You almost had it.  I've fixed the error below.

Henry Rich

On 6/8/2011 5:41 PM, Squint6 wrote:
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> Hi,
>
>
> I have just started with J and I have a question concerning rank (I think).
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> I don't understand why the following does what it does:
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> a=. 2 2 $ i.4
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> b=.+/a
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> c=.+/"1 a
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> After executing these lines
> a contains
> 0 1
> 2 3
> b contains 2 4 and
> c contains 1 5
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>
> I understand where b is coming from but c's value confuses me.  Here's how my 
> (faulty) reasoning about c=.+/"1 a goes.

> The "1 applies to the verb (+/) giving it a rank of 1.  Therefore (+/) is 
> applied to the 1-cells of a,

> which I believe are the lists (0 1) and (2 3).
ERROR FIXED HERE:
>Therefore we have (+/ 0 1) , (+/ 2 3)
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>
> Thanks.
> Kent
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