-- -- The primes 3, 7, 109, and 673, are quite remarkable. -- By taking any two primes and concatenating them in any order the result will always be prime. -- For example, taking 7 and 109, both 7109 and 1097 are prime. -- The sum of these four primes, 792, represents the lowest sum for a set of four primes with this property. -- -- Find the lowest sum for a set of five primes for which any two primes concatenate to produce another prime. -- -- Should use the following property -- [x,y,z,t] special <=> [x,y,z] & [x,y,t] & [x,z,t] & [y,z,t] special import Debug.Trace import Data.List import Prime is_couple_prime x y = ( is_prime $ read $ strx ++ stry ) && (is_prime $ read $ stry ++ strx) where strx = show x stry = show y first_concat_prime_with_list x [] = True first_concat_prime_with_list x (y:ys) = is_couple_prime x y && first_concat_prime_with_list x ys -- are_concat_primes [3,7,109,673] return true if number are primes -- even with concat are_concat_primes [] = True are_concat_primes (x:xs) = (are_concat_primes xs) && first_concat_prime_with_list x xs nb_elements=4 -- n=5 max=5 -> 12345 -- n=5 max=6 -> 12346, 12356, 12456, 13456, 23456 -- n=5 max=7 -> 12347, 12357, 12367, 12457, 12467... -- n=1 max=1 -> 1 -- n=1 max=2 -> 2 -- n=1 max=3 -> 3 -- -- n=2 max=2 -> 12 -- n=2 max=3 -> 13, 23 -- n=2 max=4 -> 14, 24, 34 -- n=2 max=5 -> 15, 26, 35, 45 -- -- n=3 max=3 -> 123 -- n=3 max=4 -> 124, 134, 234 -- n=3 max=5 -> 125, 135, 235, 145, 245, 345 (n=2,max=2 ; n=2,max=3 ; n=2,max=4)++[5] combination :: (Ord a) => Int -> a -> [a] -> [[a]] combination 0 max list = [] combination n max (x:xs@(y:ys)) | x>max = [] | n==1 && x<=max && y>max = [[x]] | otherwise = ( map (\z -> x:z) $ combination (n-1) max xs ) ++ combination n max xs all_combinations n xs = foldr (++) [] $ map (\i -> traceShow i combination n (xs!!i) xs) [(n-1)..] special_numbers 1 = primes special_numbers n = nub $ flatten $ filter are_concat_primes $ all_combinations n $ special_numbers (n-1) where flatten [] = [] flatten ([]:ys) = flatten ys flatten ((x:xs):ys) = x:(flatten ((xs):ys) ) main = do -- putStrLn $ show $ are_concat_primes [3,7,109,673] -- putStrLn $ show $ are_concat_primes [3,7,19,673] -- putStrLn $ show $ combination 5 5 [1..] -- putStrLn $ show $ take 40 $ all_combinations 5 primes putStrLn $ show $ result -- putStrLn ( "sum: " ++ (show $ sum result)) where result = take 1 $ filter (\x -> traceShow x are_concat_primes [3,7,109,673,x]) primes