The answer is more obvious if you use extended precision:

  %. 2 3 4x
2r29 3r29 4r29
  +/*: 2 3 4
29

   (+/@:*:   ;   %. ) x: 1 4 5 8 9
┌───┬─────────────────────────────┐
│187│1r187 4r187 5r187 8r187 9r187│
└───┴─────────────────────────────┘



On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:13 PM, alexgian <alexg...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> Just wondering:
> %. 2 3 4
>    0.0689655 0.103448 0.137931
>
> Which is fair enough enough at one level, I suppose, since the dot product
> of the two arrays IS 1, but what system/equation is being solved here?
> Obviously, there are infinite solutions.  Why that one?
> IOW, which "matrix" is being inverted here?
>
> Thanks
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