You can save a bit of time and space by deferring the conversion to

extended type:


On 11/03/2019 07:51, Eugene Nonko wrote:
Here's the solution I ended up using:

_&q:^:_1 >./ _ q: >: i. 10000x

Just factorize to prime exponents representation, find maximums and convert
back from prime exponent representation.

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 2:35 PM Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:

J's extended precision integer implementation is part of it. But
floating point numbers don't really work for this kind of problem for
anything longer than i.11

But, also, I imagine a part of this also might be that Haskell has
optimizations which improve performance of this kind of problem, which
we don't have in J.

Here's a J approach that gets the solution to this kind of problem a bit
faster:

lcmseq=:3 :0
   primes=. i.&.(p:inv) y
   maxsq=. 1+primes I.%:y
   */primes^x:1>.(#primes){.<.(maxsq{.primes)^.y
)

    lcmseq 100000x

6952838362417071970003075865264183883398742917680351135360275375615041442175021237506257986828602047763612877697876454892733660081058707575359683162985199273472095475166897891861381578830560627099383483382709560516260628624180504874681127372319705939469099...
    6!:2'lcmseq 100000x'
0.398073

I hope this helps,

--
Raul

--
Raul

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 5:10 PM james faure <james.fa...@epitech.eu>
wrote:
That, I suspect, can be blamed mostly on the abysmally slow extended
precision integers in J, and the fact that *. must manipulate these
extended precision integers more often than other verbs.
Indeed, If you remove the 'x', it runs extremely fast.
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From: Programming <programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com> on behalf
of Eugene Nonko <eno...@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 9:00 PM
To: programm...@jsoftware.com
Subject: [Jprogramming] LCM performance

I need to find the smallest number that divides all numbers from 1 to n.
The solution, of course is this:

*./ >: i. n

What I don't understand is why this solution seems to scale so poorly:

    6!:2 '*./ >: i.10000x'
0.326128
    6!:2 '*./ >: i.11000x'
1.00384
    6!:2 '*./ >: i.12000x'
4.133
    6!:2 '*./ >: i.13000x'
11.8082

When I perform similar calculation in Haskell it produces result in
negligible time, even when n = 100,000.

λ: foldr1 lcm [1 .. 100000]
695283836241707197000307586...

If I use a verb other than *. it runs very quickly, as expected.

What's so special about LCM?

Thanks,
Eugene
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