Are there any rules for how Indeterminate (-.) combines with other
arithmetic operations on numbers? (The Dictionary entry is suprisingly spare).
I see that (as I would have expected)
1 2 3 + 1 -. 3 is 2 -. 6
and that <: 1 _. 3 is 0 _. 2
but on the other hand I was a bit surprised that
1 2 3 <. 1 -. 3 is 1 2 3
Why?
I was hoping to be able to use Indeterminate as a missing data code
in some data I'm manipulating, hoping that subsequent data
transformations would respect it. If that seems to be a bad idea, can
anyone suggest an alternative?
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Philip A. Viton
City Planning, Ohio State University
275 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus OH 43210
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