Dictionary II. A.: an atom has one item, itself.

This is consistent with

   #3
1
   0{3
3

Henry Rich

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> The Dictionary seems to imply that
>    4 I. 5 6 7
> should return
> 1 1 1
> 
> My reading of it is that in this case it should be applied to 
> 0-cells of y
> and for each cell it should return #x, since x has no items, 
> and #4 is 1.
> 
> I guess the issue is that #y in principle returns the number 
> of items of
> y, except that a scalar like 4 has no items, but #4 is 1.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> John
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