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26 February 2024
- 21:2821:28, 26 February 2024 diff hist +25 N Phil S. Abrams Redirected page to Phil Abrams current Tag: New redirect
- 21:2721:27, 26 February 2024 diff hist +3,370 N Phil Abrams Created page with "'''Philip Samuel Abrams''' is an APL implementer who worked on IVSYS/7090, APL\1130, and APL\3000. He is a co-founder of STSC and was briefly chairman of SIGAPL. Abrams graduated Princeton with an A.B. in mathematics in 1964 and entered Stanford, where he would earn an M.S. degree in computer science in 1966 and Ph.D. in 1970. There he worked with Larry Breed, of IBM's wik..."
- 13:3013:30, 26 February 2024 diff hist +13 Comparison tolerance Be more precise in using "tolerant comparison" versus "comparison tolerance" current
- 02:3402:34, 26 February 2024 diff hist +27 N Richard Lathwell Redirected page to Dick Lathwell current Tag: New redirect
- 02:3302:33, 26 February 2024 diff hist +35 N IPSA '84 Redirected page to IPSA conferences#1984 current Tag: New redirect
- 02:3302:33, 26 February 2024 diff hist +30 N IPSA conference Redirected page to IPSA conferences current Tag: New redirect
- 02:3202:32, 26 February 2024 diff hist +3,859 N Dick Lathwell Created page with "'''Richard Henry Lathwell''' was one of the implementers of APL\360, and a designer and implementer at IBM and I.P. Sharp Associates afterwards. He is credited with the practical realization of shared variables in APL.SV, and also published the modern formula for tolerant comparison,<ref>Dick Lathwell. [https://doi.org/10.1145/800114.803685 APL comparison tolerance] at APL76 (also reproduced in [https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/satn23.htm SATN..."
- 02:2902:29, 26 February 2024 diff hist −9 m Larry Breed No edit summary
- 01:5501:55, 26 February 2024 diff hist −14 m Comparison tolerance Wrong standard
- 01:2801:28, 26 February 2024 diff hist 0 m APL.SV No edit summary current
25 February 2024
- 23:0923:09, 25 February 2024 diff hist +269 m Comparison tolerance Naming of "fuzz"
- 23:0523:05, 25 February 2024 diff hist +159 Comparison tolerance Documentation in Dyalog and APLX
- 22:5522:55, 25 February 2024 diff hist +1,533 Comparison tolerance Formula and description
- 21:4421:44, 25 February 2024 diff hist +11 m Index Generator →Scalar-vector discrepancy in nested APLs: Kap also treats singleton vectors as vectors current
- 17:3017:30, 25 February 2024 diff hist −587 Index Generator →Outside of APL: Reformat to better conform to WP MoS
- 15:4315:43, 25 February 2024 diff hist +783 Ken Iverson →Naming things
- 15:1115:11, 25 February 2024 diff hist +1,858 Ken Iverson Interest in naming and the English language
- 03:3803:38, 25 February 2024 diff hist +84 Comparison tolerance No edit summary
- 03:3403:34, 25 February 2024 diff hist +2,206 N Comparison tolerance Created page with "'''Tolerant comparison''' is an inexact form of comparison used to mitigate the impact of floating-point rounding error on programs. It considers two numbers equal when their relative difference is smaller than a parameter called the '''comparison tolerance''', and accessed with the system variable <syntaxhighlight lang=apl inline>⎕CT</syntaxhighlight>. In addition to the comparison functions, tolerance applies to Match and Not Match, Floor, C..."
- 02:4902:49, 25 February 2024 diff hist 0 m Comparison of APL dialects →Language features
- 02:4602:46, 25 February 2024 diff hist +1,764 N Character Created page with ":''This page is about the data type. For the symbols used to write APL code, see Glyph.'' A '''character''' is a scalar array representing a unit of text. In current APLs this generally means a Unicode wikipedia:code point, while historically various custom character sets were used. These accomodated typical text as well as APL code, usually with one byte per character. Characters and numbers are the two basic..." current
24 February 2024
- 20:1620:16, 24 February 2024 diff hist −530 Uiua →Primitives: Remove All since it's now experimental and deprecated; experimental indicator no longer needed
- 15:1115:11, 24 February 2024 diff hist 0 Comparison of APL dialects →Development and platform: APL\3000 went out of support with HP 3000 series III
- 15:0815:08, 24 February 2024 diff hist +16 m Comparison of APL dialects →Development and platform
- 15:0715:07, 24 February 2024 diff hist +19 m Comparison of APL dialects →Development and platform: Change "withdrawn" to "dropped" to better encompass company failure, etc.
