Symbols: Hey, that's not my department. :-) In the HTML source they were entered as ⌈ ⌉ ⌊ and ⌋, and the way that are rendered probably depends on what fonts are installed on your system. I've looked at them in my Chrome browser in Windows and on my Galaxy Tab and they look fine.
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't have access to the 1968 edition, but would like to add that while > the link to APLQA.htm#Knuth renders OK in Firefox, the symbols are messed > up in Safari and Chrome on my iMac, but OK in both those browsers on my > iPad... Dunno why, just saying. > > On 2013/07/02 13:39 , Eric Iverson wrote: > >> The quote (below as taken from your link) appears in the 1968 edition. >> >> The notation [x] is often used elsewhere for one or the other of these >> functions, usually the former; the notation above, which are due to >> K.E. Iverson, are more useful, because both functions occur about >> equally often in practice. The function ⌊x⌋ is sometimes called the >> entier function, from the French word for “integer”. >> >> There is a small difference. The 1968 edition has: "...the notations >> above...". (note the s). >> >> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> http://www.jsoftware.com/**papers/APLQA.htm#Knuth<http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#Knuth> >>> >>> Does anyone have the original edition of Knuth's *The Art of Computer >>> Programming*, Volume 1, published in 1968? If so, can you please tell me >>> whether the above quotation occurs in that edition? >>> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ---------- > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/**forums.htm<http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
