I think Erling meant "add" in the sense of appending 1 to the empty list,
rather than "add" as an arithmetical operation.
That's my n-penny-worth!
Mike
On 20/12/2017 12:25, Raul Miller wrote:
You are multiplying, not adding.
-- Raul On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:39 AM, Erling Hellenäs
<[email protected]> wrote:
*/i.0
1
Here the interpreter automatically adds a 1 to get this peculiar result.
/Erling
Den 2017-12-19 kl. 20:01, skrev Raul Miller:
An empty tank zero array would be inconsistent.
The number of elements in an array is the product of its dimensions, and
the multiplicative identity is 1, not 0.
Thanks,
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