KEI proposed the word 'report' for anything with more than two axes. There are times that seems to work very well, to my mind.
Actually, I've also toyed with 'brick' as a possibility, but to date have not applied it. On my current project I've chosen 'cube' as the name for the sole three-axis report because it does seem to have some general use in "Enterprise" environments for three-or-more-axis reporting. --Tracy On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > 'cube' was suggested. Raul objected that a cube should have all axes of > equal length. > > 'cuboid' has been used in Ye Dic (in the description of ;.0). According > to Wikipedia a cuboid should have rank 3. And the word seems strained. > > 'hyperrectangle' is used, but it's a fifty-cent word for a ten-cent idea. > > A fancier word is 'orthotope'. Great if you're a Greek scholar. > > Also, 'box', which would be perfect if we weren't using it already. > > How about 'brick'? or 'block'? > > I like 'brick', followed by 'cube'. > > Henry Rich > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
