Difference Engine

Charles Babbage's Difference Engine for Clojure.

An (arguably more fun) alternative to range, infer returns a lazy sequence of zeroes of the least degree polynomial function inferred from the given pattern.

Here's a short history of its evolution.

Leiningen

[difference-engine "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"]

Usage

(require '[difference-engine.core :refer [infer]])


(infer [1 2]) ;=> (1 2 3 4 5 ...)

(infer [100 90]) ;=> (100 90 80 70 60 ...)

(infer [1 4 9]) ;=> (1 4 9 16 25 ...)


(infer 5 [20 15]) ;=> (20 15 10 5 0)

License

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License.