Linda, does your tree display explain the difference for you?
I have tried to show what I mean with trees. The only word that may be
missing is "isolated": Trains are isolated sequences of verbs, and
parentheses pairs can induce isolation. In the first example the first 3
stars are forced into a single chain by the rightmost parens, but in the
second example the rightmost 3 stars are not isolated from the set of 3 in
the middle, which become a continuation of the rightmost train.
9!:2''
5
9!:3]4
(***(***)(***))
┌─ *
├─ *
│ ┌─ *
──┤ │ ┌─ *
│ ├───┼─ *
└───┤ └─ *
│
│ ┌─ *
└───┼─ *
└─ *
((***)(***)***)
┌─ *
┌─┼─ *
│ └─ *
│
│ ┌─ *
──┼─┼─ *
│ └─ *
│
│ ┌─ *
└─┼─ *
└─ *
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Linda Alvord <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I'm still looking for the phrase or concept that explains the difference
> between these two. Why are they producing different results?
>
> 3(***(***)(***))4
> 35831808
>
> 3((***)(***)***)4
> 429981696
>
> If you grew up in the early years using APL, an idea might come to mind.
>
> Linda
>
>
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