Hi Linda,

Alessandro defined at the beginning of the thread.

SumOfFact=: 3 : 0
    +/!"."0@": y
)

Cheers, bob

On Sep 5, 2014, at 7:52 AM, Linda Alvord <[email protected]> wrote:

> Where is SumOfFact these days?
> 
> Linda
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Bron
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 10:30 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] repeated applications of a verb
> 
> If we're allowed to re-arrange the words, there are exactly 10 ways to
> produce the same result:
> 
>          +/ (-:"1 {.)@:(". ::_:"".) (A.~ i.@:!@:#)&.;: 'SumOfFact^:3
> (169)'
>       10
> 
> HINT: There's something special about the results of this particular
> sentence, so you may not agree with all the "equivalent" sentences.
> 
> -Dan
> 
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>          (#~ (-:"1 {.)@:(". ::_:"".)) (A.~ i.@:!@:#)&.;: Q
>       SumOfFact ^: 3 ( 169 )
>       SumOfFact ^: ( 3 ) 169
>       SumOfFact ^: ( 169 ) 3
>       SumOfFact ^: 169 ( 3 )
>       SumOfFact ( ^: 3 ) 169
>       SumOfFact ( ^: 169 ) 3
>       3 ( SumOfFact ^: ) 169
>       ( SumOfFact ^: 3 ) 169
>       ( SumOfFact ^: 169 ) 3
>       169 ( SumOfFact ^: ) 3
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ---------------
> 
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] repeated applications of a verb
>   From: Raul Miller <[email protected]>
>   Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:40:47 -0400
>     To: Programming forum <[email protected]>
> 
> There's at least two other ways of doing it, if you allow the words to be
> reordered.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Raul
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> The line is:
>> 
>> SumOfFact^:3 169
>> 
>> Using a single pair of parentheses, separating the 3 and the 169 requires
>> placing at least one of the characters between the 3 and the 169.
>> 
>> If you place both between 3 and 169, either order )( or () produces a
>> syntax error.
>> 
>> So you must place either the left or the right parenthesis there but not
>> both.
>> 
>> If the left, the only place to put the right is after the 169.
>> 
>> If the right, there are only 3 words to the left of the added character
>> (SumOfFact, ^:, and 3).  The lparen can be placed before any of those
> words.
>> 
>> Total, 4 cases.
>> 
>> Henry Rich
>> 
>> (I write this in the full expectation that I am wrong, but I can do no
>> other)
>> 
>> On 9/4/2014 8:00 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
>> 
>>> Correction:
>>> 
>>> I see five different ways of using a single pair of parenthesis to
>>> separate
>>> the 3 and the 169.
>>> 
>>> (I believed there was a fifth way but I needed to eat breakfast before I
>>> could think clearly enough to see it.)
>>> 
>>> Can you find them all?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
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