Nice!
Continuing with the assumption that not all digits need to be used, the
sentence can be further shortened to 17 chars
%/({:,+/)^:(3*5)1
0.618034
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Ben Gorte - CITG <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I noticed a golden ratio.
>
> %/({:,+/)^:(3*4*5)[1 2 NB. 6, 7, 8 and 9 not needed
> 0.618034
>
> 22 characters excluding the comment
> (but then four numbers are missing)
>
> Ben
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> Linda A Alvord [[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 08:49
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> Subject: [Jprogramming] Morning Mystery
>
> Using only the single digit counting numbers:
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>
> >:i.9
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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>
>
> write the shortest possible expression to produce:
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>
>
> 0.618034
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>
>
> Linxa
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> l
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