.logr { true } else { false }
       }
       fn mul2(&self) -> Logelm {
           Logelm { exp2: self.exp2 + 1, logr: self.logr + LAA2, .. *self }
       }
       fn mul3(&self) -> Logelm {
           Logelm { exp3: self.exp3 + 1, logr: self.logr + LBA2, .. *self }
       }
       fn mul5(&self) -> Logelm {
           Logelm { exp5: self.exp5 + 1, logr: self.logr + LCA2, .. *self }
       }
   }
   let one = Logelm { exp2: 0, exp3: 0, exp5: 0, logr: 0 };
   let mut x532 = one.mul2();
   let mut mrg = one.mul3();
   let mut x53 = one.mul3().mul3(); // advance as mrg has the former value...
   let mut x5 = one.mul5();
   let mut h = Vec::with_capacity(65536); // vec!(one.clone(); 0);
   let mut m = Vec::<Logelm>::with_capacity(65536); // vec!(one.clone(); 0);
   let mut i = 0usize; let mut j = 0usize;
   for _ in 1 .. n {
       let cph = h.capacity();
       if i > cph / 2 { // drain extra unneeded values...
           h.drain(0 .. i);
           i = 0;
       }
       if x532.lte(&mrg) {
           h.push(x532);
           x532 = h[i].mul2();
           i += 1;
       } else {
           h.push(mrg);
           if x53.lte(&x5) {
               mrg = x53;
               x53 = m[j].mul3();
               j += 1;
           } else {
               mrg = x5;
               x5 = x5.mul5();
           }
           let cpm = m.capacity();
           if j > cpm / 2 { // drain extra unneeded values...
               m.drain(0 .. j);
               j = 0;
           }
           m.push(mrg);
       }
   }
   let o = &h[&h.len() - 1];
   let two = BigUint::from(2u8);
   let three = BigUint::from(3u8);
   let five = BigUint::from(5u8);
   let mut ob = BigUint::from(1u8); // convert to BigUint at the end
   for _ in 0 .. o.exp2 { ob = ob * &two }
   for _ in 0 .. o.exp3 { ob = ob * &three }
   for _ in 0 .. o.exp5 { ob = ob * &five }
   ob

}</lang>

Again, this function can be used with the same "main" as above and the outputs are the same except that the execution time is only 7 milliseconds. It calculates the hamming number to a billion and just over a second and to one hundred billion in just over 100 seconds - O(n) time complexity. As well as eliminating duplicate calculations and calculating using exponents rather than BitUint operations, it also reduces the time required as compared to other similar algorithms by scaling the logarithms of two, three, and five into 64-bit integers so no floating point operations are required. The scaling is such that round-off errors will not affect the order of results for well past the usable range.

Memory used is greatly reduced to O(n^(2/3)) by draining the arrays of back values no longer required in batches (rather than one by one) so that less time is used. It also saves time by not requiring as many allocations and de-allocations as the draining is done in place, thus making the current capacity of arrays longer usable.

Sequence version

As the task actually asks for a sequence of Hamming numbers, any of the above three solutions can easily be adapted to output an Iterator sequence; in this case the last fastest one is converted as follows:

<lang rust>extern crate num; // requires dependency on the num library use num::bigint::BigUint;

use std::time::Instant;

fn log_nodups_hamming_iter() -> Box<Iterator<Item = (u16, u16, u16)>> {

   // constants as expanded integers to minimize round-off errors, and
   // reduce execution time using integer operations not float...
   const LAA2: u64 = 35184372088832; // 2.0f64.powi(45)).round() as u64;
   const LBA2: u64 = 55765910372219; // 3.0f64.log2() * 2.0f64.powi(45)).round() as u64;
   const LCA2: u64 = 81695582054030; // 5.0f64.log2() * 2.0f64.powi(45)).round() as u64;
   #[derive(Clone, Copy)]
   struct Logelm { // log representation of an element with only allowable powers
       exp2: u16,
       exp3: u16,
       exp5: u16,
       logr: u64 // log representation used for comparison only - not exact
   }
   impl Logelm {
       fn lte(&self, othr: &Logelm) -> bool {
           if self.logr <= othr.logr { true } else { false }
       }
       fn mul2(&self) -> Logelm {
           Logelm { exp2: self.exp2 + 1, logr: self.logr + LAA2, .. *self }
       }
       fn mul3(&self) -> Logelm {
           Logelm { exp3: self.exp3 + 1, logr: self.logr + LBA2, .. *self }
       }
       fn mul5(&self) -> Logelm {
           Logelm { exp5: self.exp5 + 1, logr: self.logr + LCA2, .. *self }
       }
   }
   let one = Logelm { exp2: 0, exp3: 0, exp5: 0, logr: 0 };
   let mut x532 = one.mul2();
   let mut mrg = one.mul3();
   let mut x53 = one.mul3().mul3(); // advance as mrg has the former value...
   let mut x5 = one.mul5();
   let mut h = Vec::with_capacity(65536);
   let mut m = Vec::<Logelm>::with_capacity(65536);
   let mut i = 0usize; let mut j = 0usize;
   Box::new((0u64 .. ).map(move |it| if it < 1 { (0, 0, 0) } else {
       let cph = h.capacity();
       if i > cph / 2 {
           h.drain(0 .. i);
           i = 0;
       }
       if x532.lte(&mrg) {
           h.push(x532);
           x532 = h[i].mul2();
           i += 1;
       } else {
           h.push(mrg);
           if x53.lte(&x5) {
               mrg = x53;
               x53 = m[j].mul3();
               j += 1;
           } else {
               mrg = x5;
               x5 = x5.mul5();
           }
           let cpm = m.capacity();
           if j > cpm / 2 {
               m.drain(0 .. j);
               j = 0;
           }
           m.push(mrg);
       }
       let o = &h[&h.len() - 1];
       (o.exp2, o.exp3, o.exp5)
   }))

