Raul, I ran your code and cut and pasted it in this message. I'm not sure how it will look. Try to ignore all the linefeeds and focus more on the results.
Here are some of my thoughts. You made it all the way to a frequency distribution which meets the requirements. That is a good first step. Actually you are the first to submit a result that gets that far. My most serious suggestion relates to the fact that you are missing the major idea in creating a verb. You need to study how to write explicit verbs in one line. As you change the arguments you will get different results without changing the verb. In a frequency distribution, usually the left column is arranged in numeric order. It is usally, although not always, arranged from small to large. You have gotten your results in some sort of random order. Using sort you will be able to change that. After that it should be easy to create purr or a frequence distribution of empirical percentages of occurrence in the large toss. Finaly, using fd again will not produce new results. Each of the things that I have mention are things to work out for yourself in the future. You have made impressive progress in mastering challenge. Keep writing! Linda oneCup=: ,:2# 4 6 8 12 20 oneCup 4 4 6 6 8 8 12 12 20 20 tosses=:+/"1@(1 + ?@#&oneCup) tosses +/"1@(1 + ?@#&(,:4 4 6 6 8 8 12 12 20 20)) fd=: (~.,. #/.~)tosses 5e5 fd 74 3971 71 6377 36 4049 59 17238 47 14176 43 10222 63 13979 42 9369 67 10357 49 16064 55 18328 40 7081 57 18450 76 2658 58 17654 51 17100 69 8242 45 12380 60 17038 46 13438 61 15913 75 3262 44 11190 35 3305 52 17710 53 18219 54 18413 38 5426 64 13064 56 18316 65 12240 68 9217 37 4711 50 16826 70 7257 48 15224 66 11276 72 5423 31 1309 62 15104 81 800 34 2690 29 817 79 1349 78 1717 80 1037 73 4721 77 2201 39 6201 41 8202 28 571 33 2194 83 424 82 543 32 1792 86 142 87 92 30 1055 27 393 26 286 21 35 22 58 84 300 85 211 25 200 91 11 24 134 90 15 23 96 89 37 88 56 92 7 18 4 93 4 16 2 20 15 19 8 94 2 17 2 1e5=+/1{"1 fd 0 500000=+/1{"1 fd 1 4!:0 ;:'oneCup tosses fd' 0 3 0 -----Original Message----- From: programming-boun...@jsoftware.com [mailto:programming-boun...@jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Raul Miller Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 1:09 PM To: Programming forum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Many Turkey Rolls - No embargo On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Linda Alvord <lindaalv...@verizon.net> wrote: > Create a frequency distribution fd of your data. How many of each possible > toss occurred. The possibilities are from 5 and 100 inclusive. This cannot be right. Either we are throwing one of each of the polyhedral dice and the possibilities are from 5 through 50, or we are throwing two of each of the polyhedral dice and the possibilities are from 10 through 100. Currently I am leaning towards the "two of each" interpretation. That leaves me with: oneCup=: ,:2# 4 6 8 12 20 NB. noun tosses=: +/"1@(1 + ?@#&oneCup) NB. verb fd=: (~.,. #/.~) tosses 5e5 NB. noun (And, yes, my earlier suggestion had a bug - a six sided dice would have numbers ranging from 0 through 5.) > Then make purr . This is also a frequency distribution but the results > should be percent of the total tosses each possible result. The total of > these 96 percents should have a sum of 100% . This can be affirmed with > assert. It checks the frequency distribution to be sure that your percentages > are correct. This would be: purr=: fd %("1) 1 _<.+/fd*0.01 Except here I see that you are suggesting that I have a bucket for each possible option, which typically will not happen. 10 will occur approximately one time in 2 trillion rolls: */&.:%,oneCup 2.12337e9 So let's revisit fd: fd=: (~.,. #/.~ - 1:) (10}.i.1++/,oneCup),tosses 5e5 purr=: fd %("1) 1 _<.+/fd*0.01 > Are your actual sums in a noun, d, of length 1e5 ? This list needs to be > tallied in a frequency distribution.Then also do a frequency distribution of > percentages. Write the verb purr > > fdrm=: > fdrm > Tally of totals What are the arguments of fdrm? Possibilities include; '' 5e5 (,oneCup); 5e5 oneCup; 5e5 5e5$ oneCup 1 + ? 5e5$ oneCup > Purrrm=: > purrrm d > Tallies converted to percentages What are the arguments of Purrrm? This could be the same arguments that fdrm takes or it could be the result of fdrm. > Purr has the sound of PERcent. Sorry if the playful name bothered you. I have no problem with the name. Some time I should tell you about the parser I wrote where all of the names came from the Flintstones, because I could not think of anything better. Hopefully my above comments, interleaved with text you wrote, make my problems clearer. Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm