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Finding tribonacci pseudoprimes
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-- A semi-fast isPrime algorithm | |
noDivs factors n = foldr (\f r -> f*f > n || (rem n f /= 0 && r)) | |
True factors | |
primesTD = 2 : 3 : filter (noDivs $ tail primesTD) [5,7..] | |
isPrime n = n > 1 && noDivs primesTD n | |
divides a b = b `mod` a == 0 | |
-- Computes the nth tribonacci-like number in O(n) time | |
trib n = | |
let iter a b c count = if count == n | |
then a | |
else iter (a+b+c) a b (count+1) | |
in case n of | |
0 -> 3 | |
1 -> 1 | |
2 -> 3 | |
otherwise -> iter 3 1 3 2 | |
-- Definition of what it means to be a tribonacci pseudoprime | |
pseudo n = (n `divides` (trib n - 1)) && (not (isPrime n)) | |
-- Dirty hackery: for n = 2,3,... print n if n is a tribonacci pseudoprime or n is a multiple of 1000 (to keep track of how much processing we've done) | |
findPseudos = map fst $ filter (\x -> (snd x == True) || 1000 `divides` fst x) $ zip [2..] (map pseudo [2..]) |
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