Period and colon are inflections when they are added to a word without 
space.  They are then part of the preceding word.  When preceded by a 
space, they start a new word.

Henry Rich

On 9/29/2011 6:12 PM, Linda Alvord wrote:
> Here is the space that is bothering me.  The different results are dependent
> upon the space before the colon.
>
>     d=: 13 : '/:~ :/:@":&.>y'
>     d a,b
> ------T-----┐
> │01123│01123│
> L-----+------
>
>     e=: 13 : '/:~:/:@":&.>y'
>     e a,b
> 0 1
>
>
>     -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Mitchell
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:24 AM
> To: Programming forum
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Permutations
>
> I find this helpful to see differences:
>
>      /:~ :/:@":&.>a,b
>                        -- ~ --- /:
>                  -- : -+- /:
>            -- @ -+- ":
>     --&. -+->
>     │
> --+      -- a
>     L------+- ,
>            L- b
>
>
>      /:~:([:/:": )&.>a,b
>     -- /:
>     │    -- ~:
>     │    │          -- [:
> --+    │      ----+- /:
>     │    +-&. -+   L- ":
>     L----+      L->
>          │
>          │      -- a
>          L------+- ,
>                 L- b
>
> --
> David Mitchell
>
> On 9/29/2011 5:45, Linda Alvord wrote:
>> The only difference between the correct and the incorrect result is a
> space
>> before the second  :  .   Should a space make a difference ever? In the
>> correct result I can't understand what it is, what it does and why it does
>> it.
>>
>>      /:~ :/:@":&.>a,b
>> ------T-----┐
>> │01123│01123│
>> L-----+------
>>
>>
>>      /:~:([:/:": )&.>a,b
>> 0 1
>>
>> Since I set out originally to remove "atop", how can I do it?
>>
>>     /:~ :([: /: ":)&.>a,b
>> ------T-----┐
>> │10123│32110│
>> L-----+------
>>
>> Hope you can help.  Thanks.  Linda
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Clark
>> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 9:13 PM
>> To: Programming forum
>> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Permutations
>>
>> Off-the-cuff...
>>
>>      a=: 10123
>>      b=: 32110
>>      c=: 32100
>> -:/ /:~ :/:@":&.>    a,b
>> 1
>> -:/ /:~ :/:@":&.>    a,c
>> 0
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:41 PM, David Vaughan
>> <[email protected]>   wrote:
>>> Hi, what is the best (fastest) way to check whether a number is a
>> permutation of another number?
>>> I've tried listing all permutations of one number and checking whether
> the
>> other number is in the list of permutations. This seems pretty slow, so I
>> was hoping for a faster method.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
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