You can use Unicode signs to express what you want and then translate it
into J if you put your mind to it.
206 163 { a.
Σ
You can translate that into +/
You can look for the mathematical symbols you want in pages like
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/mathematical_operators.html
2009/3/14 Don Watson <[email protected]>
> Please review my example at:
>
> http://bcompanion.com/SD
>
> Comment would be appreciated. It seems to me that what I need in order
> to do what I want is not a special fork, but the ability to insert J
> sentences
> into tacit programming. If you can put tacit programming into J sentences,
> why not the other way round? Again, please bear in mind that because you
> may
> not need it, that doesn't mean that others can't make use of it.
>
> What I am looking for is very different from what everyone else on this
> forum wants to use. I want to be able to translate mathematical formulae
> into J in such a way that it is easy to see the parallel between the
> Mathematics and the J. I want to do this because I want J to be used as an
> experiential aid in the teaching of Mathematics. Your use of J is very
> powerful, but it won't mean much to an elementary
> school student, a high school student or a post secondary Geography major.
> I
> am going to keep on bumbling around until I get there.
>
> The J language has pretty much cleaned up the keyboard for symbols. That
> means that the brackets around the J sentence enclosed in the tacit
> programming will have to enclosed between something like "F." and "F:".
> That
> is ugly, but since I am thinking of using it in a situation in which I am
> translating two character primitives, I have used a distinctive pair of
> brackets from another scrip (Snap ITC). That can be changed. I just wanted
> something distinctive. I have used it in an example that attempts to
> parallel the usual mathematical formula for a standard deviation.
> thanks,
>
> Don
>
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