But are they all evaluated in one go, or are you already buffering the data, as suggested by several correspondents? If the latter is the case, different buffers might give rise to “different” values...
But we haven’t seen your data. Can you reproduce the apparent error on an example that’s small enough to share with the forum? Cheers, Mike Sent from my iPad > On 20 Aug 2021, at 09:16, Pablo Landherr <pablo.landh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just noticed I wrote *do* wrong. I meant ". > > Why would ". convert the same repeated character string into different (on > a bit level) numbers? > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 7:33 PM Pablo Landherr <pablo.landh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> OK, I buy that. However, the origin of the data makes this dubious. The >> data is imported as characters, so what I have is a bunch (thousands) of >> '0.05' converted in one go by ": >> Why would ": convert the same repeated character string of '0.05' into >> different numbers on a bit level? >> >> Kr, >> Pablo >> >> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 7:13 PM Brian Schott <schott.br...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Try this? >>> >>> cf =: 3 : '(~.y),.#/.~y ' >>> imp =: -,+ >>> 0.05 imp 0.1*9!:18 '' >>> 0.05 0.05 >>> ~. 0.05 imp 0.1*9!:18 '' >>> 0.05 0.05 >>> cf 0.05 imp 0.1*9!:18 '' >>> 0.05 1 >>> 0.05 1 >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> (B=) >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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
