Raul,

My understanding is that the stems are never rounded, but the leaves
may be rounded to so that their displayed leaf is an integer.

I mentioned SAS before. SAS allows the use of stems that are either
X%10 5 2, I believe. I believe my version also allows such.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think the current wikipedia discussion of this topic is not self consistent.
>
> Earlier on the page, we see that 76 is interpreted as a stem of 7 and
> a leaf of 6, and 88 is interpreted as a stem of 8 and a leaf of 8.
>
> In the treatment of negative numbers, the stem for X is expressed as
> X/10, with non-negative integers rounded.  But 76/10 rounded would be
> 8, and 88/10 rounded would be 9.
>
> If it were self consistent, I would be interested in how it treats
> numbers in the range i:12
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul

-- 
(B=)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Reply via email to