Brian, This looks good. Sometimes I succeed sometimes not. I think the best way to get trees to work is to paste from VHS and then either use Options and HTML or Rich Text. However it looks like you just used Plain Text. Do you have a way that always works.
Linda -----Original Message----- From: programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com [mailto:programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Brian Schott Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2014 11:46 PM To: Programming forum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] High Speed Train Challenge Linda, does your tree display explain the difference for you? I have tried to show what I mean with trees. The only word that may be missing is "isolated": Trains are isolated sequences of verbs, and parentheses pairs can induce isolation. In the first example the first 3 stars are forced into a single chain by the rightmost parens, but in the second example the rightmost 3 stars are not isolated from the set of 3 in the middle, which become a continuation of the rightmost train. 9!:2'' 5 9!:3]4 (***(***)(***)) ┌─ * ├─ * │ ┌─ * ──┤ │ ┌─ * │ ├───┼─ * └───┤ └─ * │ │ ┌─ * └───┼─ * └─ * ((***)(***)***) ┌─ * ┌─┼─ * │ └─ * │ │ ┌─ * ──┼─┼─ * │ └─ * │ │ ┌─ * └─┼─ * └─ * On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Linda Alvord <lindaalv...@verizon.net> wrote: > I'm still looking for the phrase or concept that explains the difference > between these two. Why are they producing different results? > > 3(***(***)(***))4 > 35831808 > > 3((***)(***)***)4 > 429981696 > > If you grew up in the early years using APL, an idea might come to mind. > > Linda > > -- (B=) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
