Donna L.Y. wrote: > Here are some examples of the class of problems that I am referring > to when I concurred that it might be interesting to know the > difference between 1r3 and 111r333: ...
Why do you phrase this issue that way? Why not phrase it as, for example, the difference between the ratio represented by 1 3 and the ratio represented by 111 333. Or, as the difference between the expression '1%3' and the expression '111%333'. Or append the letter 'x' to those expressions. Or, ... ? After all, internally, the number 1r3 is represented as something analogous to (<(,1);,3), and the number 111111r333337 is represented as something analogous to (<111 111;333 337). If J can do that internally, is there some reason why application code can't resort to similar measures? P.S. in your earlier message, where you wrote: Max μ = α,χ you did not define μ. Perhaps you mean that μ is an n element vector where the ith element of μ is either the ith element of α or the ith element of χ, whichever is larger. But the notation I'm familiar with would have expressed that as μ = Max α,χ, and that still would not indicate the relevance of μ to the problem. (And, yes, I could probably look this up, but I'm not very energetic at the moment.) Anyways... clarification needed... -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
