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;;this works until you pass in ridiculously large numbers | |
;; the for loop lets me try all of the numbers in the collection with each other | |
(defn find-the-pairs [n] | |
"takes an upper bound and returns all the pairs of numbers where | |
(* x y) equals the sum of the entire collection without x and y | |
(find-the-pairs 26) => [[15 21] [21 15]] | |
" | |
(let [coll (take n (iterate inc 1)) | |
coll-sum (apply + coll)] | |
(reduce | |
(fn [result [num1 num2]] | |
(if (= (- coll-sum (+ num1 num2)) (* num1 num2)) | |
(conj result [num1 num2]) | |
result)) | |
[] (for [i coll j coll] [i j])))) | |
;;this version works on ridiculously large numbers | |
(defn find-the-pairs2 [^long n] | |
(let [^long coll-sum (/ (* n (inc n)) 2) | |
pair? (fn [i] (let [j (/ (- coll-sum i) (+ i 1))] (when (and (not (ratio? j)) | |
(<= j n) | |
(not= i j)) [i (long j)])))] | |
(vec (remove nil? (map pair? (range 1 (inc n))))))) | |
;;this is the best version returns in nanoseconds on values over 1 million | |
(defn find-the-pairs3 [^long n] | |
(let [^long coll-sum (/ (* n (inc n)) 2) | |
valid-pair? (fn [i] (let [j (/ (- coll-sum i) (+ i 1))] (when (and (not (ratio? j)) | |
(<= j n) | |
(not= i j)) [i j])))] | |
(keep valid-pair? (range 1 (inc n))))) |
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