Bug in WS 1 STAT

2019-12-20 Thread Mr. Brian B. McGuinness
Looking through the functions in workspace 1 STAT I noticed that stat∆skewness calls stat∆pearson with no argument (under line label "four"): ∇skewness←stat∆pearson vector;mm;md;sd ⍝ Function returns the Pearson coefficient of skewness mn←stat∆mean vector←,vector md←stat∆median vector

Comments on GNU APL

2020-01-09 Thread Mr. Brian B. McGuinness
1. On startup of GNU APL 1.8 I get the error message: The following directories and file names were tried: directory /usr/local/lib/apl directory /usr/lib/apl file ./libemacs.so (No such file or directory) file ./libemacs.dylib

Errors in GNU APL documentation page

2020-06-03 Thread Mr. Brian B. McGuinness
The examples for 3.15 Monadic ⊢ and ⊣, dyadic ⊢ with Axis should read: A←2 3⍴'abcdef' B←2 3⍴⍳6 X←2 3⍴0 1 0 1 0 1 A ⊢[X] B a 2 c 4 e 6 A ⊢[X] '*' a*c *e* '*' ⊢[X] B * 2 * 4 * 6 (I have copied and pasted this code from an actual GNU APL session.)

Problem compiling GNU APL 1.8 on LMDE 5

2022-05-20 Thread Mr. Brian B. McGuinness
I just upgraaded to Linux Mint Debian Edition 5. This requires me to reinstall GNU APL, which was on the root partition, which was wiped and reformatted. I tried ./configure --with-postgresql RATIONAL_NUMBERS_WANTED=yes but the configure program couldn't find PostgreSQL, even though it is

Large numbers seem not to be parsed properly

2023-01-05 Thread Mr. Brian B. McGuinness
GNU APL2: 12345678909876543210 1.234567891E20 10⍟12345678909876543210 20.09151498 10⍟12345678909876543210.0 20.09151498 123456789098765432100 1.234567891E21 32 0 ⍕12345678909876543210 123456789098765434870 32 0 ⍕123456789098765432100

Minor errors in the quick tour

2023-03-15 Thread Mr. Brian B. McGuinness
These are a few things I noticed while glancing over the document: In section 3.1.2, the sequence \a is shown as evaluating to both NUL and BEL. Checking with quad AV, it appears that \0 will produce NUL and \a will produce BEL. In the table in section 3.4.9, the definition of equal has three