Why don't you just do pr =: 3 : '%+/%y'
? Kip Murray Sent from my iPad On Oct 13, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Keith Park <[email protected]> wrote: > To find the value of resistors in parallel one takes the reciprocal of the > sum of the reciprocals. So I would like to write a verb to do just > that. *pr=:%+/% > *But that, of course, doesn't work. So my question is "is there a way > of avoiding unwanted hooks and forks?" > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Keith Park <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks! >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> In the sentence: >>> >>> +/&.:% resistances >>> >>> the phrase +/&.:% is a verb which finds parallel resistance. >>> >>> -- >>> Raul >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Keith Park <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> To parallel a number of resistors the expression * %+/% *does the job. >>>> How could one make an equivalent verb? >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Boyko Bantchev <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 26 September 2012 15:39, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> +&.% is the operation for combining parallel electrical resistances, >>>>> another >>>>>> example that immediately demonstrates the associativity. >>>>> >>>>> Indeed! I had the vague feeling I know this formula from somewhere >>>>> else but it evaded me where. >>>>> >>>>>> (w:h) ................. >>>>> >>>>> The above is a mistake, of course. I should have said h:w, or place >>>>> rectangles one above the other instead. >>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
