Hamming numbers

Question

Given a positive integer, print that many hamming numbers, in order.

Rules:

• Input will be a positive integer \$n \le 1,000,000 \$
• Output should be the first n terms of https://oeis.org/A051037
• Execution time must be < 1 minute
• This is code-golf; shortest code wins

Answer 1

Haskell, 101 97 92+|n| characters

h=1:m 2h&m 3h&m 5h
m=map.(*)
c@(a:b)&o@(m:n)|a<m=a:b&o|a>m=m:c&n|0<1=a:b&n
main=print$take 1000000h

Computes the full million in 3.7s on the machine I tested on (variably more if you actually want the output stored)

Ungolfed:

-- print out the first million Hamming numbers
main = print $ take 1000000 h

-- h is the entire Hamming sequence.
-- It starts with 1; for each number in the
-- sequence, 2n, 3n and 5n are also in.
h = 1 : (m 2 h) & (m 3 h) & (m 5 h)

-- helper: m scales a list by a constant factor
m f xs = map (f*) xs

-- helper: (&) merges two ordered sequences
a@(ha:ta) & b@(hb:tb)
    |    ha < hb = ha : ta & b
    |    ha > hb = hb :  a & tb
    |  otherwise = ha : ta & tb

All Haskell is notoriously good at: defining a list as a lazy function of itself, in a way that actually works.

Answer 2

Python 181 Characters

h=[]        
h.append(1)
n=input()
i=j=k=0
while n:
    print h[-1]
    while h[i]*2<=h[-1]:
        i+=1
    while h[j]*3<=h[-1]:
        j+=1
    while h[k]*5<=h[-1]:
        k+=1
    h.append(min(h[i]*2,h[j]*3,h[k]*5))
    n-=1

Answer 3

APL (Dyalog Classic), 34 23 bytes

{⍺⍴{⍵[⍋⍵]}∪,⍵∘.×⍳5}⍣≡∘1

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TIO throws a WS FULL error for \$n = 1000000\$, but Dyalog on my laptop runs in about 45 seconds, not counting the scrolling to display numbers.

{⍺⍴{⍵[⍋⍵]}∪,⍵∘.×⍳5}⍣≡∘1     Monadic function:
{⍺⍴{⍵[⍋⍵]}∪,⍵∘.×⍳5}         Define the following helper function g(⍺,⍵):
             ⍵∘.×⍳5             Make a multiplication table between ⍵ and (1 2 3 4 5).
                                (Including 4 is unnecessary but saves bytes.)
            ,                   Flatten the table into an array.
           ∪                    Keep unique elements.
    {⍵[⍋⍵]}                     Grade up the array and access it at those indices.
                                (This is the APL idiom to sort an array.)
 ⍺⍴                             Keep the first ⍺ elements; pad by repeating the array.
{⍺⍴{⍵[⍋⍵]}∪,⍵∘.×⍳5}⍣≡       Repeatedly apply g with some fixed left argument
                             until a fixed point is reached.
                             At this point we have a dyadic function that takes
                             n on the left and the starting value on the right,
                             and returns multiples of the n Hamming numbers.
                      ∘1     Fix 1 as the right argument.

Answer 4

Ruby - 154 231 characters

def k i,n;(l=Math).log(i,2)*l.log(i,3)*l.log(i,5)/6>n end
def l i,n;k(i,n)?[i]:[i]+l(5*i,n)end
def j i,n;k(i,n)?[i]:[i]+j(3*i,n)+l(5*i,n)end
def h i,n;k(i,n)?[i]:[i]+h(2*i,n)+j(3*i,n)+l(5*i,n)end
puts h(1,n=gets.to_i).sort.first n

And now it's fast enough, there is definitely a lot of golfing that can still happen though.

→ time echo 1000000 | ruby golf-hamming.rb | wc
1000000 1000000 64103205
echo 1000000  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.003 total
ruby golf-hamming.rb  40.39s user 0.81s system 99% cpu 41.229 total
wc  1.58s user 0.05s system 3% cpu 41.228 total

Answer 5

Perl, 94 chars (but too slow)

use List::Util min;
$\=$/;$h{1}=();delete$h{$_=min keys%h},print,@h{$_*2,$_*3,$_*5}=()for 1..<>

Ungolfed:

use List::Util 'min';
my %hamming;
my $up_to = <>;
$hamming{1} = (); # The value is undef, but the key exists!
for (1 .. $up_to) {
    my $next = min( keys %hamming );
    delete $hamming{$next}; # We're done with this one
    print $next, "\n";
    @hamming{ $next * 2, $next * 3, $next * 5 } = (); # Create keys for the multiples
} # Rinse, repeat

Takes 11 minutes to compute the first 100,000 numbers, and I don't even want to think about 1,000,000. It gets the first 10,000 done in a tidy 3 seconds; it's just something resembling O(n^2) :(

Answer 6

Mathematica, 54 bytes

Sort[1##&@@@({2,3,5}^#&/@Tuples[0~Range~#,3])]~Take~#&

Inefficient but short pure function. Calculates all products of the form 2^i * 3^j * 5^k for 0 <= i, j, k <= # (# is the first argument to the function), then Sorts them and Takes only the first #.

Answer 7

Haskell, 71

h n = drop n $ iterate (\(_,(a:t))-> (a,union t [2*a,3*a,5*a])) (0,[1])

Output

*Main> map fst $ take 20 $ h 1
[1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15,16,18,20,24,25,27,30,32,36]

Answer 8

Ursala, 103

#import std
#import nat
smooth"p" "n" = ~&z take/"n" nleq-< (rep(length "n") ^Ts/~& product*K0/"p") <1>

Output for main = smooth<2,3,5>* nrange(1,20)

<1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15,16,18,20,24,25,27,30,32,36>

Answer 9

Japt, 15 bytes

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If Jo King's approach is considered valid.

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