}

fn convert_log2big(o: (u16, u16, u16)) -> BigUint {

   let two = BigUint::from(2u8);
   let three = BigUint::from(3u8);
   let five = BigUint::from(5u8);
   let (x2, x3, x5) = o;
   let mut ob = BigUint::from(1u8); // convert to BigUint at the end
   for _ in 0 .. x2 { ob = ob * &two }
   for _ in 0 .. x3 { ob = ob * &three }
   for _ in 0 .. x5 { ob = ob * &five }
   ob

}

fn main() {

   print!("[");
   for (i, h) in log_nodups_hamming_iter().take(20).map(convert_log2big).enumerate() {
       if i != 0 { print!(",") }
       print!(" {}", h)
   }
   println!(" ]");
   println!("{}", convert_log2big(log_nodups_hamming_iter().take(1691).last().unwrap()));
   let strt = Instant::now();

// let rslt = convert_log2big(log_nodups_hamming_iter().take(1000000000).last().unwrap());

   let mut it = log_nodups_hamming_iter().into_iter();
   for _ in 0 .. 100-1 { // a little faster; less one level of iteration
       let _ = it.next();
   }
   let rslt = convert_log2big(it.next().unwrap());
   let elpsd = strt.elapsed();
   let secs = elpsd.as_secs();
   let millis = (elpsd.subsec_nanos() / 1000000)as u64;
   let dur = secs * 1000 + millis;
   println!("2^{} times 3^{} times 5^{}", rslt.0, rslt.1, rslt.2);
   let rs = convert_log2big(rslt).to_str_radix(10);
   let mut s = rs.as_str();
   println!("{} digits:", s.len());
   let lg3 = 3.0f64.log2();
   let lg5 = 5.0f64.log2();
   let lg = (rslt.0 as f64 + rslt.1 as f64 * lg3

+ rslt.2 as f64 * lg5) * 2.0f64.log10();

   println!("Approximately {}E+{}", 10.0f64.powf(lg.fract()), lg.trunc());
   if s.len() <= 10000 {
       while s.len() > 100 {
           let (f, r) = s.split_at(100);
           s = r;
           println!("{}", f);
       }
       println!("{}", s);
   }
   println!("This last took {} milliseconds.", dur);

}</lang>

Output:
[ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36 ]
2125764000
2^55 times 3^47 times 5^64
84 digits:
Approximately 5.193127804483804E+83
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
This last took 17 milliseconds.

The above final output is the same as the last one, but the function is called differently; also note that it is somewhat slower than the last version due to the extra function calls required to enumerate over an Iterator. It can enumerate the Hamming numbers up to a billion in about 20 seconds instead of the about ten seconds for the last version - about O(n) time complexity, and has the same O(n^(2/3)) space complexity as the last version.

Extremely fast non-sequence version by calculation of top band of Hamming numbers

One might ask "What could possibly be done to further speed up finding Hamming numbers?": the answer is quite a lot, but one has to dump the ability to iterate a sequence as that depends on being able to refer to past calculated values by back pointers to the memorized O(n^(2/3)) arrays or lists and thus quite large amounts of memory. If one just wants to find very large Hamming numbers individually, one looks to the [mathematical analysis of Hamming/regular numbers on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_number) and finds there is quite an exact relationship between 'n', the sequence number, and the logarithmic magnitude of the resulting Hamming number, and that the error term is directly proportional to the logarithm of that output number. This means that only the band of Hamming values as wide of this error and including the estimated value need to be generated, and that we need only iterate over two of the three prime exponents, thus O(n^(2/3)) time complexity and O(n^(1/3)) space complexity. The following code was adapted from [an article in DDJ](http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/hamming-problem/228700538) and the Haskell code with the further refinements to decrease the memory requirements as described above:

Translation of: Haskell

<lang rust>extern crate num; // requires dependency on the num library use num::bigint::BigUint;

use std::time::Instant;

fn nth_hamming(n: u64) -> (u32, u32, u32) {

   if n < 2 {
       if n <= 0 { panic!("nth_hamming: argument is zero; no elements") }
       return (0, 0, 0) // trivial case for n == 1
   }
   let lg3 = 3.0f64.ln() / 2.0f64.ln(); // log base 2 of 3
   let lg5 = 5.0f64.ln() / 2.0f64.ln(); // log base 2 of 5
   let fctr = 6.0f64 * lg3 * lg5;
   let crctn = 30.0f64.sqrt().ln() / 2.0f64.ln(); // log base 2 of sqrt 30
   let lgest = (fctr * n as f64).powf(1.0f64/3.0f64)
                   - crctn; // from WP formula
   let frctn = if n < 1000000000 { 0.509f64 } else { 0.105f64 };
   let lghi = (fctr * (n as f64 + frctn * lgest)).powf(1.0f64/3.0f64)
                   - crctn; // calculate hi log limit based on log(N) - WP article
   let lglo = 2.0f64 * lgest - lghi; // and a lower limit of the upper "band"
   let mut count = 0; // need to use extended precision, might go over
   let mut bnd = Vec::with_capacity(0);
   let klmt = (lghi / lg5) as u32 + 1;
   for k in 0 .. klmt { // i, j, k values can be just u32 values
       let p = k as f64 * lg5;
       let jlmt = ((lghi - p) / lg3) as u32 + 1;
       for j in 0 .. jlmt {
           let q = p + j as f64 * lg3;
           let ir = lghi - q;
           let lg = q + (ir as u32) as f64; // current log value (estimated)
           count += ir as u64 + 1;
           if lg >= lglo {
               bnd.push((lg, (ir as u32, j, k)))
           }
       }
   }
   if n > count { panic!("nth_hamming: band high estimate is too low!") };
   let ndx = (count - n) as usize;
   if ndx >= bnd.len() { panic!("nth_hamming: band low estimate is too high!") };
   bnd.sort_by(|a, b| b.0.partial_cmp(&a.0).unwrap()); // sort decreasing order
   bnd[ndx].1

}

fn convert_log2big(o: (u32, u32, u32)) -> BigUint {

   let two = BigUint::from(2u8);
   let three = BigUint::from(3u8);
   let five = BigUint::from(5u8);
   let (x2, x3, x5) = o;
   let mut ob = BigUint::from(1u8); // convert to BigUint at the end
   for _ in 0 .. x2 { ob = ob * &two }
   for _ in 0 .. x3 { ob = ob * &three }
   for _ in 0 .. x5 { ob = ob * &five }
   ob

}

fn main() {

   print!("[");
   for (i, h) in (1 .. 21).map(nth_hamming).enumerate() {
       if i != 0 { print!(",") }
       print!(" {}", convert_log2big(h))
   }
   println!(" ]");
   println!("{}", convert_log2big(nth_hamming(1691)));
   let strt = Instant::now();
   let rslt = nth_hamming(1000000);
   let elpsd = strt.elapsed();
   let secs = elpsd.as_secs();
   let millis = (elpsd.subsec_nanos() / 1000000)as u64;
   let dur = secs * 1000 + millis;
   
   println!("2^{} times 3^{} times 5^{}", rslt.0, rslt.1, rslt.2);
   let rs = convert_log2big(rslt).to_str_radix(10);
   let mut s = rs.as_str();
   println!("{} digits:", s.len());
   let lg3 = 3.0f64.log2();
   let lg5 = 5.0f64.log2();
   let lg = (rslt.0 as f64 + rslt.1 as f64 * lg3
           + rslt.2 as f64 * lg5) * 2.0f64.log10();
   println!("Approximately {}E+{}", 10.0f64.powf(lg.fract()), lg.trunc());
   if s.len() <= 10000 {
       while s.len() > 100 {
           let (f, r) = s.split_at(100);
           s = r;
           println!("{}", f);
       }
       println!("{}", s);
   }
   println!("This last took {} milliseconds.", dur);

}</lang>

[ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36 ]
2125764000
2^55 times 3^47 times 5^64
84 digits:
Approximately 5.193127804483804E+83
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
This last took 0 milliseconds.

The above code takes too little time to calculate the millionth Hamming numbers to be measured (as seen above), calculates the billionth number in under 10 milliseconds, calculates the trillionth in less than a second, and the thousand trillionth (10^15) in just over a minute (72 seconds). The answers are likely correct as they are the same to a trillion as the equivalent Haskell program, although this version is much faster due to no garbage collection (the Haskell version spends about half its time garbage collecting) and doing the calculations using loops and array/vector accesses rather than the lazy list processing used in the Haskell version. The program should be able to determine the 10^19th hamming number in a few hours and can't quite find the 2^64th (18446744073709551615th) Hamming number due to a slight overflow near the limit.

The above code uses the library vector sort capabilities; custom sorting versions could be written but with the reduced array size, sorting is a very small percentage of the execution time and maximum space requirements are only a few 10's of Megabytes so that neither the time nor the space used for sorting are a concern.

Note that I'm not knocking Haskell, just that (as here) many Haskell programmers like to use lazy list processing which has its costs; the Haskell version could be re-written to use arrays and functional loops and likely be about the same speed although perhaps not as concise. By simply converting the Haskell program to force strictness and to use this same method of determining the width of the upper band, the Haskell program would have the same time and space complexity as here, but would still be a constant factor of almost eight times slower due to the list processing (with a constant factor for extra space as well). Use of a mutable array or vector would solve that, but unfortunately not as easily as here as there would be the question of "unboxed" versus "boxed" arrays/vectors, and the complexities of implementing the (faster) unboxed type in which to sort the band - in short, not as easy as here in Rust.

Scala

<lang scala>class Hamming extends Iterator[BigInt] {

 import scala.collection.mutable.Queue
 val qs = Seq.fill(3)(new Queue[BigInt])
 def enqueue(n: BigInt) = qs zip Seq(2, 3, 5) foreach { case (q, m) => q enqueue n * m }
 def next = {
   val n = qs map (_.head) min;
   qs foreach { q => if (q.head == n) q.dequeue }
   enqueue(n)
   n
 }
 def hasNext = true
 qs foreach (_ enqueue 1)

}</lang> However, the usage of closures adds a significant amount of time. The code below, though a bit uglier because of the repetitions, is twice as fast: <lang scala>class Hamming extends Iterator[BigInt] {

 import scala.collection.mutable.Queue
 val q2 = new Queue[BigInt]
 val q3 = new Queue[BigInt]
 val q5 = new Queue[BigInt]
 def enqueue(n: BigInt) = {
   q2 enqueue n * 2
   q3 enqueue n * 3
   q5 enqueue n * 5
 }
 def next = {
   val n = q2.head min q3.head min q5.head
   if (q2.head == n) q2.dequeue
   if (q3.head == n) q3.dequeue
   if (q5.head == n) q5.dequeue
   enqueue(n)
   n
 }
 def hasNext = true
 List(q2, q3, q5) foreach (_ enqueue 1)

}</lang> Usage:

scala> new Hamming take 20 toList
res87: List[BigInt] = List(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36)

scala> new Hamming drop 1690 next
res88: BigInt = 2125764000

scala> new Hamming drop 999999 next
res89: BigInt = 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

There's also a fairly mechanical translation from Haskell using purely functional lazy streams

Translation of: Haskell

<lang scala>val hamming : Stream[BigInt] = {

  def merge(inx : Stream[BigInt], iny : Stream[BigInt]) : Stream[BigInt] = {
     if (inx.head < iny.head) inx.head #:: merge(inx.tail, iny) else 
     if (iny.head < inx.head) iny.head #:: merge(inx, iny.tail) else
     merge(inx, iny.tail)
  }
  1 #:: merge(hamming map (_ * 2), merge(hamming map (_ * 3), hamming map (_ * 5)))

}</lang> Use of "force" ensures that the stream is computed before being printed, otherwise it would just be left suspended and you'd see "Stream(1, ?)"

scala> (hamming take 20).force
res0: scala.collection.immutable.Stream[BigInt] = Stream(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36)

To get the nth code find the n-1th element because indexes are 0 based

scala> hamming(1690)
res1: BigInt = 2125764000

To calculate the 1000000th code I had to increase the JVM heap from the default

scala> hamming(999999)
res2: BigInt = 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Translation of Haskell code avoiding duplicates

One can fix the problems of the memory use of the above code resulting from the entire stream being held in memory due to the use a "val hamming: Stream[BigInt]" by using a function "def hamming(): Stream[BigInt]" and making temporary local variables for intermediate streams so that the beginnings of the streams are garbage collected as the output stream is consumed; one can also implement the other Haskell algorithm to avoid factor duplication by building each stream on successive streams, again with memory conserved by building the least dense first: <lang scala> def hamming(): Stream[BigInt] = {

   def merge(a: Stream[BigInt], b: Stream[BigInt]): Stream[BigInt] = {
     if (a.isEmpty) b else {
       val av = a.head; val bv = b.head
       if (av < bv) av #:: merge(a.tail, b)
       else bv #:: merge(a, b.tail) } }
   def smult(m:Int, s: Stream[BigInt]): Stream[BigInt] =
     (m * s.head) #:: smult(m, s.tail) // equiv to map (m *) s; faster
   def u(s: Stream[BigInt], n: Int): Stream[BigInt] = {
     lazy val r: Stream[BigInt] = merge(s, smult(n, 1 #:: r))
     r }
   1 #:: List(5, 3, 2).foldLeft(Stream.empty[BigInt]) { u } }</lang>

Usage:

scala> hamming() take 20 force
res0: scala.collection.immutable.Stream[BigInt] = Stream(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 36)

scala> hamming() drop 1690 head
res1: BigInt = 2125764000

scala> hamming() drop 999999 head
res2: BigInt = 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

It only takes under a half second to find the millionth number in the sequence in the last output.

Scheme

<lang scheme>(define-syntax lons

 (syntax-rules ()
   ((_ lar ldr) (delay (cons lar (delay ldr))))))

(define (lar lons)

 (car (force lons)))

(define (ldr lons)

 (force (cdr (force lons))))

(define (lap proc . llists)

 (lons (apply proc (map lar llists)) (apply lap proc (map ldr llists))))

(define (take n llist)

 (if (zero? n)
     (list)
     (cons (lar llist) (take (- n 1) (ldr llist)))))

(define (llist-ref n llist)

 (if (= n 1)
     (lar llist)
     (llist-ref (- n 1) (ldr llist))))

(define (merge llist-1 . llists)

 (define (merge-2 llist-1 llist-2)
   (cond ((null? llist-1) llist-2)
         ((null? llist-2) llist-1)
         ((< (lar llist-1) (lar llist-2))
          (lons (lar llist-1) (merge-2 (ldr llist-1) llist-2)))
         ((> (lar llist-1) (lar llist-2))
          (lons (lar llist-2) (merge-2 llist-1 (ldr llist-2))))
         (else (lons (lar llist-1) (merge-2 (ldr llist-1) (ldr llist-2))))))
 (if (null? llists)
     llist-1
     (apply merge (cons (merge-2 llist-1 (car llists)) (cdr llists)))))

(define hamming

 (lons 1
       (merge (lap (lambda (x) (* x 2)) hamming)
              (lap (lambda (x) (* x 3)) hamming)
              (lap (lambda (x) (* x 5)) hamming))))

(display (take 20 hamming)) (newline) (display (llist-ref 1691 hamming)) (newline) (display (llist-ref 1000000 hamming)) (newline)</lang>

Output:
(1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36)
2125764000
out of memory

