On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 11:11 AM Devon McCormick <devon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The 'b' notation is useful when importing numbers which were > > originally supplied in non-base-10 format. (Hexadecimal, octal and > > binary are relatively common in some contexts.) > > Even in this case, unless the numbers are already written in J notation, I > don't see how putting a "16b" or "8b" in front of each number is any > simpler than simply doing base conversion.
For example, when converting some graphics or file manipulation code from C to J, I might have a bunch of numbers with 0x prefixes. I can text replace 0x with 16b. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm