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,
>>
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