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{-
- Solution to Project Euler problem 71
- Copyright (c) Project Nayuki. All rights reserved.
-
- https://www.nayuki.io/page/project-euler-solutions
- https://github.com/nayuki/Project-Euler-solutions
-}
import Data.Ratio ((%), numerator)
import qualified EulerLib
{-
- We consider each (integer) denominator d from 1 to 1000000 by brute force.
- For a given d, what is the largest integer n such that n/d < 3/7?
-
- * If d is a multiple of 7, then the integer n' = (d / 7) * 3 satisfies n'/d = 3/7.
- Hence we choose n = n' - 1 = (d / 7) * 3 - 1, so that n/d < 3/7.
- Since (d / 7) * 3 is already an integer, it is equal to floor(d * 3 / 7),
- which will unifie with the next case. Thus n = floor(d * 3 / 7) - 1.
- * Otherwise d is not a multiple of 7, so choosing n = floor(d * 3 / 7)
- will automatically satisfy n/d < 3/7, and be the largest possible n
- due to the definition of the floor function.
-
- When we choose n in this manner, it might not be coprime with d. In other words,
- the simplified form of the fraction n/d might have a denominator smaller than d.
-
- Let's process denominators in ascending order. Each denominator generates a pair
- of integers (n, d) that conceptually represents a fraction, without simplification.
- Whenever the current value of n/d is strictly larger than the previously saved value,
- we save this current value of (n, d).
-
- If we handle denominators in this way - starting from 1, counting up consecutively -
- then it is guaranteed that our final saved pair (n, d) is in lowest terms. This is
- because if (n, d) is not in lowest terms, then its reduced form (n', d') would have
- been saved when the smaller denominator d' was processed, and because n/d is
- not larger than n'/d' (they are equal), the saved value would not be overwritten.
- Hence in this entire computation we can avoid explicitly simplifying any fraction at all.
-}
main = putStrLn (show ans)
ans = numerator $ foldl1 max [((div (d * 3) 7) - (EulerLib.boolToInt ((mod d 7) == 0))) % d | d <- [1 .. 10^6]]