Michal, This is a creative approach. Alos, I was "counting" the characters in theresult and not the actual expression.
Linda -----Original Message----- From: Programming [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michal Wallace Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 5:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Morning Mystery Using all 10: %(4 3 0 8 1,(7+9))(p. % 6 ^~ ]) 2*5 On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Philip Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Like it Peter > > there are so many great formulae for phi... > > 2*1&o.o.1r10 > 0.618034 > similar (but not using ten ; which is not on Linda's list of course) > _1+2*2&o.o.1r5 > > 0.618034 > > > > > > On 2/25/2016 2:15 PM, Peter B. Kessler wrote: > >> Thanks for noticing the golden ratio, which allows >> >> 2%1+%:5 >> 0.618034 >> >> 3 nouns, 3 verbs: 7 characters. >> >> ... peter >> >> On 02/25/16 01:25 AM, Ben Gorte - CITG 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 >>> ________________________________________ >>> From: Programming [[email protected]] on >>> behalf of Linda A Alvord [[email protected]] >>> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 08:49 >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [Jprogramming] Morning Mystery >>> >>> Using only the single digit counting numbers: >>> >>> >>> >>> >:i.9 >>> >>> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >>> >>> >>> >>> write the shortest possible expression to produce: >>> >>> >>> >>> 0.618034 >>> >>> >>> >>> Linxa >>> >>> >>> >>> l >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> -- For information about J forums see >>> http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> -- For information about J forums see >>> http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> -- >> For information about J forums see >> http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