Avoiding Generation of Duplicates, including reduced memory use

Translation of: Haskell

Although the algorithm above is true to the classic Dijkstra version and although the algorithm does require a form of lazy list/stream processing in order to utilize memoization and avoid repeated recalculations/comparisons, the stream implementation can be simplified, and the modified algorithm as per the Haskell code avoids duplicate generations of factors. As well, the following code implements the algorithm as a procedure/function so that it restarts the calculation from the beginning on every new call and so that internal stream variables are not top level so that the garbage collector can collect the beginning of all intermediate and final streams when they are no longer referenced; in this way total memory used (after interspersed garbage collections) is almost zero for a sequence of the first million numbers. Note that Scheme R5RS does not define "map" or "foldl" functions, so these are provided (a simplified "smult" which is faster than using map for this one purpose): <lang scheme>(define (hamming)

 (define (foldl f z l)
   (define (foldls zs ls)
     (if (null? ls) zs (foldls (f zs (car ls)) (cdr ls))))
   (foldls z l))
 (define (merge a b)
   (if (null? a) b
     (let ((x (car a)) (y (car b)))
       (if (< x y) (cons x (delay (merge (force (cdr a)) b)))
                   (cons y (delay (merge a (force (cdr b)))))))))
 (define (smult m s) (cons (* m (car s)) ;; equiv to map (* m) s; faster
            (delay (smult m (force (cdr s))))))
 (define (u s n) (letrec ((a (merge s (smult n (cons 1 (delay a)))))) a))
 (cons 1 (delay (foldl u '() '(5 3 2)))))
test...

(define (stream-take->list n strm)

 (if (= n 0) (list) (cons (car strm) 
   (stream-take->list (- n 1) (force (cdr strm))))))

(define (stream-ref strm nth)

 (do ((nxt strm (force (cdr nxt))) (cnt 0 (+ cnt 1)))
     ((>= cnt nth) (car nxt))))

(display (stream-take->list 20 (hamming))) (newline) (display (stream-ref (hamming) (- 1691 1))) (newline) (display (stream-ref (hamming) (- 1000000 1))) (newline)</lang>

Output:
{1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36}
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

The "stream-ref" procedure is zero based as is the Scheme standard for array indices, thus the subtraction of one from the desired nth number in the sequence.

Seed7

<lang seed7>$ include "seed7_05.s7i";

 include "bigint.s7i";

const func bigInteger: min (in bigInteger: a, in bigInteger: b, in bigInteger: c) is func

 result
   var bigInteger: min is 0_;
 begin
   if a < b then
     min := a;
   else
     min := b;
   end if;
   if c < min then
     min := c;
   end if;
 end func;

const func bigInteger: hamming (in integer: n) is func

 result
   var bigInteger: hammingNum is 1_;
 local
   var array bigInteger: hammingNums is 0 times 0_;
   var integer: index is 0;
   var bigInteger: x2 is 2_;
   var bigInteger: x3 is 3_;
   var bigInteger: x5 is 5_;
   var integer: i is 1;
   var integer: j is 1;
   var integer: k is 1;
 begin
   hammingNums := n times 1_;
   for index range 2 to n do
     hammingNum := min(x2, x3, x5);
     hammingNums[index] := hammingNum;
     if x2 = hammingNum then
       incr(i);
       x2 := 2_ * hammingNums[i];
     end if;
     if x3 = hammingNum then
       incr(j);
       x3 := 3_ * hammingNums[j];
     end if;
     if x5 = hammingNum then
       incr(k);
       x5 := 5_ * hammingNums[k];
     end if;
   end for;
 end func;

const proc: main is func

 local
   var integer: n is 0;
 begin
   for n range 1 to 20 do
     write(hamming(n) <& " ");
   end for;
   writeln;
   writeln(hamming(1691));
   writeln(hamming(1000000));
 end func;</lang>
Output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36 
2125764000
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Sidef

<lang ruby>func ham_gen {

   var s = [[1], [1], [1]];
   var m = [2, 3, 5];
   func {
       var n = [s[0][0], s[1][0], s[2][0]].min;
       for i in (0..2) {
           s[i].shift if (s[i][0] == n);
           s[i].append(n * m[i]);
       }
       return n
   }

}

var h = ham_gen();

var i = 20; say i.of { h() }.join(' ');

range(i+1, 1691-1).each { h() } say h();</lang>

Output:
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36
2125764000

Smalltalk

Works with: GNU Smalltalk

This is a straightforward implementation of the pseudocode snippet found in the Python section. Smalltalk supports arbitrary-precision integers, but the implementation is too slow to try it with 1 million. <lang smalltalk>Object subclass: Hammer [

 Hammer class >> hammingNumbers: howMany [
   |h i j k x2 x3 x5| 
     h := OrderedCollection new.
     i := 0. j := 0. k := 0.
     h add: 1.
     x2 := 2. x3 := 2. x5 := 5.
     [ ( h size) < howMany ] whileTrue: [
       |m|
       m := { x2. x3. x5 } sort first.
       (( h indexOf: m ) = 0) ifTrue: [ h add: m ].
       ( x2 = (h last) ) ifTrue: [ i := i + 1. x2 := 2 * (h at: i) ].
       ( x3 = (h last) ) ifTrue: [ j := j + 1. x3 := 3 * (h at: j) ].
       ( x5 = (h last) ) ifTrue: [ k := k + 1. x5 := 5 * (h at: k) ]. 
     ].
     ^ h sort
 ]

].