- 15:0315:03, 24 February 2024 diff hist 0 Comparison of APL dialects →Development and platform: Presumably NARS stopped being shipped when PLUS II came out?
- 15:0015:00, 24 February 2024 diff hist 0 Comparison of APL dialects →Development and platform: Wikipedia gives 1983 as the closure year for MCM
- 13:1013:10, 24 February 2024 diff hist 0 m OK Version bump current
23 February 2024
- 22:2622:26, 23 February 2024 diff hist +20 N Numeric Redirected page to Number current Tag: New redirect
- 22:2522:25, 23 February 2024 diff hist +34 N Numeric type Redirected page to Number#Numeric types current Tag: New redirect
- 22:2522:25, 23 February 2024 diff hist +34 N Numeric types Redirected page to Number#Numeric types current Tag: New redirect
- 22:2422:24, 23 February 2024 diff hist +16 m Comparison of APL dialects →Numeric types: Link to Number as main page
- 22:2322:23, 23 February 2024 diff hist +4,805 N Number Created page with "In APL, a number is a scalar array representing a mathematical wikipedia:number. Numbers and characters were the only possible element types in APL\360 and remain the basic data types in modern APLs. In addition to quantities for computation, they are used to represent Booleans (0 and 1) and indices. Numeric operations may be subject to floating-point rounding and comparison tolerance. Traditionally, APL provides only one user-visib..."
- 16:1016:10, 23 February 2024 diff hist +165 Comparison of APL dialects Index origin
- 14:2114:21, 23 February 2024 diff hist 0 m Comparison of APL dialects →Numeric types
- 14:1514:15, 23 February 2024 diff hist +1,647 Comparison of APL dialects Expand complex numbers section to numeric types generally
- 00:2400:24, 23 February 2024 diff hist +56 N Soliton Redirected page to I.P. Sharp Associates#Soliton Incorporated current Tag: New redirect
- 00:2200:22, 23 February 2024 diff hist 0 m Comparison of APL dialects →Development and platform
- 00:0800:08, 23 February 2024 diff hist +8,696 Comparison of APL dialects Development and platform
22 February 2024
- 23:2823:28, 22 February 2024 diff hist −1 m APL64 Whitespace current
- 12:2812:28, 22 February 2024 diff hist +882 GNU APL Numeric types current
- 11:5811:58, 22 February 2024 diff hist 0 Comparison of APL dialects →Language features: GNU's (experimental) rationals are limited to 64-bit; no big ints
21 February 2024
- 20:1420:14, 21 February 2024 diff hist 0 Comparison of APL dialects →Language features: APL# changes: functions seem fundamentally anonymous (dfn-like); there are trains
- 19:5819:58, 21 February 2024 diff hist 0 m Comparison of APL dialects →Language features
- 19:5619:56, 21 February 2024 diff hist −247 Comparison of APL dialects →Language features: Collapse the Dyalog extensions
- 19:4219:42, 21 February 2024 diff hist −1,339 Comparison of APL dialects →Language features: Only include one row for old-school APL
- 19:3519:35, 21 February 2024 diff hist +22 N APL*PLUS II Redirected page to APL*PLUS current Tag: New redirect
- 19:3419:34, 21 February 2024 diff hist +170 Comparison of APL dialects →Language features: Separate APL*PLUS from the much later APL*PLUS II
- 19:1519:15, 21 February 2024 diff hist 0 m Comparison of APL dialects →Language features: Re-add APL*PLUS control structures (edit conflict?)
- 19:0719:07, 21 February 2024 diff hist 0 m Comparison of APL dialects →Language features: APL*PLUS had control structures