[Jprogramming] Morning Mystery

Ben Gorte - CITG B.G.H.Gorte at tudelft.nl
Thu Feb 25 09:25:24 UTC 2016


I noticed a golden ratio.

   %/({:,+/)^:(3*4*5)[1 2   NB. 6, 7, 8 and 9 not needed
0.618034

22 characters excluding the comment 
(but then four numbers are missing)

Ben
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From: Programming [programming-bounces at forums.jsoftware.com] on behalf of Linda A Alvord [lindaalvord at verizon.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 08:49
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Subject: [Jprogramming] Morning Mystery

Using only the single digit counting numbers:



   >:i.9

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9



write the shortest possible expression to produce:



0.618034



Linxa



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