Thanks everyone, a fascinating and wide ranging set of applications. Regards, Rob.
> On 10 Oct 2017, at 17:05, J. Patrick Harrington <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not "real world", more "out ot this world". I use J for most of my > exploratory calculations in astrophysics. E.g., > > http://www.astro.umd.edu/~jph/J_page.html > > Cheers, Patrick > >> On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Rob B wrote: >> My many trips around the J home website have given me the impression that J >> is very much geared to maths and puzzles. >> >> I would be genuinely interested in reading about real world appllications of >> J. >> >> Regards, Rob Burns. >> >>> On 10 Oct 2017, at 02:43, Don Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The possibility of a forum dealing with the extended variations would be >>> useful in that the present forum would then deal with more realistic >>> problems rather than the more esoteric ones. We don't need to slow down >>> operations, useful to all, to satisfy the needs of a few. >>> Any digital expression is limited by machine word limits and data limits. >>> Machine limits exceed data limits in most cases- -useful where multiple >>> operations result in digital fuzz that is insignificant relative to real >>> data fuzz. >>> Don Kelly >>>> On 2017-10-09 12:29 PM, Raul Miller wrote: >>>> I think this proposal would require, at minimum, a rewrite of ve.c >>>> Also, each primitive which takes numeric arguments and/or produces a >>>> numeric result would need a test to make sure it behaved properly for >>>> each different mode of number handling. >>>> Want to take a crack at it? >>>> Thanks, >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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