(Hammer hammingNumbers: 20) displayNl. (Hammer hammingNumbers: 1690) last displayNl.</lang>

Works with: Pharo Smalltalk

<lang smalltalk> limit := 10 raisedToInteger: 84. tape := Set new.

hammingProcess := [:newHamming| (newHamming <= limit) ifTrue: [| index | index := tape scanFor: newHamming. (tape array at: index) ifNil: [tape atNewIndex: index put: newHamming asSetElement. hammingProcess value: newHamming * 2. hammingProcess value: newHamming * 3. hammingProcess value: newHamming * 5]]].

hammingProcess value: 1.

sc := tape asSortedCollection. sc first: 20. "a SortedCollection(1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 15 16 18 20 24 25 27 30 32 36)" sc at: 1691. "2125764000" sc at: 1000000. "519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" </lang>

Tcl

This uses coroutines to simplify the description of what's going on.

Works with: Tcl version 8.6

<lang tcl>package require Tcl 8.6

  1. Simple helper: Tcl-style list "map"

proc map {varName list script} {

   set l {}
   upvar 1 $varName v
   foreach v $list {lappend l [uplevel 1 $script]}
   return $l

}

  1. The core of a coroutine to compute the product of a hamming sequence.
  2. Tricky bit: we don't automatically advance to the next value, and instead
  3. wait to be told that the value has been consumed (i.e., is the result of
  4. the [yield] operation).

proc ham {key multiplier} {

   global hammingCache
   set i 0
   yield [info coroutine]
   # Cannot use [foreach]; that would take a snapshot of the list in
   # the hammingCache variable, so missing updates.
   while 1 {

set n [expr {[lindex $hammingCache($key) $i] * $multiplier}] # If the number selected was ours, we advance to compute the next if {[yield $n] == $n} { incr i }

   }

}

  1. This coroutine computes the hamming sequence given a list of multipliers.
  2. It uses the [ham] helper from above to generate indivdual multiplied
  3. sequences. The key into the cache is the list of multipliers.
  4. Note that it is advisable for the values to be all co-prime wrt each other.

proc hammingCore args {

   global hammingCache
   set hammingCache($args) 1
   set hammers [map x $args {coroutine ham$x,$args ham $args $x}]
   yield
   while 1 {

set n [lindex $hammingCache($args) [incr i]-1] lappend hammingCache($args) \ [tcl::mathfunc::min {*}[map h $hammers {$h $n}]] yield $n

   }

}

  1. Assemble the pieces so as to compute the classic hamming sequence.

coroutine hamming hammingCore 2 3 5

  1. Print the first 20 values of the sequence

for {set i 1} {$i <= 20} {incr i} {

   puts [format "hamming\[%d\] = %d" $i [hamming]]

} for {} {$i <= 1690} {incr i} {set h [hamming]} puts "hamming{1690} = $h" for {} {$i <= 1000000} {incr i} {set h [hamming]} puts "hamming{1000000} = $h"</lang>

Output:
hamming{1} = 1
hamming{2} = 2
hamming{3} = 3
hamming{4} = 4
hamming{5} = 5
hamming{6} = 6
hamming{7} = 8
hamming{8} = 9
hamming{9} = 10
hamming{10} = 12
hamming{11} = 15
hamming{12} = 16
hamming{13} = 18
hamming{14} = 20
hamming{15} = 24
hamming{16} = 25
hamming{17} = 27
hamming{18} = 30
hamming{19} = 32
hamming{20} = 36
hamming{1690} = 2123366400
hamming{1000000} = 519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

A faster version can be built that also works on Tcl 8.5 (or earlier, if only small hamming numbers are being computed): <lang tcl>variable hamming 1 hi2 0 hi3 0 hi5 0 proc hamming {n} {

   global hamming hi2 hi3 hi5
   set h2 [expr {[lindex $hamming $hi2]*2}]
   set h3 [expr {[lindex $hamming $hi3]*3}]
   set h5 [expr {[lindex $hamming $hi5]*5}]
   while {[llength $hamming] < $n} {

lappend hamming [set h [expr { $h2<$h3  ? $h2<$h5 ? $h2 : $h5  : $h3<$h5 ? $h3 : $h5 }]] if {$h==$h2} { set h2 [expr {[lindex $hamming [incr hi2]]*2}] } if {$h==$h3} { set h3 [expr {[lindex $hamming [incr hi3]]*3}] } if {$h==$h5} { set h5 [expr {[lindex $hamming [incr hi5]]*5}] }

   }
   return [lindex $hamming [expr {$n - 1}]]

}

  1. Print the first 20 values of the sequence

for {set i 1} {$i <= 20} {incr i} {

   puts [format "hamming\[%d\] = %d" $i [hamming $i]]

} puts "hamming{1690} = [hamming 1690]" puts "hamming{1691} = [hamming 1691]" puts "hamming{1692} = [hamming 1692]" puts "hamming{1693} = [hamming 1693]" puts "hamming{1000000} = [hamming 1000000]"</lang>

uBasic/4tH

uBasic's single array does not have the required size to calculate the 1691st number, let alone the millionth. <lang>For H = 1 To 20

 Print "H("; H; ") = "; Func (_FnHamming(H))

Next

End

_FnHamming Param (1)

 @(0) = 1
 X = 2 : Y = 3 : Z = 5
 I = 0 : J = 0 : K = 0
 For N = 1 To a@ - 1
   M = X
   If M > Y Then M = Y
   If M > Z Then M = Z
   @(N) = M
   If M = X Then I = I + 1 : X = 2 * @(I)
   If M = Y Then J = J + 1 : Y = 3 * @(J)
   If M = Z Then K = K + 1 : Z = 5 * @(K)
 Next

