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Haskell solution to TopCoder's BestApproximationDiv2 problem
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import Data.Char | |
import Data.List | |
import Data.Maybe | |
showResult :: (Int, Int, Int) -> String | |
showResult (a, b, x) = show a ++ "/" ++ show b ++ " has " | |
++ show x ++ " exact digits" | |
compareDigits :: [Int] -> [Int] -> Ordering | |
compareDigits xs [] = EQ | |
compareDigits (x:xs) (y:ys) = case compare x y of | |
EQ -> compareDigits xs ys | |
order -> order | |
toDigit :: Char -> Int | |
toDigit c = ord c - ord '0' | |
preciseDivision :: Int -> Int -> [Int] | |
preciseDivision a b = div a' b : preciseDivision (mod a' b) b | |
where a' = 10 * a | |
estimate :: [Int] -> Double | |
estimate = sum . zipWith (flip (/)) (iterate (*10) 10) . | |
map fromIntegral | |
bestNumerator :: [Int] -> Double -> Int -> Maybe Int | |
bestNumerator ds p b = | |
case find atLeast . map (pair ds b) $ [pivot .. ] of | |
Just (a, EQ) -> Just a | |
otherwise -> Nothing | |
where pivot = truncate $ p * fromIntegral b | |
pair ds b a = (a, compareDigits (preciseDivision a b) ds) | |
atLeast (a, order) = order /= LT | |
bestResult :: Int -> [Int] -> Maybe (Int, Int, Int) | |
bestResult n ds = fromMaybe Nothing . find isJust . | |
map (toResult ds $ estimate ds) $ [1..n] | |
where toResult ds p b = case bestNumerator ds p b of | |
Just a -> Just (a, b, 1 + length ds) | |
Nothing -> Nothing | |
findFraction' :: Int -> [Int] -> (Int, Int, Int) | |
findFraction' n = fromJust . last . takeWhile isJust . | |
map (bestResult n) . inits | |
findFraction :: Int -> String -> String | |
findFraction n = showResult . findFraction' n . | |
map toDigit . tail . tail |
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