FP Laboratory 2

Types

• Using the GHCi command :info, learn the type of the following functions (and operators): +, sqrt, succ, max
• Get the information about the data type of following expressions and evaluate them. it is possible using the command :type. You can switch this option on for all commands by :set +t (removing by :unset +t).

5 + 8 
3 * 5 + 8
2 + 4
sqrt 16 
succ 6
succ 7
pred 9
pred 8
sin (pi / 2)
truncate pi
round 3.5
round 3.4 
floor 3.7 
ceiling 3.3
mod 10 3
odd 3

• At presentations, we have spoken about some basic types: Int, Double, Bool, Char. For each of previous expressions assign them the most appropriate of these basic data types. You can verify your guess by using ::. For example, for the first expression, lets assume it is Int. We can cast the result to integer and get following result.

Prelude> :type (5 + 8) :: Int
(5 + 8) :: Int :: Int

If we try incorrect conversion to Char, we get the following result.

Prelude> :type (5 + 8) :: Char

<interactive>:1:2: error:
    * No instance for (Num Char) arising from a use of `+'
    * In the expression: (5 + 8) :: Char

For this particular expression, also the type Double works.

Prelude> :type (5 + 8) :: Double
(5 + 8) :: Double :: Double

Simple functions

Implement following functions:

• Function that computes a factorial of given number.

factorial :: Int -> Int

• Function that computes n-th number in fibonacci sequence.

fib :: Int -> Int

• Function that checks if a year is a leap-year (divisible without remainder by 4, if it is not divisible by 100. If it is divisible by 400, it is a leap-year).

leapYear :: Int -> Bool

• Implement two functions that returns a maximum from 2 respectively 3 given parameters.

max2 :: Int -> Int -> Int
max3 :: Int -> Int -> Int -> Int

• Term combination is a selection of items from a collection, such that (unlike permutations) the order of selection does not matter. Compute the number of possible combinations if we are taking k things from the collection of n things.

combinations :: Int -> Int -> Int

• Implement a function that computes the number of solutions for a quadratic equation. This quadratic equation will be given using standard coefficients:a, b, c.

numberOfSolutions:: Int -> Int -> Int -> Int

• Implement a function that computes greatest common divider for two given numbers.

gcd :: Int -> Int -> Int