RosettaCodeData/Task/Ackermann-function/Perl/ackermann-function-5.pl

35 lines
617 B
Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Math::BigInt;
use constant two => Math::BigInt->new(2);
sub ack {
my $n = pop;
while( @_ ) {
my $m = pop;
if( $m > 3 ) {
push @_, (--$m) x $n;
push @_, reverse 3 .. --$m;
$n = 13;
} elsif( $m == 3 ) {
if( $n < 29 ) {
$n = ( 1 << ( $n + 3 ) ) - 3;
} else {
$n = two ** ( $n + 3 ) - 3;
}
} elsif( $m == 2 ) {
$n = 2 * $n + 3;
} elsif( $m >= 0 ) {
$n = $n + $m + 1;
} else {
die "negative m!";
}
}
$n;
}
print "ack(3,4) is ", ack(3,4), "\n";
print "ack(4,1) is ", ack(4,1), "\n";
print "ack(4,2) has ", length(ack(4,2)), " digits\n";