At 12:01 -0400 2006/05/31, Ralph G Selfridge wrote:
The sort of crazy results you can get if tolerence is not identically zero is a squence of numbers, each of which 'equals' its neighbours but the first and last are not equal.
KEI once pointed out (in response to a question/complaint on this issue from a lecture audience member) - Every carpenter knows this truth. One does not produce a set of equal length boards by using each successive cut off piece as a gauge for the next cut, but rather one must always use the original piece as the gauge for producing (nearly) equal copies. - joey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
