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<ConsistencyModule:> atleast(?N, +Vars, +V)

Atleast N elements of Vars have the value V.
N
An integer or (domain) variable (array notation accepted)
Vars
A collection (a la collection_to_list/2) of (domain) variables or integers
V
An integer

Description

This constraint ensures that at least N elements of Vars have the value V.

This constraint is a specialisation of the more general count/4 constraint, with the (#>=) relation, i.e. the occurrences of V is greater than or equal to N. Note that the order in which N and V occur in the constraint are swapped with respect to occurrences/3 and count/4; this is for compatibility with the argument order in IC (for atmost/3).

ConsistencyModule is the optional module specification to give the consistency level for the propagation for this constraint: gfd_gac for domain (generalised arc) consistency. Note that if V is a domain variable, then the propagation is weak, achieving neither domain or bound consistency until V becomes ground.

This constraint is also known as atleast in the global constraint catalog, where N is restricted to an integer; the more general count/4 constraint is also known as count in the global constraint catalog, and the constraint is implemented using Gecode's count() constraint.

Fail Conditions

Fails if less than N elements of Vars can be instantiated to V.

Examples

[eclipse 2]: N :: [3,6], atleast(N, [3,A,3,5,3,3], 3).

N = 3
A = A{[-1000000 .. 1000000]}

See Also

count / 4, atmost / 3, element / 3, occurrences / 3, eclipse_6 : collection_to_list / 2, lists : collection_to_list / 2