Perl Weekly Challenge 157: numbers
It is sad that, after more than two years of me doing Raku, I still don’t have any production code project to work on. Therefore, in order to keep my coding and Raku-ing (is that a term?) knowdledge, I try to solve every Perl Weekly Challenge tasks.In the following, the assigned tasks for Challenge 157.
and for the sake of some Perl 5, let’s do some stuff also in PostgreSQL Pl/Perl:
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Yes, I’ve Covid-19 and I’m still at home, but I’m fine!PWC 157 - Task 1
Really simple, just three lines of code:sub MAIN( *@n where { @n.elems > 0 && @n.grep( * ~~ Int ) == @n.elems } ) {
my $am = @n.sum / @n.elems;
my $gm = ( [*] @n ) ** ( 1 / @n.elems.Rat );
my $hm = @n.elems / @n.map( 1/* ).sum;
"AM = $am GM = $gm HM = $hm".say;
}
The only interesting part is the
HM computed by means of re-mapping the @n array into its reverse values.
PWC 157 - Task 2
This was about finding Brazilian numbers, those number that have one other base less than the number itself expressed by means of a single symbol. I used aBag to store the count of the symbols, after having converted the number into another base, and then look for a single key.
sub MAIN( Int $n where { $n > 1 }, Bool :$verbose = True ) {
for ( 2 .. $n - 2 ) {
my $bag = $n.base( $_ ).comb.Bag;
'1'.say and exit if $bag.keys.elems == 1;
}
'0'.say;
}
Therefore I convert the number into the current base by means of the
base method, then I extract the array of symbols by means of comb and convert them into a Bag. Last, if the number of keys of the bag is one, then a single digit was used.
PWC 157 - Task 1 in PostgreSQL
A pure Perl implementation using three different functions:CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS pwc157;
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
pwc157.am( int[] )
RETURNS numeric
AS $CODE$
my $counter = 0;
my $sum = 0;
for my $elem ( @{ $_[0] } ) {
$counter++;
$sum += $elem;
}
return $sum / $counter;
$CODE$
LANGUAGE plperl;
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
pwc157.gm( int[] )
RETURNS numeric
AS $CODE$
my $counter = 0;
my $mul = 1;
for my $elem ( @{ $_[0] } ) {
$counter++;
$mul *= $elem;
}
return $mul ** ( 1 / $counter );
$CODE$
LANGUAGE plperl;
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
pwc157.hm( int[] )
RETURNS numeric
AS $CODE$
my $counter = 0;
my $sum = 0;
my @n = map { 1 / $_ } @{ $_[0] };
for my $elem ( @n ) {
$counter++;
$sum += $elem;
}
return $counter / $sum;
$CODE$
LANGUAGE plperl;
Nothing really fancy here: I loop over the array passed as argument, and that is an iterable object in PL/Perl, and count and sum/multiply/
map the values.
PWC 157 - Task 2 in PostgreSQL
Here I used a couple of extenral Perl modules, so I need forplperlu. I used a base covnerter module, but since it does not allow for every numeric base, I had to check for exceptions. This means the PL/Perl implementation is not as accurate as the Raku counterpart. However, the idea is pretty similar:
- I convert the number and extract (by means of
split) every symbol; - I count for the symbols occurencies;
- if there is only one symbol, than the number looks good, otherwise it does not.
CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS pwc157;
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
pwc157.brazilian( int )
RETURNS int
AS $CODE$
use Math::Base::Convert;
use Syntax::Keyword::Try;
for my $base ( 2 .. $_[0] - 1 ) {
elog( DEBUG, "Base $base " );
try {
my $bc = Math::Base::Convert->new( 10, $base );
my $n = $bc->cnv( $_[0] );
elog( DEBUG, "Converted value $_[0] -> $n in base $base" );
my @digits = split( //, $n );
my %symbols;
for my $d (@digits) {
$symbols{ $d }++;
}
my $seen = 0;
for my $k ( keys %symbols ) {
$seen++ if $symbols{ $k } > 0;
}
return 1 if $seen == 1;
} catch {
elog( DEBUG, "Exception");
next;
}
}
return 0;
$CODE$
LANGUAGE plperlu;