The second "a" you put, shouldn´t be Integer?, shouldn´t you have an Integral ouput Type? It could be done using only things like map, iterate, take and other prelude staff: is that ok?

Cheers,

Luis Michelena

(a "Just a student")

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From: xoo

To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org

Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:59 AM

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hi.. i was just wondering if some body could give a simple equation for the following situation.other than recursion plz..

occurrences :: Eq a => a -> [a] -> [a]

--occurrences xs ys returns the number of times that xs occurs in ys

thanks

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