Linda,

(1) That's ,: not ,

(2) Look up the dyadic use of  f&g  .  g here is 3 : '*: y'

Kip

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On Jan 31, 2013, at 5:13 AM, "Linda Alvord" <[email protected]> wrote:

>   sumofsq =: +/&(3 : '*: y')
>   3 sumofsq 4
> 25
>   5!:4 <'sumofsq'
>      -- / --- +       
>      │                
> -- & -+     -- 3       
>      L- : -+- ,:'*: y'
> 
> How do you explain thne  ,  in the tree?
> 
> Where does the  x  or  3  enter the situation?  It provides an answer, but
> how?
> 
> Linda
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of km
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 5:28 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Explicit v tacit
> 
> I very much like Raul's summary of explicit and tacit below.  Explicit is
> "show me an example" and tacit is "show me the procedure".
> 
> I know explicit verbs can have tacit parts and tacit verbs can have explicit
> parts!
> 
>    mean =: 3 : '(+/ % #)y'
>    sumofsq =: +/&(3 : '*: y')
>    mean 1 2 2 4 6
> 3
>    3 sumofsq 4
> 25
> 
> Kip Murray
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> 
> On Jan 30, 2013, at 8:14 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Personally, I like being able to understand verbs in terms of "what 
>> they do to nouns".  But I agree that it's also worthwhile being able 
>> to have abstract concepts of how they work.
>> 
>> --
>> Raul
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