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Haskell solution to Project Euler #14 (now with IOUArray, earlier with State)
module Main where
import Data.List (maximumBy)
import Data.Word (Word64)
import Data.Array.IO (IOUArray, newArray, readArray, writeArray, unsafeFreeze)
import Data.Array.Unboxed (UArray)
import Data.Array.IArray (assocs)
import Control.Monad (forM_)
type Cache = IOUArray Word64 Word64
size :: Word64
size = 1000000
collatz :: Cache -> Word64 -> IO Word64
collatz array n
| n > size = (+1) `fmap` collatz array (next n)
| otherwise = do
cached <- readArray array n
case cached of
0 -> do
len <- collatz array (next n)
let len' = len + 1
writeArray array n len'
return len'
len ->
return len
next :: Word64 -> Word64
next x | even x = div x 2
| otherwise = 3 * x + 1
main :: IO ()
main = do
arr <- newArray (1, size) 0
writeArray arr 1 1
forM_ [1 .. size] (collatz arr)
frozen <- unsafeFreeze arr :: IO (UArray Word64 Word64)
print . fst . maximumBy (\(_, v1) (_, v2) -> compare v1 v2) . assocs $ frozen
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