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Need help in understanding an example of recursion
From: |
Nikos Apostolakis |
Subject: |
Need help in understanding an example of recursion |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:09:19 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
Hello group,
I was browsing the source code of SAGE, and I tried to implement in
elisp the function that computes all the partitions of an integer n.
So I did the following:
(defun nea-partitions (n)
"Return a list with all partitions of the integer n."
(if (= n 0)
'(nil)
(nea-next-partitions (nea-partitions (- n 1)))))
(defun nea-next-partitions (lst)
(append (mapcar (lambda (x) (cons 1 x)) lst)
(dolist (elt (reverse lst) value)
(when (and elt
(or (= (length elt) 1)
(> (car elt) (cadr elt))))
(setq value (cons (cons (1+ (car elt)) (cdr elt))
value))))))
But this doesn't work:
(nea-partitions 0)
=> (nil)
(nea-partitions 1)
=> ((1))
(nea-partitions 2)
=> ((1 1) (2))
(nea-partitions 3)
=> (1 1 1) (1 2) (3) (2))
(nea-next-partitions '((1 1) (2)))
=> ((1 1 1) (1 2) (3))
(nea-next-partitions (nea-partitions 2))
=> ((1 1 1) (1 2) (3) (2))
Is there some subtle[0] point about recursion that I am missing?
Any help in understanding this will be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Nikos
[0] for my level of understanding at least.
- Need help in understanding an example of recursion,
Nikos Apostolakis <=