Henry, My wife and I vacationed in Mexico shortly after Spelling Bee debuted. While she napped one afternoon, I wrote a solver. (Unlike most programmers, I know how to relax and unwind when I’m on vacation, you betcha.) My fate resembled that of my childhood cat, which strutted proudly into our kitchen one summer afternoon—head held high, tail straight in the air, for once absolutely sure of his welcome—to present my mother with a (mostly) dead squirrel.
I suspect geeks get this reaction a lot. I bet it’s related to that “emotional intelligence” myth I keep reading about… ;-) Ed Sent from my iPad > On May 2, 2022, at 4:29 PM, Henry Rich <henryhr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Perhaps a better subject line would be 'Bond thriller'? :) > > I wrote a solver, thinking it would be of interest to my wife. My fate > turned out to be Stockmann's in /An Enemy of the People/. I was accused of > taking all the fun out of the game. > > What I did find out is that my wife's play is within 0.2 turns/game of > optimum. > > I also learned there was a lot of uninformed strategizing tossed around on > the Internet. > > Henry Rich > >> On 5/2/2022 2:14 AM, Ed Gottsman wrote: >> Hi. I’m working on a Wordle solver (it competes with my wife, which is a >> mistake on many levels) and have run into something that confuses me. >> >> I wanted to “each” a bonded -. to an array of boxed strings. But the bond >> seems to behave differently from the equivalent(?) unbonded expression. >> >> result =: 'a0b0o1d2e0' >> result -. '0' >> abo1d2e >> -.&'0' result >> abo1d2e >> result -. '012' >> abode >> -.&'012' result >> 13564010916962913 4385872768 1 0 0 >> Everything behaves as expected up to “53212034851425 0 6 1 5”, which >> seems very peculiar. Could someone tell me what I’m missing here? (J901 on >> iPadOS.) >> >> Thank you. >> >> Ed >> >> Sent from my iPad >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
