[Jprogramming] APWJ exercises for the reader [2 of 4]

[Roger Hui]

The challenge posed was to find an expression using
fewer number of tokens than 5.  The challenge was met.



----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Clark <earthspotty at googlemail.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 15:00
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] APWJ exercises for the reader [2 of 4]
To: Programming forum <programming at jsoftware.com>

> Any advances on that?
> 
> Ian
> 
> PS: selected contributors (my choice) get acknowledged.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Roger Hui <rhui000 at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > The expressions to beat are #.p:q:|_19b96 and
> >>:1#.q:996, both with 5 tokens.  A 4-token solution is:
> > <: #. <. _1.9 96
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ian Clark <earthspotty at googlemail.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:56
> > Subject: [Jprogramming] APWJ exercises for the reader [2 of 4]
> > To: Programming forum <programming at jsoftware.com>
> >
> >> In At Play With J Edn 1, there were 4 questions left as
> >> exercises for
> >> the reader. In Edn 2 we want to provide the answers in an Appendix.
> >>
> >> Just so I don't get them wrong, could the forum please 
> suggest what
> >> the answers should be? You may have to refer to the Wiki page.
> >>
> >> I'm putting each question in a separate thread.
> >>
> >> +++++
> >> In: Ch 10 Years Digits
> >> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Articles/Play124 [see end-
> of-page]
> >>
> >> "There is a solution to 91 which is shorter than this, by the way."
> >> +++++
> >>
> >>
> >> Ian Clark
> >> Subeditor, APWJ Edn 2