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467 Eric Normand Newsletter

Unfriendly neighors

Let's say we have a sequence of integers:

[1 3 2 4 1]

There are 4 spots between numbers where we could insert a new number (represented by commas):

[1 ,, 3 ,, 2 ,, 4 ,, 1]
;; ^    ^    ^    ^
;; |    |    |    spot 3.5, between 3 and 
;; |    |    spot 2.5, between 2 and 3
;; |    spot 1.5, between 1 and 2
;; spot 0.5, between 0 and 1

We can represent those spots as halves, such as 0.5.

We only want to insert numbers when they are "happy". Odd numbers are happy when we insert them next to at least one odd number. Even numbers are happy when we insert them next to at least one even number.

Write a function that takes a sequence of integers and an integer. It should return the happy spots and the unhappy spots.

(spots [1 1]     1) ;=> {:happy [0.5]                   }
(spots [1 1]     2) ;=> {                 :unhappy [0.5]}
(spots [1 1 2]   4) ;=> {:happy [1.5]     :unhappy [0.5]}
(spots [1 1 2 2] 3) ;=> {:happy [0.5 1.5] :unhappy [2.5]}

Note: Inserting a number may make pre-existing numbers unhappy. Ignore them!

Thanks to this site for the problem idea, where it is rated Very Hard in Ruby. The problem has been modified.

Please submit your solutions as comments on this gist.

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@JonathanHarford
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(defn spots [neighborhood neighbor]
  (->> neighborhood
       (map #(even? (+ neighbor %)))
       (partition 2 1)
       (map-indexed (fn [i [x y]]
                      {(if (or x y) :happy :unhappy) [(+ 0.5 i)] }))
       (apply merge-with concat)))

@Altariarite
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(defn happy?
  "odd/even: happy with at least one odd/even"
  [neighbours num]
  (cond
    (and (even? num) (some even? neighbours)) :happy
    (and (odd? num) (some odd? neighbours)) :happy
    :else :unhappy))

(defn spots
  "takes a sequence of integers and an integer. return the happy spots and the unhappy spots."
  [seq num]
  (->>
   (partition 2 1 seq)
   (map-indexed (fn [idx e]
                  {(happy? e num) [(+ 0.5 idx)]}))
   (apply merge-with into)))

@KingCode
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(defn spots [xs n]
  (let [pred (if (odd? n) odd? even?)]
    (->> xs (partition 2 1)
         (map-indexed vector)
         (reduce (fn [m [i part]]
                   (update m (if (some pred part)
                               :happy
                               :unhappy)
                           conj 
                           (+ i 0.5)))
                 {:happy [] :unhappy []}))))

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