Donna L.Y. wrote; > I wanted to know the SIGNIFICANT digits. (oddly enough the > subject of my post) and I wanted this to be reflected no matter > what the for of display or internal storage.
Significant for accuracy? Or significant for precision? In other words: this is indeed a very important issue, but the relevant details depend on context. J has a number of features aimed at letting the programmer express concepts of significant digits, ranging from 9!:11 to dyadic ": and 8!:x It WOULD be convenient if J could just read my intentions and intuit what kind of significance is relevant to the problem I'm trying to address. In J6, however, I have to express my intentions in code. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
