"Factoring a Number"
----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Clark <[email protected]> Date: Monday, May 18, 2009 4:28 Subject: Re: [Jchat] APWJ Second Edition Status To: Chat forum <[email protected]> > Referring to the original article in Vector vol 10.4 it had no title > beyond the series title: At Play With J. > > I don't know at what stage it acquired the rider: tacit > definition -- > that I guess must be put down to editorial misclassification > based on > the opening sentence which uses the term "tacit definition" as a > casual example of something to make the eyes glaze over. > > If the volunteer revising it can suggest a more appropriate > title for > what has become Chapter 2, I should be grateful. > > And yes: IMO advances in J (or desktop computers) since Gene > wrote the > articles are best handled as footnotes or endnotes. But... each case > on its merits. Volunteers: please suggest the wording of any footnote > or endnote you think it needs. > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Articles/Play102 illustrates how. > > Ian Clark > Subeditor, APWJ. > > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Chris Burke > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Brian Schott wrote: > >> I looked at that one too, and I agree. I have another > question about > >> that article. If you look in the paragraph where Eugene > writes, "Tsk > >> tsk." you will see he is suggesting that the residue function is > >> tolerant and the fit conjunction must be used to force no > tolerance.>> The Tsk Tsk seems to be noting that the fit use is > not properly > >> documented in the DOJ. But all of the examples give the same result > >> even without the zero tolerance forced. > >> > >> j602/help/dictionary/d230.htm > >> > >> Am I right? The current DOJ entry for residue seems to be oriented > >> toward augmenting residue to allow for tolerance, not removing > >> tolerance. > > > > The article was written many years ago. Since then, fit for > residue is > > documented, and we have extended integers and q: . I suggest > documenting> the new stuff in footnotes, see > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Articles/Play171 , and > perhaps Ian > > can make any editorial changes in content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
