Dear Alex, Thank you.
I am at the moment at peace with J. (Now that I know how awkward it is to save and retrieve files and switching back from ijs to ijx and that there is no listing as such of multiline 'programs') I just have two trivial questions at the present: 1 what is the max n for pi: <[email protected]^n, and 2 is there a somewhat similar extended precision expression for e or exp(1), I expect the answer is yes I am reminded how simple things were in the early 1980's in hp BASIC and these machines still operate that way today. Which also reminded me that in 1969 'we' put two men on the moon, (3 in moon orbit) and got them back safely, and then repeated that a number of times til 1972. And now in 2010 we will soon be in the position that 'we' in the West can't even put a single man into low earth orbit. I do remember that when Dr Keith Smillie put me onto J last summer, i was looking for a number crunching program that would work nicely, easily, fast, and at increased precision, in particular for slowly converging math functions. Personally, i like Wolfgang Pauli's "falsch, ganz falsch, und nicht einmal falsch" grading of answers. "Wrong, totally wrong, and not even wrong". I thought my questions to the chat community were simple and straightforward so far. much appreciated D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
