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[0] [Jprogramming] Adverbial Tacit Jym Jose Mario Quintana
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On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Jose Mario Quintana <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I am afraid that you must strengthen the rules; the easiest way would be
> to add "no cheating is allowed." Otherwise, one can cheat easily [0]
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> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Louis de Forcrand <[email protected]>
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>> Alrighty then.
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>> Let’s start this off with a couple of rules:
>> - We can either count characters or tokens; I suggest tokens.
>> Either one should be counted on fixed (f.) functions.
>> - Programs can be restricted to either tacit or explicit, or not.
>> In the latter case counting tokens would be ambiguous, so I
>> don’t think the two should be used together.
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>> Of course this could change from task to task, and should be clarified
>> at the beginning of new challenges.
>> I won’t be coming up with all of the challenges; you should make some
>> up too.
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>> Without further ado, here is a simple first challenge:
>> Write a verb which takes a scalar N, and returns all solutions to the
>> N-Queens problem in the form of a rank-2 array of rank-1 permutation
>> vectors. Given a vector V, the queens’ coordinates are:
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>> (,.~ i.@#) V
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>> This can be done because we know that no two queens can be
>> placed on the same row.
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>> I suggest counting tokens of tacit solutions using this verb:
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>> scr=: #@;:@(5!:5) NB. score verb: scr ‘foo’ ; ‘bar’ ; ‘baz’
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>> If you have a better suggestion for scoring or rules, feel free to chime
>> in.
>> In addition, if you feel your version is particularly elegant, or
>> efficient,
>> or posses any other attribute you deem worthy, please share it with us,
>> even if it is does not have an especially low score.
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>> I will be posting my contender soon.
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>> Cheers,
>> Louis
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>> > On 20 Aug 2016, at 21:47, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > Hi! Welcome. I think this is the right place.
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>> > Source: http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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>> > On Aug 20, 2016 3:35 PM, "Louis de Forcrand" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> >> Hi everyone,
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>> >> Would this be the appropriate place for some Jolfing (J code golfing),
>> >> or is there a better place for this?
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>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Louis
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