[Jprogramming] Morning Mystery

[Linda A Alvord]

Michal, This is a creative approach.  

Alos, I was "counting" the characters in theresult and not the actual expression.

Linda

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From: Programming [mailto:programming-bounces at forums.jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Michal Wallace
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 5:58 PM
To: programming at jsoftware.com
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Morning Mystery

Using all 10:

%(4 3 0 8 1,(7+9))(p. % 6 ^~ ]) 2*5

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Philip Hunt <philip.hunt at usa.net> wrote:

> Like it Peter
>
> there are so many great formulae for phi...
>
>  2*1&o.o.1r10
> 0.618034
> similar (but not using ten ; which is not on Linda's list of course)
> _1+2*2&o.o.1r5
>
> 0.618034
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2/25/2016 2:15 PM, Peter B. Kessler wrote:
>
>> Thanks for noticing the golden ratio, which allows
>>
>>         2%1+%:5
>>     0.618034
>>
>> 3 nouns, 3 verbs: 7 characters.
>>
>>             ... peter
>>
>> On 02/25/16 01:25 AM, Ben Gorte - CITG wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>> ________________________________________
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> l
>>>
>>>
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