Ahh, he significance of lost significance is significantly not lost,
.... here.
On 6/24/06, Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 18:14 -0700 2006/06/24, Joey K Tuttle wrote:
>Sorry, I meant to say -
>
>You disagree with that also?
Sorry also that I stupidly used the wrong example... I
meant that I think the first and last should produce the
same result - but that there are three different results
seems confusing at best...
'0' 8!:2 ] 365365365365365365x^2
133491850208566945040100911382265856
0": 365365365365365365^2
133491850208566926593356837672714240
0": 365365365365365365x^2
133491850208566925016658299941583225Where it actaully is a case of
different results;
provided that the definitions of the operators invoked as _Mathematical_
entities, not just _J_ items,
do not warrant these differences.
Since the "significance" (number of digits) being _dsplayed is apparently
the same,
perhaps a consideration of _redefining_ the _J_ entities, or language rule
set or principles,
might also be warranted.
I note in passing that most systems with extensive ad hoc "escape"
mechanisms
(where strange things tend to gather) also usually end up having the
weirdnesses
expressed exactly at those boundaries.
Older example, still weird IMOHO:
APL circle, while head and tails above the older explicitly listed
functional
usages of conventional mathematics, is still insufficiently regularized
(IMOHO)
to be regarded with the same degree of fervor or favor as the other aspects
of APL;
similarly so for J's treatment of the circular functions. But perhaps
better than APL.
And those are quite normal compared to the above interface;
probably even constrained to a single numeric LHSA.
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