Basically, in case it's not obvious, colchain is returning a vector of two values, 1) the number of steps that particular sequence takes and 2) the largest nuber present in that sequence (hence the x:).
On 5 August 2014 00:11, Alex Giannakopoulos <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 August 2014 23:52, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Do you mean >> > > Yes, I do :) > > >> colchain =: 3 : 0 M. >> if. y=2 do. 1,2 >> else. chain=. colchain nextcol y >> (>:0{chain),x:y>.1{chain >> end. >> ) >> >> If so, that is an incomplete definition - x is a global variable in >> colchain. >> > > Is it? It's not even necessary. I put it in so that it would return an > exact integer rather than a large floating point value, > > I have also just upgraded my J8.01 via pacman, and it's broken it! > So I can't test at the moment, sorry! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
