No; see http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/under Details
http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/percent#dyadic Details It would perhaps be better if 0 * _5 gave -0, but it doesn't. The other deviations are improvements added by J. Henry Rich On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Erling Hellenäs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all ! > > Here is part of the standard. Required exception handling. Things I > discuss in my post. Is it implemented in J? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > IEEE_754#Exception_handling > The floating point standard is obviously used in environments where the > users can not afford random results, so there must be solutions to the > problems I mention, which we also can see in this wikipedia article. > > Cheers, > Erling > > > Den 2017-09-20 kl. 16:27, skrev Erling Hellenäs: > >> I hope others want to read my post even if Raul discards it as not worthy >> of comments. /Erling >> >> >> Den 2017-09-20 kl. 12:25, skrev Raul Miller: >> >>> This isn't just J - this is the IEEE-754 floating point standard. >>> >>> It would be really nice if computers could deal with infinities, >>> instantly, at no cost. Sadly, though, that's not going to happen. >>> >>> FYI, >>> >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
