Pascal, Thank you. I added a counter and when it failed the counter was 1998. N is over 500,000. x is the large growing noun. I also assigned x to a global name then and at failure #x was 2656. It will take me a little while to translate my real verbs into bar1 and bar2.
Are you optimistic about Power working here? On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 8:40 AM 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming < programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > How many times do you guess the function is recursing > the power version (with X0 Y0 initial values for x and y) > 10 (bar1 ; bar2 )&>/^:([ > 0 #@{:: ] )^:_ X0 ; Y0 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm