2006/11/15, June Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
from http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CodingProblem

Given K, answer an ordered collection of K ordered collections of size
approximately N / K, such that the first contains the first N / K
objects, the second the second N / K, etc.

There is a J solution on that page but it doesn't work in all cases.

Following is my solution (with one issue though):
c=: [: <. [ %~ [: # ]
hd=: ([: <: [) * c

b1=: hd {.]
b2=: hd }.]
f=: <@b2 ,~  [EMAIL PROTECTED] <\ b1

assert (0 1 2;3 4 5;6 7 8)-:3 f i.9
assert ((,:0);1 2)-:2 f i.3
assert (0 1 2;3 4 5;6 7 8 9)-:3 f i.10

assert ((0$<''),<0 1)-: 1 f i.2      NB.  $ > 1 f i.2  is 1 2, not 2
as I expected

I don't like the last line -- that problem occurs once in a while. How
could I make it to pass  "assert (<0 1)-:1 f i.2" with a simple
modification?

In other words, assert (,:<0 1)-: 1 f i.2

Hm... Maybe I was wrong.

My solution's result is more consistent than how I wanted the result to be.

The return value of f is, an array of rank 1. Each item of the array
is of rank 1. Then my previous solution is more consistent.

I am sometimes confused(and make mistakes) with the fact that in J we
have scalars of which rank is empty, which is different from a rank-1
array of a single item. Even a boxed value can a scalar or a rank-1
array(say <1 and ,:<1).


I am interested in seeing other J solutions.


Still.
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