[Tutor] operator, mult

[col speed]

Thanks John,
That sorted me out, sometimes I just can't get things worked out in my head,
then get a sense of "instant enlightenment", which your comments did for me.
I am ashamed to say I was using the wrong prime factors function, then
changing the mult to mul all started to make sense.
Thanks again
Colin

2009/1/29 John Fouhy <john at fouhy.net>

> 2009/1/29 col speed <ajarncolin at gmail.com>:
> [...]
> > What I expected  "mult" to do was (somehow)to work out  what the powers
> of
> > the prime factors would be. Another reason I didn't think it was "mul" is
> > the part that says "  prime_factors_mult(n)" as the prime_factors
> function
> > is just "prime_factors(n)" - without the "_mult".
>
> Well, it's been a while since my number theory course, so I was just
> going from the code comments:
>
> def totient(n):
>    """calculate Euler's totient function.
>
>    If [[p_0,m_0], [p_1,m_1], ... ] is a prime factorization of 'n',
>    then the totient function phi(n) is given by:
>
>        (p_0 - 1)*p_0**(m_0-1) * (p_1 - 1)*p_1**(m_1-1) * ...
>
>     >>> phi(1)
>    1
>    >>> phi(10)
>    4
>    """
>     from operator import mult
>
>    if n == 1: return 1
>
>    return reduce(mult, [(p-1) * p**(m-1) for p,m in prime_factors_mult(n)])
>
> If we imagine for a moment that we have:
>
>    prime_facs = [(p_0, m_0), (p_1, m_1), (p_2, m_2), (p_3, m_3)]
>
> then
>
>    reduce(operator.mul, [(p-1) * p**(m-1) for p,m in prime_facs])
>
> translates exactly to
>
>    (p_0-1)*p_0**(m_0-1) * (p_1-1)*p_1**(m_1-1) * (p_2-1)*p_2**(m_2-1)
> * (p_3-1)*p_3**(m_3-1)
>
> which seems to match the description in the comment.
>
> --
> John.
>
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