Am Sonntag 29 März 2009 19:40:19 schrieb michael rice: > Hi, > > Thanks again for the help last night. > > The second function cf2 is an attempt to reverse the process of the first > function, i.e., given a rational number it returns a list of integers, > possibly infinite,
Not for rational numbers. > but you shouldn't get into trouble if you use 98%67 as > input (output should be [1,2,6,5]). The interpreter is complaining about > the '=' following the 'in' keyword. That should be '=='. > Is there a better way to state this? > > Michael > > import Data.Ratio > cf :: [Int] -> Rational > cf (x:[]) = toRational x > cf (x:xs) = toRational x + 1 / cf xs > > cf2 :: Rational -> [Int] > cf2 a = let ai = toRational (floor ((numerator a) / (denominator a))) > in > if a = ai > then [a] > else ai : cf2 ((toRational 1) / (subtract ai a)) import Data.List (unfoldr) cf3 :: Rational -> [Integer] -- Int may overflow cf3 0 = [0] cf3 x = a0:unfoldr f r where a0 = floor x r = x - fromInteger a0 f 0 = Nothing f y = Just (properFraction $ recip y) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe