RosettaCodeData/Task/Jacobi-symbol/Lua/jacobi-symbol.lua

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Lua

do -- Jacobi symbol - translation of the Algol 68 sample
local function jacobi( aIn, nIn )
if nIn <= 0 or nIn % 2 == 0 then
print( "The 'n' parameter of jacobi must be an odd positive integer." )
return 0
else
local a, n, result = aIn % nIn, nIn, 1
while a ~= 0 do
while a % 2 == 0 do
a = math.floor( a / 2 )
local nm8 = n % 8
if nm8 == 3 or nm8 == 5 then result = - result end
end
a, n = n, a;
if a % 4 == 3 and n % 4 == 3 then result = - result end
a = a % n
end
return n == 1 and result or 0
end
end
print( "Table of jacobi(a, n):" );
print( "n/a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15" )
print( "---------------------------------------------------------------" )
for n = 1, 29, 2 do
io.write( string.format( "%3d", n ) )
for a = 1, 15 do io.write( string.format( "%4d", jacobi( a, n ) ) ) end
io.write( "\n" )
end
end