[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
To: programming at jsoftware.com
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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