Return (@(a@-1))</lang>

Output:
H(1) = 1
H(2) = 2
H(3) = 3
H(4) = 4
H(5) = 5
H(6) = 6
H(7) = 8
H(8) = 9
H(9) = 10
H(10) = 12
H(11) = 15
H(12) = 16
H(13) = 18
H(14) = 20
H(15) = 24
H(16) = 25
H(17) = 27
H(18) = 30
H(19) = 32
H(20) = 36

0 OK, 0:379

UNIX Shell

Works with: ksh93

Large numbers are not supported. <lang bash>typeset -a hamming=(1) function nextHamming {

   typeset -Sa q2 q3 q5
   integer h=${hamming[${#hamming[@]}-1]}
   q2+=( $(( h*2 )) )
   q3+=( $(( h*3 )) )
   q5+=( $(( h*5 )) )
   h=$( min3 ${q2[0]} ${q3[0]} ${q5[0]} )
   (( ${q2[0]} == h )) && ashift q2 >/dev/null
   (( ${q3[0]} == h )) && ashift q3 >/dev/null
   (( ${q5[0]} == h )) && ashift q5 >/dev/null
   hamming+=($h)

}

function ashift {

   nameref ary=$1
   print -- "${ary[0]}"
   ary=( "${ary[@]:1}" )

}

function min3 {

   if (( $1 < $2 )); then
       (( $1 < $3 )) && print -- $1 || print -- $3
   else
       (( $2 < $3 )) && print -- $2 || print -- $3
   fi

}

for ((i=1; i<=20; i++)); do

   nextHamming
   printf "%d\t%d\n" $i ${hamming[i-1]}

done for ((; i<=1690; i++)); do nextHamming; done nextHamming printf "%d\t%d\n" $i ${hamming[i-1]} print "elapsed: $SECONDS"</lang>

Output:
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	8
8	9
9	10
10	12
11	15
12	16
13	18
14	20
15	24
16	25
17	27
18	30
19	32
20	36
1690	2125764000
elapsed: 0.568

Ursala

Smooth is defined as a second order function taking a list of primes and returning a function that takes a natural number to the -th smooth number with respect to them. An elegant but inefficient formulation based on the J solution is the following. <lang Ursala>#import std

  1. import nat

smooth"p" "n" = ~&z take/"n" nleq-< (rep(length "n") ^Ts/~& product*K0/"p") <1></lang> This test program <lang Ursala>main = smooth<2,3,5>* nrange(1,20)</lang> yields this list of the first 20 Hamming numbers.

<1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15,16,18,20,24,25,27,30,32,36>

Although all calculations are performed using unlimited precision, the version above is impractical for large numbers. A more hardcore approach is the following. <lang Ursala>#import std

  1. import nat

smooth"p" "n" =

~&H\"p" *-<1>; @NiXS ~&/(1,1); ~&ll~="n"->lr -+

  ^\~&rlPrrn2rrm2Zlrrmz3EZYrrm2lNCTrrm2QAX*rhlPNhrnmtPA2XtCD ~&lrPrhl2E?/~&l ^|/successor@l ~&hl,
  ^|/~& nleq-<&l+ * ^\~&r ~&l|| product@rnmhPX+-
  1. cast %nL

main = smooth<2,3,5>* nrange(1,20)--<1691,1000000></lang>

Output:

The great majority of time is spent calculating the millionth Hamming number.

<
   1,
   2,
   3,
   4,
   5,
   6,
   8,
   9,
   10,
   12,
   15,
   16,
   18,
   20,
   24,
   25,
   27,
   30,
   32,
   36,
   2125764000,
   519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000>

VBScript

Translation of: BBC BASIC

<lang vb> For h = 1 To 20 WScript.StdOut.Write "H(" & h & ") = " & Hamming(h) WScript.StdOut.WriteLine Next WScript.StdOut.Write "H(" & 1691 & ") = " & Hamming(1691) WScript.StdOut.WriteLine

Function Hamming(l) Dim h() : Redim h(l) : h(0) = 1 i = 0 : j = 0 : k = 0 x2 = 2 : x3 = 3 : x5 = 5 For n = 1 To l-1 m = x2 If m > x3 Then m = x3 End If If m > x5 Then m = x5 End If h(n) = m If m = x2 Then i = i + 1 : x2 = 2 * h(i) End If If m = x3 Then j = j + 1 : x3 = 3 * h(j) End If If m = x5 Then k = k + 1 : x5 = 5 * h(k) End If Next Hamming = h(l-1) End Function </lang>

Output:
H(1) = 1
H(2) = 2
H(3) = 3
H(4) = 4
H(5) = 5
H(6) = 6
H(7) = 8
H(8) = 9
H(9) = 10
H(10) = 12
H(11) = 15
H(12) = 16
H(13) = 18
H(14) = 20
H(15) = 24
H(16) = 25
H(17) = 27
H(18) = 30
H(19) = 32
H(20) = 36
H(1691) = 2125764000

zkl

<lang zkl>var BN=Import("zklBigNum"); // only needed for large N fcn hamming(N){

  h:=List.createLong(N+1); (0).pump(N+1,h.write,Void); // fill list with stuff
  h[0]=1;
  1. if 1 // regular (64 bit) ints
  x2:=2; x3:=3; x5:=5; i:=j:=k:=0;
  1. else // big ints
  x2:=BN(2); x3:=BN(3); x5:=BN(5); i:=j:=k:=0;
  1. endif
  foreach n in ([1..N]){
     z:=(x2<x3) and x2 or x3; z=(z<x5) and z or x5; h[n]=z;
     if (h[n] == x2) { x2 = h[i+=1]*2 }
     if (h[n] == x3) { x3 = h[j+=1]*3 }
     if (h[n] == x5) { x5 = h[k+=1]*5 }
  }
  return(h[N-1])

} [1..20].apply(hamming).println(); hamming(1691).println();</lang>

Output:
L(1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15,16,18,20,24,25,27,30,32,36)
2125764000

While the other algorithms save [lots of] space, run time still sucks when n > 100,000 so memory usage might as well too. Change the #if 0 to 1 and

Output:
hamming(0d1_000_000).println();
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Direct calculation through triples enumeration

OK, I was wrong, calculating the nth Hamming number can be fast and efficient.

