RosettaCodeData/Task/Fibonacci-word/Lua/fibonacci-word.lua

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-- Return the base two logarithm of x
function log2 (x) return math.log(x) / math.log(2) end
-- Return the Shannon entropy of X
function entropy (X)
local N, count, sum, i = X:len(), {}, 0
for char = 1, N do
i = X:sub(char, char)
if count[i] then
count[i] = count[i] + 1
else
count[i] = 1
end
end
for n_i, count_i in pairs(count) do
sum = sum + count_i / N * log2(count_i / N)
end
return -sum
end
-- Return a table of the first n Fibonacci words
function fibWords (n)
local fw = {1, 0}
while #fw < n do fw[#fw + 1] = fw[#fw] .. fw[#fw - 1] end
return fw
end
-- Main procedure
print("n\tWord length\tEntropy")
for k, v in pairs(fibWords(37)) do
v = tostring(v)
io.write(k .. "\t" .. #v)
if string.len(#v) < 8 then io.write("\t") end
print("\t" .. entropy(v))
end