It doesn’t ignore the imaginary part but associativity is
(2e4)j1.4 rather than 2e(4j1.4)
But 2e3.4 ought to work.
And why would it rather be an error than 2p3.4?
Every line of code has Levenshtein distance 1 to something that doesn’t
work.
Making 2e3.4 work at the very least helps solve the useful problem of
learning the syntax of J numeric literals.
Am 08.11.21 um 16:21 schrieb 'robert therriault' via Programming:
Also scientific notation can take complex numbers but it ignores the imaginary
part which means that the imaginary part can be non integers.
2e4j1.4
20000j1.4
Cheers, bob
On Nov 8, 2021, at 04:09, 'Mike Day' via Programming
<[email protected]> wrote:
Also, surely the integer restriction is consistent with the “scientific
notation” that’s so pervasive in science and in computer languages.
Cheers,
Mike
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On 8 Nov 2021, at 11:47, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
Conceptually, 2e3.4 would be 2 * 10^3.4 or approximately 5023.77
But, the code path for handling the part on the right of the 'e'
currently only handles integer values.
So when you ask "why", I guess you are asking "why not allow any
values representable by the constant format".
And, I think the reason there is that 2e3.4 is more likely to be a
typographical error than an intentional use of the notation. These
language choices are somewhat heuristical, of course, but try thinking
of it this way:
"If this were possible, what useful problems would it help solve?"
Thanks,
--
Raul
On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 12:17 AM Elijah Stone <[email protected]> wrote:
2x3.4
59.9282
2p3.4
98.0256
2e3.4
|ill-formed number
| 2e3.4
| ^
Whyn't?
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