Does it? Even for integral arguments (i.e. where the internal datatype guarantees that the numbers are whole)?
Any idea why? How did you discover this conversion? -Dan Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device. On Sep 15, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yep. Put an 'x' behind or a 'x:' in front. > > Note, also, that x: in front generates a floating point representation > of the number as an intermediate result. This would be good in > contexts where too much precision was undesirable (where we think of > it as noise), and bad in contexts where the precision represented > meaningful information. > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
