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 To: "'Chat forum'" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <010901cabf1e$82032a10$86097e...@us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
