Week 2: Exercises

1. Triple List

Write a predicate triple(L) that is true if L is a list with three elements, all of which are identical.

2. Triple Diff

Write a predicate triple_diff(L) that is true if L is a list with three elements, all of which are different.

3. All Same

Write a predicate all_same(L) that is true if all elements of L are the same.

4. Second Last

Write a predicate second_last(X, L) that is true if X is the next-to-last element of L.

5. Next To

Write a predicate next_to(X, Y, L) that is true if elements X and Y appear in L, with Y immediately after X.

6. Is A List

Write a predicate is_list(L) that is true if L is a list of any length.

7. Same Length

Write a predicate same_length(L, M) that is true if L and M have the same length. Do not use any integers in your solution.

8. Even Length

Write a predicate even_length(L) that is true if the length of L is an even integer.

9. Longer

Write a predicate longer(L, M) that is true if L is longer than M.

10. Double Length

Write a predicate double_length(L, M) that is true if L is twice as long as M.

11. Length

Write a predicate len(L, N) that is true if the length of list L is N.

12. All Different

Write a predicate all_diff(L) that is true if all elements of L are all different.

13. Ordered List

Write a predicate ordered(L) that is true if the integers in L are in non-decreasing order.

14. Nth

Write a predicate nth(N, L, X) that is true if the nth element of list L is X, where the first element has index 0.

15. Prefix

Write a predicate prefix(L, M) that is true if L is a prefix of list M.

16. Reverse

Write a predicate reverse(L, M) that is true if L and M contain the same elements in reverse order.

17. Select

Write a predicate select(X, L, M) that is true if X can be removed from L to make M. Equivalently, select(X, L, M) is true if X can be inserted anywhere in M to make L.

18. Product

Write a predicate product(L, N) that is true if N is the product of the integers in L.

19. Reduce to Zero

Write a predicate reduce_to_zero(L) that takes L, a list of integers. Given integers x1, ..., xn, the predicate should succeed if there is any sequence op1, ..., opn - 1 of arithmetic operations from the set (+, -, *, /) such that x1 op1 x2 op2 x3 ... xn = 0. Assume that all operators are right-associative. For example, reduce_to_zero([8, 8, 5, 4]) will succeed because (for example) 8 - (8 * (5 - 4)) = 0.

20. Reduce, Extended

Modify the predicate from the previous exercise so that takes an additional argument holding a list of operations, where the atoms add, sub, mul and div represent the operations. For example, reduce_to_zero([8, 8, 5, 4], [sub, mul, sub]) should succeed.

21. Greatest Common Divisor

Write a predicate gcd(I, J, K) that is true if the greatest common divisor of I and J is K.

22. Prime

Write a predicate is_prime(N) that is true if N is prime.

23. All Primes

Write a predicate all_primes(I, J) that returns a list of all prime numbers between I and J, inclusive.

24. Smallest Prime Factor

Write a predicate smallest_factor(N, P) that is true if P is the smallest prime factor of N.

25. Crosswords

Suppose that we'd like to fill in a 3 x 3 grid with letters so that every row and column contains one of these words:

AGE, AGO, CAN, CAR, NEW, RAN, ROW, WON

Write a Prolog program that can find all possible solutions.

26. Mini-Minesweeper

Consider the following tiny Minesweeper board of dimensions 5 x 2:

A number N means that there are N mines in adjacent squares (which may be adjacent horizontally or diagonally).

Write a Prolog program that can find all possible positions for the mines.

27. Beethoven's Wig

Someone has stolen Beethoven's wig and has put it in one of four locked boxes. The boxes are numbered 1,2,3,4 in that order. There are four different keys that each have their own color. Also:

  1. The green key goes to the third or fourth box.

  2. The wig is to the left of the fourth box.

  3. The wig is to the right of the first box.

  4. The yellow key is to the left of the wig.

  5. The blue key is to the right of the yellow key and to the left of the green key.

  6. The red key goes to the first box.

Which box contains Beethoven's wig? Write a Prolog program that can find the answer.

28. Acyclic Directed Graph

Consider this acyclic directed graph:



One way to represent a graph in Prolog is as a list of edges. For example, we can represent the graph above by this term:

G = [ [a, b], [a, e], [b, c], [b, f], [e, d],
      [e, f], [f, c], [g, d], [g, h], [h, f] ].

Write a predicate path(G, V, W, L) that is true if L is a list of vertices along a path from V to W in the graph G.