Programming Praxis

I continue today working through my backlog of homework problems:

Given an array of at least three distinct positive integers sorted in ascending order, find all triples of array elements that form an arithmetic progression, so that the difference between the first and second elements is the same as the difference between the second and third elements. For instance, in the array (1 2 3 4 6 7 9) there are five triplets in arithmetic progressions: (1 2 3), (2 3 4), (2 4 6), (1 4 7), and 3 6 9).

Your task is to write a program that finds all the arithmetic progressions in an array; for extra credit, do the same thing for geometric progressions, where the ratios of the first to second element and the second to third elements are the same. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.

Pages: 1 2