Translation of: Haskell

as direct a translation as I can, except using a nested for loop instead of list comprehension (which makes it easier to keep the count).

<lang zkl>

  1. -- directly find n-th Hamming number, in ~ O(n^{2/3}) time
  2. -- by Will Ness, based on "top band" idea by Louis Klauder, from DDJ discussion
  3. -- http://drdobbs.com/blogs/architecture-and-design/228700538

var BN=Import("zklBigNum"); var lg3 = (3.0).log()/(2.0).log(), lg5 = (5.0).log()/(2.0).log(); fcn logval(i,j,k){ lg5*k + lg3*j + i } fcn trival(i,j,k){ BN(2).pow(i) * BN(3).pow(j) * BN(5).pow(k) } fcn estval(n){ (6.0*lg3*lg5*n).pow(1.0/3) } #-- estimated logval, base 2 fcn rngval(n){

  if(n > 500000) return(2.4496 , 0.0076);	#-- empirical estimation 
  if(n > 50000)  return(2.4424 , 0.0146);	#--   correction, base 2
  if(n > 500)	  return(2.3948 , 0.0723);	#--     (dist,width)
  if(n > 1)	  return(2.2506 , 0.2887);	#-- around (log $ sqrt 30), 

return(2.2506 , 0.5771); #-- says WP }

fcn nthHam(n){ // -> (Double, (Int, Int, Int)) #-- n: 1-based: 1,2,3...

 d,w := rngval(n);				#-- correction dist, width
 hi  := estval(n.toFloat()) - d;		#--   hi > logval > hi-w
 c,b := band(hi,w);				#-- total count, the band
 s   := b.sort(fcn(a,b){ a[0]>b[0] });		#-- sorted decreasing, result
 m   := c - n;					#-- m 0-based from top
 nb  := b.len();				#-- |band|
 res := s[m];					#-- result
 if(w >= 1) throw(Exception.Generic("Breach of contract: (w < 1):  " + w));
 if(m <  0) throw(Exception.Generic("Not enough triples generated: " +c+n));
 if(m >= nb)throw(Exception.Generic("Generated band is too narrow: " +m+nb));
 return(res);

}

fcn band(hi,w){ //--> #-- total count, the band

  b := Sink(List); cnt := 0;
  foreach k in ([0 .. (hi/lg5).floor()]){        p := lg5*k;
     foreach j in ([0 .. ((hi-p)/lg3).floor()]){ q := lg3*j + p;
        i,frac := (hi-q).modf(); r := hi-frac;		#-- r = i + q

cnt+=(i+1); #-- total count if(frac<w) b.write(T(r,T(i,j,k))); #-- store it, if inside band

     }
  }
  return(cnt,b.close());

}</lang> <lang>fcn printHam(n){

  r,t:=nthHam(n); i,j,k:=t; h:=trival(i,j,k);
  println("Hamming(%,d)-->2^%d * 3^%d * 5^%d-->\n%s".fmt(n,i,j,k,h));

}

printHam(1691); //(5,12,3), 10 digits printHam(0d1_000_000); //(55,47,64), 84 digits printHam(0d10_000_000); //(80,92,162), 182 digits, 80 zeros at end printHam(0d1_000_000_000); //(1334,335,404), 845 digits</lang>

Output:
Hamming(1,691)-->2^5 * 3^12 * 5^3-->
2125764000
Hamming(1,000,000)-->2^55 * 3^47 * 5^64-->
519312780448388736089589843750000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Hamming(10,000,000)-->2^80 * 3^92 * 5^162-->
162441050638304318232392153117595750351085388205966408633356724833252116013682098127901554107666015625 <80 zeros>
Hamming(1,000,000,000)-->2^1334 * 3^335 * 5^404-->
621607575556524486163081633287207200394705651908965270659163240.......

ZX Spectrum Basic

Translation of: BBC_BASIC

<lang zxbasic>10 FOR h=1 TO 20: GO SUB 1000: NEXT h 20 LET h=1691: GO SUB 1000 30 STOP 1000 REM Hamming 1010 DIM a(h) 1030 LET a(1)=1: LET x2=2: LET x3=3: LET x5=5: LET i=1: LET j=1: LET k=1 1040 FOR n=2 TO h 1050 LET m=x2 1060 IF m>x3 THEN LET m=x3 1070 IF m>x5 THEN LET m=x5 1080 LET a(n)=m 1090 IF m=x2 THEN LET i=i+1: LET x2=2*a(i) 1100 IF m=x3 THEN LET j=j+1: LET x3=3*a(j) 1110 IF m=x5 THEN LET k=k+1: LET x5=5*a(k) 1120 NEXT n 1130 PRINT "H(";h;")= ";a(h) 1140 RETURN </lang>