My full reply is in the thread: [Jchat] J, APL, or calendars? On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:48 AM, 'Bo Jacoby' via Chat <[email protected]> wrote:
> mr Jose Mario Quintana remarks that stopwaches and odometers are 0-origin > devices. Today is the 24th day in the 5th month in the 2018th year. The > ordinal numbers begin at "first". But a stopwatch would show that 2017 > years, 4 months and 23 days have passed. Cardinal numbers begin at zero. A > J index shows how many array elements are skipped. This cardinal number is > confused with the ordinal number of the element. Centuries, decades, years, > months and days may be individually adressed by ordinal fractions. ORDINAL > FRACTIONS - the algebra of data. Thanks. Bo. > > | > | > | > | | | > > | > > | > | > | | > ORDINAL FRACTIONS - the algebra of data > This paper was submitted to the 10th World Computer Congress, IFIP 1986 > conference, but rejected by the referee.... | | > > | > > | > > > > > Den 1:12 torsdag den 24. maj 2018 skrev Jose Mario Quintana < > [email protected]>: > > > Forgive me but I find the present situation funny because, taken > literally, > one should conclude that currently "It is not yet considered ready to be > promoted as a complete task, for reasons that" cannot be found. > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 6:48 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Indeed: you could create that talk page, if you felt that that was a > > good thing. Or, I could. Or anyone else who has registered on that > > site could. > > > > Meanwhile, "draft" means "the task description might change if people > > find significant problems with the current description". That does not > > seem likely to happen in this case, but it's not like I have never > > been wrong... > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Raul > > > > > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 6:11 PM, Jose Mario Quintana > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Speaking of which, we don't yet have a J entry for > > >> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar > > > > > > There is a box on that page stating: > > > > > > French Republican calendar is a draft programming task. It is not yet > > > considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that > > should > > > be found in its talk page. > > > > > > Hovering on "talk page" the following text pops up: > > > > > > Talk:French Republican calendar (page does not exist) > > > > > > :D > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
