-- Starting with 1 and spiralling anticlockwise in the following way, a square spiral with side length 7 is formed. -- -- 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 -- 38 17 16 15 14 13 30 -- 39 18 5 4 3 12 29 -- 40 19 6 1 2 11 28 -- 41 20 7 8 9 10 27 -- 42 21 22 23 24 25 26 -- 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 -- -- It is interesting to note that the odd squares lie along the bottom right diagonal, but what is more interesting is that 8 out of the 13 numbers lying along both diagonals are prime; that is, a ratio of 8/13 ≈ 62%. -- -- If one complete new layer is wrapped around the spiral above, a square spiral with side length 9 will be formed. If this process is continued, what is the side length of the square spiral for which the ratio of primes along both diagonals first falls below 10%? -- -- Reflexion: -- if n is the side length of the square spiral. The numbers at each 'coin' are -- -- 1 -> 1 -- 2 -> 3 5 7 9 -- 3 -> 13 17 21 25 -- ... -- -- The rule is -- (last_max_number + n.(size-1) | n in [1..4]) -- examples: -- last_max_number=1 -- size = 3 -- 1+2 = 3, 1+2*2=5, 1+3*2=7, 1+4*2=9 -- -- last_max_number=9 -- size=5 -- 9+4=13, 9+2*4=17, 9+3*4=21, 9+4*4=25 import Prime next_four_numbers :: (Num a) => a -> a -> [a] next_four_numbers n size = map (\p -> n + p*(size-1)) [1,2,3,4] nextState (prev,size) = (next_four_numbers (last prev) size, size+2) spiral = concat $ map fst $ iterate nextState ([1],3) diag_primes = map is_prime spiral ratio_func (x:xs) (p,q) = (p,q):(ratio_func xs b) where b = if x then (p+1,q+1) else (p,q+1) ratios = ratio_func diag_primes (0,0) takeNth n p (x:xs) = if n == p then x:takeNth n 1 xs else takeNth n (p+1) xs -- takeWhile (>0.1) (map fst $ takeNth 4 4 ratios) main = do -- putStrLn $ show $ firsts_spiral_numbers n putStrLn $ show $ take (4*n+1) spiral putStrLn $ show $ take (4*n+1) diag_primes putStrLn $ show $ take 10 $ takeNth 4 4 spiral -- putStrLn $ show $ tmp putStrLn $ show $ res putStrLn $ show $ ((res-1)/2) + 1 + 2 where n=3 rat=0.1 tmp = takeWhile (\(p,q) -> (q < 2) || (p/q > rat) ) $ takeNth 4 3 ratios (_,res) = last $ tmp