I used Project Euler as an introduction to my J class this year. PE27 was one of the assignments:
http://www.raleighcharterhs.org/faculty/hrich/Courses/PSE/Unit%200%20Project%20Euler/HW%2014%20PE27%20Polynomials%20and%20looping.html The discussion there includes ^: . Henry Rich On 10/8/2011 6:23 AM, David Vaughan wrote: > Hi, I am looking to repeatedly apply a verb on itself until a certain value > is reached, with the prior knowledge that there are two values that can be > reached. The idea is to count how many times one of the two values comes up. > I know about the power verb but I'm not sure how to use it properly beyond > the simple v^:n y form. I've read about using it like a C while loop but in > my case, there are two values I want to 'exit the loop' with. > > Any pointers? Thanks. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm