[racket] Generative recursion

Wow, I came up with a really weird solution then, based on the fact that
append "eats" occurrences of empty: (append empty empty empty empty (list
4)) is (list 4).  I divided input by a copy of itself inside a call to
append, then looped with (sub1 input), returning empty if input/(sub1
modified-input) wasn't a divisor, else (list input).  It's really not a
generative solution, just a confusing structural one.

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 06:16, Jos Koot <jos.koot at telefonica.net> wrote:

>  Luke, you'd better ignore my third approach and follow the instructions
> of Todd.
> My method is far more difficult to implement than Todd's methods.
> Jos
>
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> *From:* users-bounces at racket-lang.org [mailto:
> users-bounces at racket-lang.org] *On Behalf Of *Jos Koot
> *Sent:* 05 November 2010 12:06
> *To:* 'Todd O'Bryan'; lukejordan at gmail.com
>
> *Cc:* users at racket-lang.org
> *Subject:* Re: [racket] Generative recursion
>
>  Actually there is one more way. We only have to check numbers 1 up to the
> integer-sqrt of n. For each check whose remainder is 0, we immediately have
> two divisors, the checking number and the quotient (except when these two
> are equal, giving one divisor only -this happens only when n is a square-))
>
> Jos
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