^t.
%@!
   *:t.
{&0 0 1 0x@(3&<.)

Raul,

Why are you expecting the more complex result from `^t.`? 

And btw, the result from *: is striking to me because of the x in it. At first 
I thought it was for the left argument, but the realized it is to force 
precision.

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On Oct 29, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> In this case, it's doing this:
> 
>   ^ t.
> %@!
> 
> the dictionary definition suggests that we should instead be getting
> something like this:
> 
> %@! :(^ * %@!@])"0
> 
> I'm not sure, though, what good that extra complexity would achieve.
> It's possible, for example, that that text for the dyadic case of a
> taylor verb was a half formed thought and what would be useful is
> something related-but-different.
> 
> -- 
> Raul
> 
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Richard Vaughan <rlvaug...@comcast.net> 
> wrote:
>> Not missing any important concept!  Clearly the valuation at x can easily be
>> done as you suggest.  I was just looking through some J primitives that I
>> had not used much and came upon this discrepancy between the vocabulary page
>> and the behavior of the verb in question.   Probably the vocabulary was
>> wrong, and the verb itself does something not so easily replaceable with a
>> short definition. But I can't figure out exactly what it is doing.
>> 
>> 
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