use ntheory qw/gcd vecsum vecfirst/; sub stern_diatomic { my ($p,$q,$i) = (0,1,shift); while ($i) { if ($i & 1) { $p += $q; } else { $q += $p; } $i >>= 1; } $p; } my @s = map { stern_diatomic($_) } 1..15; print "First fifteen: [@s]\n"; @s = map { my $n=$_; vecfirst { stern_diatomic($_) == $n } 1..10000 } 1..10; print "Index of 1-10 first occurrence: [@s]\n"; print "Index of 100 first occurrence: ", (vecfirst { stern_diatomic($_) == 100 } 1..10000), "\n"; print "The first 999 consecutive pairs are ", (vecsum( map { gcd(stern_diatomic($_),stern_diatomic($_+1)) } 1..999 ) == 999) ? "all coprime.\n" : "NOT all coprime!\n";