Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Re: Period of a sequence

2011-06-27 Thread Luke Palmer
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Twan van Laarhoven wrote: > On 2011-06-27 13:51, Steffen Schuldenzucker wrote: > >> Could you specify what exactly the function is supposed to do? I am >> pretty sure that a function like >> >> seqPeriod :: (Eq a) => [a] -> Maybe Integer -- Nothing iff non-periodic

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Re: Period of a sequence

2011-06-27 Thread Twan van Laarhoven
On 2011-06-27 13:51, Steffen Schuldenzucker wrote: Could you specify what exactly the function is supposed to do? I am pretty sure that a function like seqPeriod :: (Eq a) => [a] -> Maybe Integer -- Nothing iff non-periodic cannot be written. What about sequences that can be specified in term

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Re: Period of a sequence

2011-06-27 Thread michael rice
Thanks, all. I have an evaluation copy of Mathematica and have been looking for problems to feed it. Michael --- On Mon, 6/27/11, Brent Yorgey wrote: From: Brent Yorgey Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Re: Period of a sequence To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Date: Monday, June 27, 2011, 9:56 AM

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Re: Period of a sequence

2011-06-27 Thread Brent Yorgey
I've attached some code I wrote a while ago for playing with repeating decimal expansions, perhaps you'll find some of it useful. -Brent On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 02:21:55PM +0200, Steffen Schuldenzucker wrote: > > Michael, > > On 06/27/2011 01:51 PM, Steffen Schuldenzucker wrote: > > > > Forward

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Re: Period of a sequence

2011-06-27 Thread Steffen Schuldenzucker
Michael, On 06/27/2011 01:51 PM, Steffen Schuldenzucker wrote: > > Forwarding to -cafe > > Original Message > Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Period of a sequence > Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:46:10 -0700 (PDT) > From: michael rice > To: Steffen Schuldenzucker > > Hi Steffen, > > R

[Haskell-cafe] Fwd: Re: Period of a sequence

2011-06-27 Thread Steffen Schuldenzucker
Forwarding to -cafe Original Message Subject:Re: [Haskell-cafe] Period of a sequence Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:46:10 -0700 (PDT) From: michael rice To: Steffen Schuldenzucker Hi Steffen, Repeating decimals. 5/7 == 0.714285 714285 7142857 ... Period = 6 I