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Exercises: Streams Part 3

1. Make a very large array of random doubles, each of which ranges from 0 to 1. A quick and easy
way to do this is with “new Random().doubles(size).toArray()”.

2. Compute the sum of the square roots of the numbers in the array. Find a shorter and simpler way
than making a loop to tally the sum. Hint: review the notes on number-specialized streams, espe-
cially the fact that you make a DoubleStream from a double[] with DoubleStream.of, not Stream.of.

3. Repeat the process in parallel. Once you have #2 working, this should be very simple.

4. Verify that you get the “same” answer with the parallel approach as with the sequential approach.
Why do I have “same” in quotes in the previous sentence?

5. Test whether the parallel approach is faster than the sequential approach. Doing the timing is a little
bit tedious, but if you think it simplifies things, you can steal the Op interface from streams-3-exer-
cises project, then do something like this:
Op.timeOp(() -> {
double sum = MathUtils.sqrtSumParallel(nums);
System.out.printf(" Sum is %,.8f.%n", sum);
});

6. Make an “infinite” stream that generates random doubles between 0 and 10. Use it to
• Print 5 random doubles
• Make a List of 10 random doubles
• Make an array of 20 random doubles
Note on printing arrays: in previous exercises, you printed an array by doing
System.out.println(Arrays.asList(yourArray));

This trick only works for arrays of objects, so it does not work if you have a double[], only if you
have a Double[]. If you used Stream.generate, no problem: you have a Stream<Double>, and from
that you can use toArray(Double[]::new) to get a Double[], then use the above trick to print the
array. However, if you used DoubleStream.generate, you have a DoubleStream (which is not the
same as a Stream<Double>). Given a DoubleStream, you can use toArray() to get a double[], but
then you cannot use the above trick to print the array. Either approach (Stream.generate or Dou-
bleStream.generate) is fine, and perhaps DoubleStream.generate is slightly preferred here. But, if
you use DoubleStream.generate and later produce an array, you will have to print out the elements
with a loop of some sort.

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