Whoops!  I had ignored these primitives thinking they were merely
alternate ways to write numbers.

j. Imaginary • Complex
o. Pi Times 
r. Angle • Polar
x: Extended Precision


From: "Dan Bron" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Jchat] Conversion
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David Ward Lambert wrote:
>  I'd like to convert rational to float.  What, please, is a better
way?
>    1.001 * 2r5  NB. unsatisfying.

Since  x: 2%5  converts  0.4  to  2r5  we might expect that  (x:^:_1)
2r5 would ...












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