But what is z?

Thanks,

-- 
Raul


On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Jon Hough <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry, The verb zeta is dyadic.for example 2 zeta i.100 gives an
> estimation of the functionzeta(x), for x =2,where zeta(x) is the Riemann
> zeta function defined for positive integers > 1.
>
> > From: [email protected]
> > Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 13:32:54 -0400
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Zeta Function as Tacit Verb
> >
> > Hypothetically speaking, you can get J to tell you how to build  tacit
> verb.
> >
> > Practically speaking... here's the definitions you gave:
> >
> > pwr =. ^~   NB. this is y to the power x (dyadic tacit verb)
> > recip =. %@ pwr  NB. take the reciprocal
> > zeta =. +/"_ @: z NB. sum all
> >
> > And here's how I would examine them:
> >
> > First, enable linear represenation of verbs:
> >
> >    9!:3]5
> >
> > Second, resolve the names in your definition:
> >
> >    zeta f.
> > |value error: z
> >
> > (oops)
> >
> > It looks like you left out a part of your definition. I've not worked
> with
> > zeta before, and I don't actually know which zeta function you were
> trying
> > to compute. At a guess, though, you were using one that happens to work
> > nicely with this kind of implementation.
> >
> > If you could supply the rest of the definition, though, I think one of us
> > could go into how it works.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Raul
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Jon Hough <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > I have created a tacit verb to calculate the Zeta function for any
> integer
> > > greater than 1.
> > > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ZetaFunction.html
> > > My verb was built up step by step as follows:
> > > pwr =. ^~   NB. this is y to the power x (dyadic tacit verb)
> > > recip =. %@ pwr  NB. take the reciprocal
> > >  zeta =. +/"_ @: z NB. sum all
> > >
> > > I tested it
> > > 2 zeta >: i.100
> > > 1.63498
> > > This seems about right (should be about pi*pi/6)
> > > My first question is: I would like to make my verb in only one line,
> not
> > > using my step-by-step approach. But every time I tried this I got all
> kinds
> > > of errors or the calculation results were hopelessly wrong. How can I
> write
> > > this verb in a single line?
> > > Secondly, I'm still not entirely sure how this works.
> > > If I do 2 pwr 3 then that is 3*3, which is fine, but then doing "recip"
> > > afterwards, I'm not sure how J parses the recip verb as monadic (it
> takes
> > > the reciprocal instead of "2 over". How does J do this?
> > > Lastly, I am not sure why I needed to make +/ to be rank _. That was
> just
> > > a guess. Why is this? I understand it is the way @: and @ interact
> with the
> > > verbs but I'm struggling to see the cause.
> > > Thanks.
> > > Jon
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