On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Viktor Cerovski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thomas Costigliola-2 wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> (-:@{. ([,+) {:)^:_ ] 1 1 >> 0 2 >> >> A little better but I still want the left arg to power to be shorter >> or at least more clear. >> [...] >> > > mp=.+/ .* > (0.5 0,.1)&mp^:_ ] 1 1 > 2 1 > > Such program terminates only because of the round-off error, thus > > (1r2 0,.1)&mp^:_ ] 1 1 > > should eventually run out of memory.
Good point. And a computer (human, electronic or otherwise) could never conclude the sum is 2 by actually adding the terms. So even if i. _ was valid, a sound theoretical answer would still require something capable of symbolic manipulation to go any further than just communicating the idea. > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Number-Machines-%28moved-from-jgeneral%29-tp26703075s24193p26712437.html > Sent from the J Chat mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
