Another aspect is that the default format of numbers
is rather short for cusory convenience, but you can
specify more digits in various ways, e.g.
40 ": 365365365365365365^2
133491850208566926593356837672714240
Noting that the IEEE math isn't as good as the prodigy.
J has a default "print precision" of 6 as shown by -
9!:10 ''
6
but you can have it more closely emulate an HP45
(and the default in most APL systems) with -
9!:11 ] 10
365365365365365365^2
1.334918502e35
In J601 the all singing all dancing 8!: can even put
convenient ,s into the correct result for you ...
'c0' 8!:2 ] 365365365365365365x^2
133,491,850,208,566,945,040,100,911,382,265,856
At 13:36 +0000 2006/06/23, dly wrote:
Exactly what I was looking for--I knew there must be more significance
Donna
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