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Determine whether an integer is square-free

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An integer is called square-free if it is not a multiple of a perfect square other than 1. For example, 42 is square-free, but 44 is not because it is a multiple of the perfect square 4 = 2².

Your task is to write a program or function that takes a positive integer, and returns a truthy value if the integer is square-free and a falsey value otherwise.

This is code golf, the shortest code wins.

The square-free numbers are OEIS sequence A005117 (thanks to Razetime for pointing this out).

Some test cases:

  1  true
  2  true
  3  true
  4  false
  5  true
  6  true
  7  true
  8  false
  9  false
 10  true
 12  false
 14  true
 16  false
 18  false
 20  false
 30  true
 40  false
 50  false
100  false
110  true
111  true
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[relevant oeis](http://oeis.org/A005117) (2 comments)
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Python3, 39 bytes

lambda n:all(n%i**2for i in range(2,n))

Try it online!

Makes a list comprehension from the numbers 2 through n of the remainder of the square, and then checks whether the list contains 0

-8 bytes thanks to celtschk‭
-5 bytes thanks to Moshi

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not 0 in X => all X (2 comments)
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dino‭ wrote over 2 years ago

I /could/ remove some bytes by changing int(sqrt(n)+1) to n, but some part of me really doesn't like sacrificing time complexity like that…

celtschk‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Well, it is a code golf challenge, not a run time challenge.

BTW, I suspect that dividing by all the single factors (your re-assignment of n) does not make your code faster, but slower. Anyway, it definitely makes it longer.

dino‭ wrote over 2 years ago

That's... a very fair point

celtschk‭ wrote over 2 years ago

The straightforward n%(i*i)==0 would be shorter than your double equality. Moreover, you then could remove the ==0 by replacing 1in with 0in, saving another 3 bytes.

dino‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Excellent suggestions, thank you!