J has complex numbers, including imaginary numbers, actually.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul


On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:42 PM, Donna Y <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are Natural numbers that can be used for counting (Cardinal) and 
> ordering (Ordinal).
>
> Indexing arrays is an instance of Ordinals.
>
> Counting elements in arrays is an instance of Cardinal.
>
> J might not have Irrational or Imaginary or Complex numbers but it does have 
> Natural numbers which can be used as Ordinal or Cardinal even if J does not 
> declare that type. There might be Real or Integer or Rational numbers. The 
> natural numbers with 0, correspond to the non-negative integers
>
>
> Donna Y
> [email protected]
>
>
>> On May 31, 2018, at 1:22 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Jose Mario Quintana
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Are you referring to the notation you invented, here?
>>>
>>> The notation I invented?
>>
>> Oops, I thought you were Bo, for some reason. I don't remember all the
>> details of the notations he has proposed. But that's my mistake and
>> not a relevant tangent in this thread, for now at least.
>>
>>>> When I try to look up "finite mathematical ordinals" I don't see
>>>> anything significant with that label. And when I try to parse that
>>>
>>> In general, mathematical ordinals and mathematical cardinals are not the
>>> same.
>>
>> They are indeed different abstractions. Howeve, that does not mean
>> that there's no equivalences between them.
>>
>>>> phrase as individual words, I see no contradiction with what I had
>>>> said.
>>>
>>> I do not see one either (often I respond to posts in sequence without
>>> necessarily having read all the subsequent posts).
>>
>> Fair enough.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Raul
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