That looks like an invisible character problem. Anyways, I copied and pasted your line that gave you the ill-formed number and it worked fine for me.
-- Raul On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Richard Donovan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:39:42 -0400 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Drop trailing zeros in a number >> >> Try putting "x" at the end of the long number to retain precision: >> >> |.&.":^:2: 123450245000x >> >> This is a cute trick. >> > > Not always!!! > > |.&.":^:2: 123450245060x > |ill-formed number > | |.&.":^:2:123450245060 > > > |.&.":^:2: 123450245000000000001x > 20 > > |.&.":^:2: 1234502450000000000010x > 20 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
