My function and rounding to nearest even number
function y = rndeven(x)
if x<=1
y=2;
else
y = 2*floor(x);
end
endfunction
When I run it I get:
cc=[0:3]'
both=[cc,rndeven(cc)]
0 0
1 2
2 4
3 6
What I'm trying to get as the Result:
0 2
1 2
2 2
3 4
You can use the modulo 2 to find whether a number is even. If it isn't this will return 1, so just add 1 to this number to find the nearest (larger) even number:
function y = rndeven(x)
x = floor(x);
x(x <= 1) = 2;
y = mod(x,2)+x;
end
This works for any array, order of elements does not matter.
You could also check if it is dividable by 2 if you don't want to use the mod function. The pseudo code would be something like this:
while(x % 2 != 0) x = x + 1
return x
Related
I have a series of values that are each being stored as UInt16. Each of these numbers represents a bitmask - these numbers are commands that have been sent to a microprocessor telling it which pins to set high or low. I would like to parse this arrow of commands to find out which pins were being set high each time in such a way that is easier to analyse later.
Consider the example value 0x3c00, which in decimal is 15360 and in binary is 0011110000000000. Currently I have the following function
function read_message(hex_rep)
return findall.(x -> x .== '1',bitstring(hex_rep))
end
Which gets called on every element of the array of UInt16. Is there a better/more efficient way of doing this?
The best approach probably depends on how you want to handle vectors of hex-values. But here's an approach for processing a single hex which is much faster than the one in the OP:
function readmsg(x::UInt16)
N = count_ones(x)
inds = Vector{Int}(undef, N)
if N == 0
return inds
end
k = trailing_zeros(x)
x >>= k + 1
i = N - 1
inds[N] = n = 16 - k
while i >= 1
(x, r) = divrem(x, 0x2)
n -= 1
if r == 1
inds[i] = n
i -= 1
end
end
return inds
end
I can suggest padding your vector into a Vector{UInt64} and use that to manually construct a BitVector. The following should mostly work (even for input element types other than UInt16), but I haven't taken into account specific endianness you might want to respect:
julia> function read_messages(msgs)
bytes = reinterpret(UInt8, msgs)
N = length(bytes)
nchunks, remaining = divrem(N, sizeof(UInt64))
padded_bytes = zeros(UInt8, sizeof(UInt64) * cld(N, sizeof(UInt64)))
copyto!(padded_bytes, bytes)
b = BitVector(undef, N * 8)
b.chunks = reinterpret(UInt64, padded_bytes)
return b
end
read_messages (generic function with 1 method)
julia> msgs
2-element Vector{UInt16}:
0x3c00
0x8000
julia> read_messages(msgs)
32-element BitVector:
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
⋮
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
julia> read_messages(msgs) |> findall
5-element Vector{Int64}:
11
12
13
14
32
julia> bitstring.(msgs)
2-element Vector{String}:
"0011110000000000"
"1000000000000000"
(Getting rid of the unnecessary allocation of the undef bit vector would require some black magic, I belive.)
Im trying to cycle through certain rows in my excel spreadsheet. for the first group im trying to cycle through every 3 rows to see if its hidden and for the second for loop I am stepping through every 2. I basically want to add whats true through both loops and return that value. the "Return y" part is giving me an error.
Function FindHiddenRows() As Integer
Dim x As Integer
Dim y As Integer
y = 0
For x = 23 To 38 Step 3
If Rows("x:x").EntireRow.Hidden = False Then
y = y + 1
End If
Next x
For x = 40 To 46 Step 2
If Rows("x:x").EntireRow.Hidden = False Then
y = y + 1
End If
Next x
Return y
End Function
to make it fast / short / easy:
Function FindHiddenRows() As Byte
Dim x As Byte, y As Byte
For x = 22 To 46 Step 2
If x < 38 Then x = x + 1
If Not Rows(x).Hidden Then y = y + 1
Next
FindHiddenRows = y
End Function
I am new to programming and I would like to know how to solve questions like this. I was told to expect questions like this on the exam. Can someone please tell me how I would go about solving something like this? Thanks.
x = 0
for num in range(5):
if num % 2 == 0:
x = x + 2
else:
x = x + 1
print(x)
You need to work on a skill which is to "be the compiler", in the sense that you should be able to run code in your head. Step through line by line and make sure you know what is happening. In you code example, you have
for num in range(5) means you will be iterating with num being 0,1,2,3 and 4. Inside the for loop, the if statement num % 2 == 0 is true when num/2 does not have a remainder (how % mods work). So if the number is divisible by 2, x = x+2 will execute. The only numbers divisible by 2 from the for loop are 0,2 and 4. so x=x+2 will execute twice. The else statement x = x +1 runs for all other numbers (1,3) which will execute 2 times.
Stepping through the for loop:
num = 0 //x=x+2, x is now 2
num = 1 //x=x+1, x is now 3, print(x) prints 3
num = 2 //x=x+2, x is now 5
num = 3 //x=x+1, x is now 6, print(x) prints 6
num = 4 //x+x+2, x is now 8
Therefore the answer is that 3 and 6 will be printed
In my opinion,
Whatever language you are using, you need to learn some common elements of the modern programming languages, such as flow-control (if...else in your case), loop(for, in your case)
Some common used functions, in your case, you need to what does range do in Python,
docs.python.org is a good place for you.
As you are new to programming, you can go with the flow in you mind or draw it on the paper.
