[Haskell-beginners] strange behaviour : computing lowest divisor

[Abhijit Ray]

Thanks, that seems to have fixed it.

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Lyndon Maydwell <maydwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Try with Integer rather than Int. Might be an overflow issue...
>
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Abhijit Ray <avizit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > HI,
> > I have written(copied) a small piece of code which finds the lowest
> divisor
> > of am integer (greater than 1)
> >
> > the code is here
> >
> > ld::Int->Int
> > ld n = ld' 2 n
> >        where
> >   ld' i n | rem n i == 0 = i
> >                  | i^2 > n = n
> >                  | otherwise = ld' (i+1) n
> >
> >
> > now it seems to work fine for small numbers but for a big number we get
> >
> > *Main> ld 278970415063349480483707695
> > 7
> >
> > the number is obviously divisible by 5 , so where is the anomaly ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Abhijit
> > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm trying to understand the technique referred to as "tying the knot",
> >> but documentation on the internet seems to be much sparser and more
> obtuse
> >> than I like.
> >>
> >> So I'm asking here.
> >>
> >> As far as I understand, "tying the knot" refers to a way of using
> laziness
> >> to implement something like references in a purely functional way.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to write a toy simulation:
> >> I have a population :: [Person]
> >> I want to collect a random subset of possible pairs of distinct people.
> >> So I go to each person in the population and select a subset of the
> people
> >> after him/her in the list; these are pairs in which s/he is the first
> >> element.
> >>
> >> I want to then be able to ask for all pairs in which a person is the
> first
> >> or the second element.  I could give each person a unique id, but it
> seems
> >> like tying the knot is a valid way to implement this.
> >>
> >> Please correct me if I am misunderstanding.
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> >> --
> >>           Alex R
> >>
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