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FUNCTIONAL PEARL: Enumerating the rationals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2016

JEREMY GIBBONS ,
DAVID LESTER  and
RICHARD BIRD
JEREMY GIBBONS
Affiliation:
University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, UK [email protected], [email protected]
DAVID LESTER
Affiliation:
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK [email protected]
RICHARD BIRD
Affiliation:
University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, UK [email protected], [email protected]
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Every lazy functional programmer knows about the following approach to enumerating the positive rationals: generate a two-dimensional matrix (an infinite list of infinite lists), then traverse its finite diagonals (an infinite list of finite lists).

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Functional Pearls
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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , May 2006 , pp. 281 - 291
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2006 Cambridge University Press
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