Re: [Jprogramming] Spiral generation

2018-02-02 Thread PR PackRat
I've used spirals for some stock market related stuff, and I found the following to be helpful regarding evolutes (starting in the center and working outward): http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Doc/Articles/Play132 Henry Rich, J programming forum, 24 Dec 2012 and 27 Dec 2012 Hope this helps a bit!

Re: [Jprogramming] Another Quora Problem

2017-08-29 Thread PR PackRat
On 8/29/17, Roger Hui wrote: > The version I heard was that the math teacher wanted to have a rest, so > assigned +/1+i.100 to the class. Gauss got the answer right away. The rest > of the class labored for the entire hour. The only correct answer was > submitted by Gauss. Roger's version of the

Re: [Jprogramming] Another Quora Problem

2017-08-28 Thread PR PackRat
On 8/28/17, Jose Mario Quintana wrote: > You can try Zsban Ambrus' TacitToExplict script [0] "It's not perfect, so > some strange verbs might not work." > I hope it helps. > > [0] Scripts/TacitToExplicit Zsban Ambrus > http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Scripts/TacitToExplicit Thanks for this ci

Re: [Jprogramming] Another Quora Problem

2017-08-28 Thread PR PackRat
Dear Group: On 8/28/17, Jose Mario Quintana wrote: > The tacit translator was my faithful teacher a long time ago and I still > use it occasionally, nowadays to understand non-tacit code. Is there any translator (or is it impossible?) to go the opposite way, that is, tacit to explicit? At my ba

[Jprogramming] How to tell if all boxes in a row are empty?

2016-05-31 Thread PR PackRat
I need to perform a certain action if an entire row in a transposed table (i.e., originally a column) has empty values, that is, all boxed data are the equivalent of a: or ''. The result should be a Boolean value--"true" meaning that the entire row has empty values. (A typical application would b

[Jprogramming] Help with date formatting

2016-05-30 Thread PR PackRat
Hi, Group! I'd like to be able to change this: ┌──┬──┬──┐ │4-Apr-1930│5-Apr-1930│6-Apr-1930│ └──┴──┴──┘ into this: ┌──┬──┬──┐ │1930-04-04│1930-04-05│1930-04-06│ └──┴──┴──┘ Although I've been using J