The challenge posed was to find an expression using fewer number of tokens than 5. The challenge was met.
----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Clark <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 15:00 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] APWJ exercises for the reader [2 of 4] To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > Any advances on that? > > Ian > > PS: selected contributors (my choice) get acknowledged. > > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > > The expressions to beat are #.p:q:|_19b96 and > >>:1#.q:996, both with 5 tokens. A 4-token solution is: > > <: #. <. _1.9 96 > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Ian Clark <[email protected]> > > Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:56 > > Subject: [Jprogramming] APWJ exercises for the reader [2 of 4] > > To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > > > >> In At Play With J Edn 1, there were 4 questions left as > >> exercises for > >> the reader. In Edn 2 we want to provide the answers in an Appendix. > >> > >> Just so I don't get them wrong, could the forum please > suggest what > >> the answers should be? You may have to refer to the Wiki page. > >> > >> I'm putting each question in a separate thread. > >> > >> +++++ > >> In: Ch 10 Years Digits > >> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Articles/Play124 [see end- > of-page] > >> > >> "There is a solution to 91 which is shorter than this, by the way." > >> +++++ > >> > >> > >> Ian Clark > >> Subeditor, APWJ Edn 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
