http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d602.htm <https://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d602.htm> , under the ": entry of the dictionary. It's been there since 2005.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 9:04 PM HH PackRat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/11/19, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > > The definitive documentation of J is NuVoc > > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc > > ": is described in > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/quoteco#dyadic > and Chris Burke said essentially the same thing. > > I'm very familiar with the ": primitive. It was the 0j4 > construction that I don't recall coming across before for numeric > formatting. > > I would never have thought to look under imaginary numbers in NuVoc to > find out how to format a numeric result for display (0j4 or 6j2, for > example). Besides, the imaginary numbers section in NuVoc doesn't > deal with numeric display formatting at all. I also saw it mentioned > in the "Vocabulary/quoteco" section where it was used but never > defined. (Based on context there, my guess is that the first digit > relates to the digits to display to the left of the decimal point and > that the second digit relates to the number of digits to display to > the right of the decimal point. But where is that definition to be > found?) As with imaginary numbers, I would never have thought to look > under ": to find out about even using 0j4. > > So my question still stands: where do I find the definition of the > type of numeric formatting such as the 0j4 construction? How would I > have found it by searching the wiki if I didn't know the 0j4 type of > construction in the first place? > > Harvey > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
