Mostly, I am learning about Primes and learning "J". I professionally (made money) used and enjoyed APL back when I was in my 30s, but it has been 30+ years.
About 3 months ago, I came across "J" when doing problems at the Euler project: http://projecteuler.net So anyhow, no real reason, just making my brain do things the J-way to stimulate some neurons! ----- Original Message Follows ----- From: Dan Bron <[email protected]> To: Programming forum <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Mersenne Prime initialization. Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:30:59 -0400 >Butch Lakeshore wrote: >> any thoughts? > >Not regarding powGB. But I do have a though regarding your >goals. If you do find an efficient way to initialize these >large numbers, what then? > >I imagine manipulating them in any significant way will >also be slow. > >Of course you could try to find efficient reimplementations >of standard functions, but then you start to lose the value >of J as a notation. > >-Dan >----------------------------------------------------------- >----------- For information about J forums see >http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
