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IsPrimitive

  

test whether a string is primitive

 

Calling Sequence

Parameters

Description

Examples

Calling Sequence

IsPrimitive( s )

Parameters

s

-

string

Description

• 

The IsPrimitive(s) command returns the value true if s is primitive, and the value false otherwise. A string is primitive if it cannot be written as a proper power of another string. In other words, s is primitive if Repeat⁡t,n=s implies that either s= or s=t and n=1.

• 

All of the StringTools package commands treat strings as (null-terminated) sequences of 8-bit (ASCII) characters.  Thus, there is no support for multibyte character encodings, such as unicode encodings.

Examples

> 

with⁡StringTools:

> 

IsPrimitive⁡

false

(1)
> 

IsPrimitive⁡a

true

(2)
> 

IsPrimitive⁡aaa

false

(3)
> 

IsPrimitive⁡abc

true

(4)
> 

IsPrimitive⁡abcabc

false

(5)
> 

seq⁡IsPrimitive⁡ThueMorse⁡n,n=1..30

true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true,true

(6)
> 

andmap⁡IsPrimitive,LyndonFactors⁡Random⁡1000,lower

true

(7)

See Also

string

StringTools

StringTools[LyndonFactors]

StringTools[Random]

StringTools[ThueMorse]