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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
