%% Chapter 5 practical session
%%
%% The purpose of Practical Session 5 is to help you get familiar with Prolog’s
%% arithmetic capabilities, and to give you some further practice in list
%% manipulation. To this end, we suggest the following programming exercises:
%% 

%% 1. In the text we discussed the 3-place predicate accMax which returned the
%% maximum of a list of integers. By changing the code slightly, turn this into
%% a 3-place predicate accMin which returns the minimum of a list of integers.
min([], N, N).
min([H|T], N, M) :-
	H < N,
	min(T, H, M).
min([H|T], N, M) :-
	H >= N,
	min(T, N, M).

min([H|T], N) :-
	min(T, H, N).

%% 2. In mathematics, an n-dimensional vector is a list of numbers of length n.
%% For example, [2,5,12] is a 3-dimensional vector, and [45,27,3,-4,6] is a
%% 5-dimensional vector. One of the basic operations on vectors is scalar
%% multiplication . In this operation, every element of a vector is multiplied
%% by some number. For example, if we scalar multiply the 3-dimensional vector
%% [2,7,4] by 3 the result is the 3-dimensional vector [6,21,12] .
%% 
%% Write a 3-place predicate scalarMult whose first argument is an integer,
%% whose second argument is a list of integers, and whose third argument is the
%% result of scalar multiplying the second argument by the first. For example,
%% the query
%%    ?-  scalarMult(3,[2,7,4],Result).
%% should yield
%%    Result  =  [6,21,12]
scalarMult(_, [], []).
scalarMult(K, [H|T], R) :-
	V is K * H, 
	scalarMult(K, T, [R|V]).
	

%% 3. Another fundamental operation on vectors is the dot product. This
%% operation combines two vectors of the same dimension and yields a
%% number as a result. The operation is carried out as follows: the
%% corresponding elements of the two vectors are multiplied, and the
%% results added. For example, the dot product of [2,5,6] and [3,4,1] is
%% 6+20+6 , that is, 32 . Write a 3-place predicate dot whose first
%% argument is a list of integers, whose second argument is a list of
%% integers of the same length as the first, and whose third argument is
%% the dot product of the first argument with the second. For example,
%% the query
%%    ?-  dot([2,5,6],[3,4,1],Result).
%% should yield
%%    Result  =  32