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Add recipe for totient() to demonstrate unique_justseen() and factor(…
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rhettinger committed Dec 14, 2023
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if n > 1:
yield n

def totient(n):
"Count of natural numbers up to n that are coprime to n."
# https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TotientFunction.html
# totient(12) --> 4 because len([1, 5, 7, 11]) == 4
for p in unique_justseen(factor(n)):
n = n // p * (p - 1)
return n

def nth_combination(iterable, r, index):
"Equivalent to list(combinations(iterable, r))[index]"
pool = tuple(iterable)
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>>> all(list(factor(n)) == sorted(factor(n)) for n in range(2_000))
True

>>> totient(0) # https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=totient+0
0
>>> first_totients = [1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 2, 6, 4, 6, 4, 10, 4, 12, 6, 8, 8, 16, 6,
... 18, 8, 12, 10, 22, 8, 20, 12, 18, 12, 28, 8, 30, 16, 20, 16, 24, 12, 36, 18,
... 24, 16, 40, 12, 42, 20, 24, 22, 46, 16, 42, 20, 32, 24, 52, 18, 40, 24, 36,
... 28, 58, 16, 60, 30, 36, 32, 48, 20, 66, 32, 44] # https://oeis.org/A000010
...
>>> list(map(totient, range(1, 70))) == first_totients
True
>>> reference_totient = lambda n: sum(math.gcd(t, n) == 1 for t in range(1, n+1))
>>> all(totient(n) == reference_totient(n) for n in range(1000))
True
>>> totient(128_884_753_939) == 128_884_753_938 # large prime
True
>>> totient(999953 * 999983) == 999952 * 999982 # large semiprime
True
>>> totient(6 ** 20) == 1 * 2**19 * 2 * 3**19 # repeated primes
True

>>> list(flatten([('a', 'b'), (), ('c', 'd', 'e'), ('f',), ('g', 'h', 'i')]))
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i']

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