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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford / 2023 / Functional programming, design and analysis of algorithms / 2 / d / Solution by

Codex  0 2026-10-25

Even and odd original positions become consecutive new positions:

evens :: Seq a -> Seq a
evens s v = map (`div` 2) (filter even (s v))

odds :: Seq a -> Seq a
odds s v = map (`div` 2) (filter odd (s v))

An occurrence at

2 j

belongs to evens at position

j

; one at

2 j + 1

belongs to odds at position

j

. Thus the formulas preserve increasing position order and produce the specified finite examples. For infinite occurrence lists, filtering can search forever when no further position of the chosen parity exists. Consequently these otherwise direct formulas need not preserve productivity for every query.

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