#! /usr/bin/lua -- by Michael Anderson at -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8722620/comparing-two-index-tables-by-index-value-in-lua function recursive_compare(t1,t2) -- Use usual comparison first. if t1==t2 then return true end -- We only support non-default behavior for tables if (type(t1)~="table") then return false end -- They better have the same metatables local mt1 = getmetatable(t1) local mt2 = getmetatable(t2) if( not recursive_compare(mt1,mt2) ) then return false end -- Check each key-value pair -- We have to do this both ways in case we miss some. -- TODO: Could probably be smarter and not check those we've -- already checked though! for k1,v1 in pairs(t1) do local v2 = t2[k1] if( not recursive_compare(v1,v2) ) then return false end end for k2,v2 in pairs(t2) do local v1 = t1[k2] if( not recursive_compare(v1,v2) ) then return false end end return true end function n2tab(n) local a = {} string.gsub(tostring(n), ".", function(c) table.insert(a,c) end) table.sort(a) return a end function permutable() local n = 0 while true do n = n + 1 local base = n2tab(n) local q = true for k = 2,6 do local tt = n2tab(n * k) if not recursive_compare(base, tt) then q = false break end end if q then return n end end end if permutable() == 142857 then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")