Joey, My version is:
JVERSION Installer: j602a_win.exe Engine: j602/2008-03-03/16:45 Library: 6.02.049 Cheers, Tom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joey K Tuttle Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 22:10 To: General forum Cc: 'General forum' Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Array Based Languages At 18:11 -0500 2009/08/08, Tom Arneson wrote: >J uses IEEE floating point numbers for real numbers, so the built in PI verb >o. (PI Times) has about 17 decimal digits of precision > >You can use the Format verb ": to convert the real value to a literal (or >string): > > 0j16": o. 1 >3.1415926535897931 > 0j20": o. 1 >3.14159265358979310000 > >Another way to use PI is the constant 1p1, which means 1 times PI raised to >the 1st power: > > 0j8": 1p1 >3.14159265 > 0j20": 1p1 >3.14159265358979310000 > Tom, What version of j (or how did you configure) returns the above results? version '' Installer: j602a_mac_powerpc.dmg Engine: j602/2008-03-03/16:45 Library: 6.02.023 ProductName: Mac OS X Version: 10.5.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
