[Haskell-beginners] Repeat function application x times?

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:11:39PM -0800, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Is there a convenient stock function in prelude/base that applies a
> function to a single value x number of times and returns the result?
> (I.e., does not return a list, but the final value.) Something like
> 
> applyN :: Integral b => (a -> a) -> b -> a -> a
> 
> Honestly I looked through the base hierarchy and at hoogle but I am
> missing it.

I'm not sure there is one, but it's rather simple to build one out of
`iterate` and `!!`.

/M

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