[Jprogramming] math for the layman

2018-09-21 Thread David Lambert
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[Jprogramming] please fix typo in Math for the Layman

2018-09-21 Thread David Lambert
In the zip archive for Dr. Iverson's book https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Books#Math_for_the_Layman there exists a typographic error. Search for deinition  near the end "A deinition may be displayed directly without displaying the Vocabulary: simply place the cursor just to the left of the sy

Re: [Jprogramming] Tacit form: How to handle intermediate

2018-09-21 Thread Jose Mario Quintana
That is somewhat strange. I am not exactly sure how you are running the script because sometimes the J environment might run a script within an explicit verb without one being necessarily aware of it and some scripts (such as the Wicket Toolkit) can be affected. Try the following: open a new edi

Re: [Jprogramming] The standard deviation of standard deviations

2018-09-21 Thread 'Mike Day' via Programming
Yes, thanks - my idea was that it could then be used with insert to apply to any number of groups of data,  although the benefit was somewhat mitigated by the fact that the monadic instance of nmscomb applies directly to a table of summary stats anyway! FWIW, given a verb, sumstats, which returns

Re: [Jprogramming] The standard deviation of standard deviations

2018-09-21 Thread Devon McCormick
Thanks to everyone who responded. Mike, I like your technique of returning output in the form of input for a future iteration. On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 6:22 PM 'Mike Day' via Programming < programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > It's likely my old stuff was in APL. > > But for now, I've worked up the

Re: [Jprogramming] Tacit form: How to handle intermediate

2018-09-21 Thread 'Mike Day' via Programming
Thanks for that, Jose.  I've downloaded the zip file referred to in your link. It must be somewhere in my J mail folder,  but I couldn't see it!  I suspect my old copy dates from 2015 or 16... I've amended the Ver definition as suggested. You advise against loading the script,  suggesting as (