I was commenting on the "(I still don't get . )" quip.

Thanks,

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Raul


On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Mike Day <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, Raul, but who/what were you commenting to/on?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On 25/07/2015 20:11, Raul Miller wrote:
>>
>>     1 0 1 +/ .* 10 100 1000
>> 1010
>>
>> The dot product is arguably a key feature of J. This allows you to
>> multiply matrices:
>>
>>     1+i.2 3
>> 1 2 3
>> 4 5 6
>>     7+i.3 2
>>   7  8
>>   9 10
>> 11 12
>>     (7+i.3 2)+/ .*1+i.2 3
>> 39 54  69
>> 49 68  87
>> 59 82 105
>>
>> Note also that you can often use %. to go the other way:
>>
>>     ((7+i.3 2)+/ .*1+i.2 3)%.7+i.3 2
>> 1 2 3
>> 4 5 6
>>
>> But let's save that issue for later...
>>
>> Anyways, what . does is pair up the last dimension of the argument on
>> the left with the first dimension of the argument on the right -
>> combining things with the verb on the right and then applying the verb
>> on the left to that.
>>
>> For example:
>>     7 8 +/ .* 1+i.2 3
>> 39 54 69
>>     7 8 * 1+i.2 3
>>   7 14 21
>> 32 40 48
>>     +/7 8 * 1+i.2 3
>> 39 54 69
>>
>> And we can do the same thing with the other rows of 7+i.3 2:
>>     +/9 10 * 1+i.2 3
>> 49 68 87
>>     +/11 12 * 1+i.2 3
>> 59 82 105
>>
>> And you can see all of these in the result:
>>     (7+i.3 2)+/ .*1+i.2 3
>> 39 54  69
>> 49 68  87
>> 59 82 105
>>
>> Other operations are also possible. For example we can detect
>> collisions between binary lists using *.
>>
>>     0 1 0 1 *. 0 0 1 1
>> 0 0 0 1
>>
>> Or, of course, we could do exactly the same thing with *
>>
>>     0 1 0 1 * 0 0 1 1
>> 0 0 0 1
>>
>> And we can check if there were any collisions using +./
>>     +./ 0 1 0 1 * 0 0 1 1
>> 1
>>
>> So basically, it's just:
>>     dot=:2 :'u@(v"1 _)'
>>
>> And u is usually formed using the / adverb.
>>
>> I hope this helps, but I suspect I'm not doing a very good job of
>> describing the process.
>>
>> Oh well...
>>
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