Deleted too much: "One'd have to reshapre items appropriate, adding a 
dimension, to deal with lists." is what I meant to write.

Sep 12, 2022, 07:50 by programm...@jsoftware.com:

> 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,
>
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