[Jprogramming] Morning Mystery

[Ric Sherlock]

Nice!
Continuing with the assumption that not all digits need to be used, the
sentence can be further shortened to 17 chars
    %/({:,+/)^:(3*5)1

0.618034




On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Ben Gorte - CITG <B.G.H.Gorte at tudelft.nl>
wrote:

> I noticed a golden ratio.
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>    %/({:,+/)^:(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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> Subject: [Jprogramming] Morning Mystery
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> Using only the single digit counting numbers:
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>    >:i.9
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> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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> write the shortest possible expression to produce:
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> 0.618034
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> Linxa
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