There's at least two other ways of doing it, if you allow the words to be reordered.
Thanks, -- Raul On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > The line is: > > SumOfFact^:3 169 > > Using a single pair of parentheses, separating the 3 and the 169 requires > placing at least one of the characters between the 3 and the 169. > > If you place both between 3 and 169, either order )( or () produces a > syntax error. > > So you must place either the left or the right parenthesis there but not > both. > > If the left, the only place to put the right is after the 169. > > If the right, there are only 3 words to the left of the added character > (SumOfFact, ^:, and 3). The lparen can be placed before any of those words. > > Total, 4 cases. > > Henry Rich > > (I write this in the full expectation that I am wrong, but I can do no > other) > > On 9/4/2014 8:00 PM, Raul Miller wrote: > >> Correction: >> >> I see five different ways of using a single pair of parenthesis to >> separate >> the 3 and the 169. >> >> (I believed there was a fifth way but I needed to eat breakfast before I >> could think clearly enough to see it.) >> >> Can you find them all? >> >> Thanks, >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
