Hey, Whilst getting back to a Markov text generator in J, I quickly came to the issue of all top-result verbs for histograms, found querying the wiki and the mailing lists, to be dealing with numeric types only. One'd have to reshape the items appropriately to a new dimension. But if one has n-tuples of words, what then? The verbs give domain errors on symbols and boxes.
Obviously, I. can't be used, and something long would just be ill-performant, like +/|:= and tying that to the nub somehow. What would work with symbols, boxed strings, or rank 2 array? What would work well? A typical novel is 8e4 +- 2e4, that's a lot of tuples, and my idea is to employ 3-, 4-, and 5-length groupings, just to compare results with different settings. I've dealt little-to-not-at-all with symbols, and boxed strings, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
