Thank you, Raul!

Documentation keeps pointing me to NuVoc and I completely forgot about the
extra details in the Dictionary.  Great info. Thanks.

I just found this as well -
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Tacit_Expressions

I'm good now.

thank you.

On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 3:30 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> https://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d631.htm
>
>    x u&.v y ↔ vi (v x) u (v y)
>
> Here:
>    u is +
>    v is *:
>    vi is %: (or *:inv)
>   x is 3
>   y is 4
>
> So these are equivalent
>    3 +&.*: 4
>    %: (*:3) + (*: 4)
>    *:inv (*:3) + (*: 4)
>
> I hope this makes sense.
>
> --
> Raul
>
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 3:03 PM More Rice <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > (Sorry for the previous empty email - web page problem)
> >
> > please excuse another newbie question ...
> >
> > Ref: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/starco
> >
> >    pythag =:  +&.*:
> >    3 pythag 4
> > 5
> >
> > + operated dyadically and acted on both x and y - ok.
> >
> > but how does *: know to act on x as well?  Isn't pythag using the monadic
> > definition of *: to square y only?
> >
> > so magical ...
> >
> > thank you for the pointer and have a great weekend.
> >
> >
> > Maurice
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