Using x to store our final result
loop through every item in [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] <- range(5)
a. if
the number is divisible by 2
then increase x by adding 2 to it.
b. else
increase x by adding 1 and print it out
So the result would be :
3
6
fact :: Int -> Int
fact n
|n < 0 = 0
|n == 0 = 1
|n > 0 && n `mod` 2 == 1 = fact (n-1) * n
|n > 0 && n `mod` 2 == 0 = n-1
When I enter an odd number for example: fact 5 will give 15, as it should 1 * 3 * 5 = 15. However I realized that if I do fact 7 or any other odd number, it only multiplies the first two odd numbers. How do I get the function to multiply all the odd numbers and not just the first 2. Eg. fact 7 = 35 (ie. 3 * 5). Also note, that if an even number is entered, it will work out the factorial of all the odd numbers up until and not including the even number.
This reminds me of the famous Evolution of a Haskell Programmer. Paraphrasing the tenured professor's answer:
factorialOfOdds :: Integer -> Integer
factorialOfOdds n = product [1,3..n]
You're problem is that your case for an even number is n-1, which means that when you get to an odd number you're really just doing
n * (n - 1 - 1)
When what you want is
n * n-2 * n-4 ...
So try this instead
fact :: Integer -> Integer -- Overflows
fact n
|n < 0 = 0
|n == 0 || n == 1 = 1
|n `mod` 2 == 1 = fact (n-2) * n
|n `mod` 2 == 0 = fact (n-1)
I also took the liberty of removing some redundant logic. Here we decrement by two if it's odd, so 5 -> 3. And in the even case we decrement by one to end up on an odd number and that recurse on that.
I've been tasked with writing MIPS instruction code for the following formula:
f(n) = 3 f(n-1) + 2 f(n-2)
f(0) = 1
f(1) = 1
I'm having issues understanding what the formula actually means.
From what I understand we are passing an int n to the doubly recursive program.
So for f(0) the for would the equation be:
f(n)=3*1(n-1) + 2*(n-2)
If n=10 the equation would be:
f(10)=3*1(10-1) + 2*(10-2)
I know I'm not getting this right at all because it wouldn't be recursive. Any light you could shed on what the equation actually means would be great. I should be able to write the MIPS code once I understand the equation.
I think it's a difference equation.
You're given two starting values:
f(0) = 1
f(1) = 1
f(n) = 3*f(n-1) + 2*f(n-2)
So now you can keep going like this:
f(2) = 3*f(1) + 2*f(0) = 3 + 2 = 5
f(3) = 3*f(2) + 2*f(1) = 15 + 2 = 17
So your recursive method would look like this (I'll write Java-like notation):
public int f(n) {
if (n == 0) {
return 1;
} else if (n == 1) {
return 1;
} else {
return 3*f(n-1) + 2*f(n-2); // see? the recursion happens here.
}
}
You have two base cases:
f(0) = 1
f(1) = 1
Anything else uses the recursive formula. For example, let's calculate f(4). It's not one of the base cases, so we must use the full equation. Plugging in n=4 we get:
f(4) = 3 f(4-1) + 2 f(4-2) = 3 f(3) + 2 f(2)
Hm, not done yet. To calculate f(4) we need to know what f(3) and f(2) are. Neither of those are base cases, so we've got to do some recursive calculations. All right...
f(3) = 3 f(3-1) + 2 f(3-2) = 3 f(2) + 2 f(1)
f(2) = 3 f(2-1) + 2 f(2-2) = 3 f(1) + 2 f(0)
There we go! We've reached bottom. f(2) is defined in terms of f(1) and f(0), and we know what those two values are. We were given those, so we don't need to do any more recursive calculations.
f(2) = 3 f(1) + 2 f(0) = 3×1 + 2×1 = 5
Now that we know what f(2) is, we can unwind our recursive chain and solve f(3).
f(3) = 3 f(2) + 2 f(1) = 3×5 + 2×1 = 17
And finally, we unwind one more time and solve f(4).
f(4) = 3 f(3) + 2 f(2) = 3×17 + 2×5 = 61
No, I think you're right and it is recursive. It seems to be a variation of the Fibonacci Sequence, a classic recursive problem
Remember, a recursive algorithm has 2 parts:
The base case
The recursive call
The base case specifies the point at which you cannot recurse anymore. For example, if you are sorting recursively, the base case is a list of length 1 (since a single item is trivially sorted).
So (assuming n is not negative), you have 2 base cases: n = 0 and n = 1. If your function receives an n value equal to 0 or 1, then it doesn't make sense to recurse anymore
With that in mind, your code should look something like this:
function f(int n):
#check for base case
#if not the base case, perform recursion
So let's use Fibonacci as an example.
In a Fibonacci sequence, each number is the sum of the 2 numbers before it. So, given the sequence 1, 2 the next number is obviously 1 + 2 = 3 and the number after that is 2 + 3 = 5, 3 + 5 = 8 and so on. Put generically, the nth Fibonacci number is the (n - 1)th Fibonacci Number plus the (n - 2)th Fibonacci Number, or f(n) = f(n - 1) + f(n - 2)
But where does the sequence start? This is were the base case comes in. Fibonacci defined his sequence as starting from 1, 1. This means that for our pruposes, f(0) = f(1) = 1. So...
function fibonacci(int n):
if n == 0 or n == 1:
#for any n less than 2
return 1
elif n >= 2:
#for any n 2 or greater
return fibonacci(n-1) + fibonacci(n-2)
else:
#this must n < 0
#throw some error
Note that one of the reasons Fibonacci is taught along with recursion is because it shows that sometimes recursion is a bad idea. I won't get into it here but for large n this recursive approach is very inefficient. The alternative is to have 2 global variables, n1 and n2 such that...
n1 = 1
n2 = 1
print n1
print n2
loop:
n = n1 + n2
n2 = n1
n1 = n
print n
will print the sequence.