[Jprogramming] 1r3 --> 0.333333

[Ian Clark]

How best should I coerce (if that's an appropriate word to use in a J
context) a noun which possibly contains a rational, eg 1r3, to the
nearest floating-point number?
...So that it outputs as 0.333333 instead of 1r3 ?
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