On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Chris Burke <cbu...@jsoftware.com> wrote:
>> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Articles/Play164 [see end-of-page]
>>
>> "Here are the rest of the questions Amy had to answer. See if you can
>> answer them.
>>   A. What do you notice about the lockers that were touched by
>> exactly two students? (Try m19 >: 2=dc )

   primes=: p:@i...@#

   (-: primes)1+I. 2=dc
1

>>   B. What do you notice about the lockers that were touched by
>> exactly three students?

   (-: (>:*<:)@primes)I. 3=dc
1

>>   C. What do you notice about the lockers that were touched by
>> exactly four students?

I am still thinking about this one.

>>   D. What was the first locker touched by both student 6 and student 8?

   6 *.8
24

>>   E. What do you notice about the student numbers of the students
>> that touched both locker 24 and locker 36?

   */>:|:_ q: 24 36
8 9

They are 2^3 and 3^2

>>   F. Which students touched both locker 100 and 120? What do you
>> notice about their student numbers?"
>> +++++

   /:~ */ |: 2 3 5 ^"1 pfx 1 + 3 1 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 12 15 20 24 30 40 60 120
   /:~ */ |: 2 5 ^"1 pfx 1 + 2 2
1 2 4 5 10 20 25 50 100

I am not sure exactly what he wanted me to notice here.

FYI,

-- 
Raul
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