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Volume 12, 1995–1996

N°1, July 1995

Page Article Author
3 Editorial Anthony Camacho
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
6 APL96 Western Europe
7 Correspondence (PDF)
7  Too Much Diversity in APL? Joseph De Kerf
9  Minutes of Annual General Meeting, Friday 19 May 1995 Sylvia Camacho
11 British APL Association Annual Accounts
13 News from Sustaining Members Gill Smith
17 The Education Vector Ian Clark
20  Jot-Dot-Min: Stereo Vision Ian Clark
25  J-ottings 6: Indexing Arrays in J Norman Thomson
30  J – Where Have All the Variables Gone? Walter Spunde
33 APL Product Guide — Updates Gill Smith
38 Book Review: *Making APL Readable* Anthony Camacho
RECENT MEETINGS: APL95 at San Antonio
41 Conference Reports
51  Machine Learning Algorithms Jon Sandles
53  Business Graphics Workshop Adrian Smith
56  Portability Workshop Eke van Batenburg
GENERAL ARTICLES
60 Voyages in Dragon Country Sylvia Camacho
67 Teaching with an Executable Notation (Part 2) Ken Iverson
74 Multiprecision Arithmetic (Part 1) John Sullivan
The Random Vector
86 Probabilities for Elementary Distributions Alan Sykes
93 A Quite Different New Primitive Gérard Langlet
102 The Complete Elliptic Integrals and APL Joseph De Kerf
106  Production Manager’s Observation
107 The Common Mean, Non-negative Definite Matrices, and APL Dietrich Trenkler
TECHNICAL SECTION
114 Hacker’s Corner: Driving the MS Daisy-wheel Ray Cannon
120 A Virtual Classroom
121 Technical Correspondence (PDF)
121  More Thoughts on Dragons Gérard Langlet
123  Non-Syllogistic Mathematical Proof (PDF) Gérard Langlet
123   Letter: Non-Syllogistic Mathematical Proof (PDF only) Gérard Langlet
123   Letter: Non-syllogistic mathematical proof Gérard Langlet
125 At Work and Play with J: Gene McDonnell
129 “Correct” Windows File Behaviour Duncan Pearson
137 Native File Functions for Dyalog APL (PDF only) Adrian Smith
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°2, October 1995

Page Article Author
3 Editorial: Is There Anybody Out There? Anthony Camacho
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
6 APL96 Lancaster Adrian Smith
7 Correspondence (PDF)
7  Proposed common APL coding Bill Chang
9  Some Comments Adrian Smith
10 British APL Association News Sylvia Camacho
11 News from Sustaining Members Gill Smith
17 The Education Vector Ian Clark
21  J-ottings 7: Control Structures Norman Thomson
26  Polynomial Interpolation Antje Muller
31  Matrix Decomposition Norman Thomson
33 APL Product Guide — Full Gill Smith
46 Dyalog APL/W for Windows 95 — First Impressions Adrian Smith
RECENT MEETINGS
50 DDE Workshop Notes Duncan Pearson
GENERAL ARTICLES
56 The Ball Clock Problem Roger Hui
67 Is APL a Team Sport? Douglas Bohrer
76 Multiprecision Arithmetic (Part II) John Sullivan
The Random Vector
87 Computing Clopper-Pearson Confidence Limits by the Illinois Method Dietrich Trenkler
95 The Incomplete Elliptic Integrals and APL Joseph De Kerf
TECHNICAL SECTION
102 Hacker’s Corner: Gremlins, Pixels and Brownie Points
105 Technical Correspondence (PDF)
105  APL-Fortran calls using ⎕NA R.G Selfridge
109  Calculating Probabilities Norman Thomson
111  Floating-Point Precision Joseph De Kerf
113  Microsoft Announces APL for the 8088 - almost 20 years late! (PDF) Adrian Smith
115 At Work and Play with J: The Bauer-Mengelberg Problem Gene McDonnell
123 Elegant Programming Chris Burke
131 A Fractal Verb in J Richard Oates
135 Tilting at Windmills: a New Attack on Nested Arrays Douglas Bohrer
141 J Locales Richard Oates
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°3, January 1996

Page Article Author
3 Editorial: the Place of APL Anthony Camacho
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
6 APL96: Call for Participation
11 News from Sustaining Members Gill Smith
17 The Education Vector Ian Clark
21  Counting Problem Tony Goddard
27  Towers of Hanoi, Simplified in J Howard Peelle
27  J-ottings 8: Transcribing from APL to J Norman Thomson
33 APL Product Guide Gill Smith
47 Experiences with the Use of Causeway Jan Karman
51 Managing Objects in Causeway Jon Sandles
55 The Kunzle Planning System (KPS) Ian Clark
RECENT MEETINGS
60 Share-Guide and APL Club Germany Adrian Smith
61  Putting a GUI Interface on Legacy Systems Jim Brown
63 GENERAL ARTICLES
64 Font for the Future Eke van Batenburg
70 Multiprecision Arithmetic III John Sullivan
79 Turtle Graphics in J David Benn
98 3-Dimensional Noughts and Crosses Duncan Pearson
108 Rain - Extending to 3D Adrian Smith
The Random Vector
117 A Note on Programming Style Roger Hui and K.E. Iverson
122 The Incomplete Elliptic Integrals and APL - an Extension Joseph De Kerf
TECHNICAL SECTION
127 Hacker’s Corner: Oh **** !! I Hadn’t Saved That! Dave Phillips
130 Technical Correspondence (PDF)
130  Fractions as Sequences of Integers Norman Thomson
131  Miaou = Cat! Claude Henriod
133 At Work and Play with J: Heron’s Rule & Integer-Area Triangles Gene McDonnell
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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N°4, April 1996

Page Article Author
3 Editorial Anthony Camacho
APL NEWS
5 Quick Reference Diary
6 APL96 Invitation and Abstracts
12 News from Sustaining Members Gill Smith
17 The Education Vector Ian Clark
20  Jot-Dot-Min: Weaving Patterns and Cellular Automata Ian Clark
27  J-ottings 9: The Power Conjunction Norman Thomson
32  Towers of Hanoi from 15 Years Ago Adrian Smith
33 APL Product Guide — Updates Gill Smith
38 AP119/W - a First Look Timo Laurmaa
47 The JADS/SMS Utility Management System Jon Sandles
56 Dyalog-8 Control Structures and Native Files: some Timings Adrian Smith
RECENT MEETINGS
58 Causeway at the Toronto APL/SIG Marc Griffiths
GENERAL ARTICLES
64 Migration From APL2 to APL/W Rex Swain
73 Multiprecision Arithmetic Part IV John Sullivan
The Random Vector
81 Polynomial Multiplication with Circulant Matrices: Insights Using APL Lew Robinson
98 Confidence Limits Norman Thomson
TECHNICAL SECTION
108 Hacker’s Corner: A New Frock for IRMA Adrian Smith
112 Technical Correspondence (PDF)
112  Divided Differences: Reply to Hui & Iverson Norman Thomson
116 A Different DDE Application John Sullivan
119 An Internet Extension to 3D Noughts and Crosses Timo Laurmaa
123 At Work and Play with J: Year’s Digits for 1996 Gene McDonnell
113 Linear Recurrences and Matrix Powers Roger Hui
127 Roger and the Amazing Technicolor Ballclock Norman Thomson
131 Index to Volumes 1 - 12
143 Index to Advertisers (PDF)

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