On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (But I cheated and used Python to get that, so I can't answer your > question about the difference :-))
Hopefully it's obvious that the answer you get from 5^100 is an approximate answer. Representing that approximate answer as an exact integer will not change the answer into the number that you would have gotten instead if you had used 5^100x or 5x^100 or 5x^100x However, I do sometimes wish that I could get J to represent exact integers with a trailing x. ]a=: 100x 100 ]b=: 100 100 a -:&x:&(^~) b 0 -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
