Louis, That's impressive. I did a little Cosmetics. acl=: 13 :'|:(] , (,. ,.))/y' acl 'HQDNP ' PNNDDDDQQQQQQQQHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH P PNN PNNDDDD PNNDDDDQQQQQQQQ P P PNN P PNN PNNDDDD P P P PNN P acl [: |: (] , (,. ,.))/
Now my challenge is understand how it wors well enough to explain it to others. Thanks, Linda acl -----Original Message----- From: Programming <programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com> On Behalf Of Louis de Forcrand Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2018 5:09 PM To: programm...@jsoftware.com Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] (no subject) Hi, This is very similar to what you’re doing (you have to transpose the result to get exactly what you want): AC=: ({.~ -@>:@#) {~ #\ *"1 [: #:@i. 2 ^ # |:AC 'PNDQ' PPPPPPPP NNNN NNNN DD DD DD DD Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q This one is quite cute if you don’t care about the aligning of the columns, but it only works for vectors, and a space / zero must be appended at the end of the vector: (] , (,. ,.))/'PNDQ ' Q D DQ N NQ ND NDQ P PQ PD PDQ PN PNQ PND PNDQ Cheers, Louis > On 16 Dec 2018, at 02:50, lindaalvord <lindaalv...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > In 1984 I wrote a little paperback called “Probility in APL”. I have > been thinking about combination. So I translated three verbs to provide all > the ways ‘PNDQ’ or a penny, nickel, dime and quarter could be combined. > > Possible outcomes: > po=: 13 :'|:y#:i.*/y' > po 2 2 2 2 > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 > 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 > 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 > 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 > Correction matrix: (array) > > cm=: 13 :'(*/y)(#"0) 0,}:+/y' > cm 2 2 2 2 > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 > 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 > 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 > All combinations as chafacters: > > ac=: 13 :'((po + cm) ($y)#2){,'' '',.y' > ac 'PNDQ' > PPPPPPPP > NNNN NNNN > DD DD DD DD > Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q > Each column is possible combination of the coins. > > I’m interested to know a better way to get this conclusion. > > Linda > > > > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.j > software.com%2Fforums.htm&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5e5b77214fed4a7ce9d308 > d663a31a0e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C63680594949679 > 4717&sdata=tq4mny21riot%2BKHKegpf0jCe7WIKxNuhmNLeGbTO4dI%3D&re > served=0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsoftware.com%2Fforums.htm&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5e5b77214fed4a7ce9d308d663a31a0e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636805949496794717&sdata=tq4mny21riot%2BKHKegpf0jCe7WIKxNuhmNLeGbTO4dI%3D&reserved=0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm