Re: [Jprogramming] 3 x:@^ 33 is not odd on a Mac or iOS

2023-04-27 Thread bill lam
on apple m1 <. 3 ^ 33 555906056624 16": 3 ^ 33 555906056623 3^33x 555906056623 On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 11:37 AM bill lam wrote: > I can reproduce this bug on apple m1 and android arm64. > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 11:01 AM 'robert therriault' via Programming < > programm...

Re: [Jprogramming] 3 x:@^ 33 is not odd on a Mac or iOS

2023-04-27 Thread bill lam
I can reproduce this bug on apple m1 and android arm64. On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 11:01 AM 'robert therriault' via Programming < programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > This is not a problem on the Windows platform according to Raul, but I > thought I should alert those who might be counting on powers

[Jprogramming] 3 x:@^ 33 is not odd on a Mac or iOS

2023-04-27 Thread 'robert therriault' via Programming
This is not a problem on the Windows platform according to Raul, but I thought I should alert those who might be counting on powers of 3 above 33 being odd. I see the same results in J806 which is as far back as I test. Also, seems to be a problem for both J901 and J701 on iOS Cheers, bob 3

Re: [Jprogramming] How should the new m. deal with missing reciprocals?

2023-04-27 Thread Raul Miller
Hmm... Looking at this, the domain errors do seem analogous to divide by zero errors. So, in the context of %m.n, if we were being purely symmetric, a 0 result when both the numerator and denominator were effectively 0 would be the way to go, with an infinite result for the remaining cases. (Infi

[Jprogramming] How should the new m. deal with missing reciprocals?

2023-04-27 Thread 'Michael Day' via Programming
Henry has introduced a new primitive for finite arithmetic,  m. NuVoc already has an entry in    https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc and further details in    https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/mdot In accordance with the current beta,  we see on that page:     "     x % m. n y, and x