Addons and labs need to change to use cover adverb and I think it will work
even better than before because D. can be enhanced much easier if it is
implemented in J scripts.



On Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 9:08 AM Ben Gorte <[email protected]> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> I was in a Geodesy department for many years and am still doing those kind
> of things. Geodesists are the well-known masters of least-squares
> adjustment, but not being a geodesist myself, most of my career is based on
> the Best Fit lab, notably on the (in)famous adverb:
>
> Nwtn =: adverb def 'y - (u y)%.(u D.1 y)'
>
>
> I guess it's getting time for retirement :-)
>
>
> Greetings from Sydney,
>
> Ben
>
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 09:05, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > J has supported symbolic differentiation and integration for some time.
> > Starting with Release 9.01, primitive support for calculus is withdrawn.
> >
> > The calculus primitives were a proof-of-concept that was an incomplete
> > success.  They worked, but they were not complete, and the nature of
> > mathematics is such that they will never be complete.  It has long been
> > clear that they should have been implemented in a J script, which would
> > be much easier to expand & maintain.
> >
> > The primitives for Taylor series - t. t: T. - are terminated with
> > extreme prejudice.
> >
> > The primitives for differentiation and integration - d. D. D: - are also
> > removed, but they are going to a Better Place.  A new addon,
> > math/calculus, is now available.  It provides most of the features of
> > the calculus primitives.  Interested users are encouraged to fix &
> > expand this addon to give support for more methods of integration and
> > differentiation.
> >
> > Henry Rich
> >
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