I thought that possibly sparse matrices might be a way to handle missing
values, particularly if there a lot of undefined values. But couldn't
figure out how to specify the sparse element to be _. .

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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,
> >>>
> >>>
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