R.E. wrote: > What's more, each rule is applied at most once Yep, rule will only substitution at the leftmost possible location. Of course, after every restart, the rule has a chance to be applied again (e.g. 'A->B' markov 'AAA' produces 'BBB' after 3 passes [applications of the rule]).
> as the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_algorithm#Execution_2 shows. Yes, since there are 3 rules but at most one substitution can take place per rule application, this evaluation takes 8 steps to complete. -Dan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
