RosettaCodeData/Task/Hailstone-sequence/Go/hailstone-sequence-1.go

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Go

package main
import "fmt"
// 1st arg is the number to generate the sequence for.
// 2nd arg is a slice to recycle, to reduce garbage.
func hs(n int, recycle []int) []int {
s := append(recycle[:0], n)
for n > 1 {
if n&1 == 0 {
n = n / 2
} else {
n = 3*n + 1
}
s = append(s, n)
}
return s
}
func main() {
seq := hs(27, nil)
fmt.Printf("hs(27): %d elements: [%d %d %d %d ... %d %d %d %d]\n",
len(seq), seq[0], seq[1], seq[2], seq[3],
seq[len(seq)-4], seq[len(seq)-3], seq[len(seq)-2], seq[len(seq)-1])
var maxN, maxLen int
for n := 1; n < 100000; n++ {
seq = hs(n, seq)
if len(seq) > maxLen {
maxN = n
maxLen = len(seq)
}
}
fmt.Printf("hs(%d): %d elements\n", maxN, maxLen)
}