The rank is reduced by one. So the rank 2 is reduced to one.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020, 11:33 AM Thomas Bulka <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I do have some difficulties in understanding a certain behavior. Let's
> assume, I define the classical mean verb, a row vector and a column
> vector:
>
> mean =: +/ % #
> rvec =: 1 2 3
> cvec =: 3 1 $ 1 2 3
>
> When I apply mean to rvec I get the result 2 (as expected), which
> happens to be a scalar ($$ mean rvec yields 0). When I apply mean to
> cvec the result is a vector ($$ mean cvec yields 1). I'd like to
> understand, why this behavior has been chosen. Do you have any hints for
> me?
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas
>
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