Generating Circular Primes

I've been having way too much fun with Project Euler (and Haskell) lately. Below is a listing of my solution to problem 35: "How many circular primes are there below a million?"

It solves in about 2 seconds on my laptop (using -O2). This isn't great, but not bad given that the only optimizations in the code are: a memoized prime number generator, and the use of Data.Set for quick primality tests.

-- Project Euler: Problem 35  
--  
-- The number, 197, is called a circular prime because all rotations of the  
-- digits: 197, 971, and 719, are themselves prime.  
--  
-- There are thirteen such primes below 100: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 31, 37,  
-- 71, 73, 79, and 97.  
--  
-- How many circular primes are there below one million?  

import Data.Set (Set)  
import qualified Data.Set as Set  
import System (getArgs)  

-- How many circular primes do you want?  
limit = 1000000  

-- Memoized prime number generator.  
primes :: [Integer]  
primes = 2 : 3 : 5 : filter (not . hasFactor) [7..]  
  where hasFactor n = any (divides n) $ takeWhile (<= lowestFactor n) primes  
        divides n m = n `mod` m == 0  
        lowestFactor = ceiling . sqrt . fromIntegral  

-- Given an integer, return the number of digits in it.  
digits :: Integer -> Int  
digits n = ceiling $ logBase 10 $ fromIntegral (n + 1)  

-- Rotate number right:  
--   rotate 456 = 645  
--   rotate 3498 = 8349  
--  
-- Note that this does not work for numbers that have zeroes in them. But  
-- that's okay because any number with a zero in it is not a circular prime.  
-- Also, right rotation catches the zero before it disappears into the   
-- significant digit.  
rotate :: Integer -> Integer  
rotate n = strip_last_digit + (last_digit * tens_place)  
  where last_digit = n `mod` 10  
        strip_last_digit = (n - last_digit) `div` 10  
        tens_place = (10 ^ (digits n - 1))  

-- Set of million primes. This enables fast lookup in isCircularPrime.  
primeSet :: Set Integer  
primeSet = Set.fromList $ takeWhile (< limit) primes  

-- Returns True if number is prime.  
isPrime :: Integer -> Bool  
isPrime n = Set.member n primeSet  

-- Returns True if the number is a circular prime.  
isCircularPrime :: Integer -> Bool  
isCircularPrime n = all isPrime $ take (digits n) $ iterate rotate n  

-- Go.  
main :: IO ()  
main = print $ length $ filter isCircularPrime $ takeWhile (< limit) primes

So... how can I optimize this some more?

5 comments (imported from blogger)

Tobias Svensson
Well, you could adjust your prime number generator to generate two or more digit prime numbers only containing the digits 1, 3, 7 and 9. Otherwise the rotated numbers will be divisible by 2 or 5.
Bassam Abdul-Baki
Divisibility by 3 and 11 should be done separately.
http://home.comcast.net/~babdulbaki/Circular_Primes.html
0xfe
@ts That's a pretty good observation. Thanks!
0xfe
@bassam Thanks for the pointer.
mmorrow
I've got this sitting around my $HOME, possibly useful. Also, nice mach-o article.
(looks like the indentation is gonna be butchered..)
{-# OPTIONS_GHC -O2 #-}
import Data.List(foldl')
import Data.Monoid(mempty)
import Data.IntMap(IntMap) --Data.Map(Map)
import qualified Data.IntMap as M --Data.Map as M
import System.Environment(getArgs)
type Z = Int --Integer
type ZMap = IntMap [Z] --Map Z [Z]
main = print
. (sieve !!)
. read . head =<< getArgs
sieve :: [Z]
sieve = go [2..] mempty
where go [] _ = []
go (x:xs) m = maybe
(x : go xs (insert x m))
(go xs . fixup x m)
(M.lookup x m)
insert :: Z -> ZMap -> ZMap
insert x m = M.insert (x*x) [x] m
fixup :: Z -> ZMap -> [Z] -> ZMap
fixup x m = flip foldl' (M.delete x m)
(\m p -> M.insertWith (++) (x+p) [p] m)