Re: New PDF Manual
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Dec 18, 2010
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DanM said...
I suspect that maybe this is simply ignorance on my part, but:
In "CHAPTER 61. MATH 61.2. ROUNDINGS AND REMAINDERS", what does "shape" mean?
As in:
"Returns: An object, the shape of which depends on dividend's and divisor's."
The same term is used later in that section, too.
Dan
The shape of an object is firstly, whether it's an atom or a sequence, and secondly for a sequence, how deeply nested it is.
{1,2,3} and {4,5,6} have the same shape, as do 9.8 and -123.
{1,2,3} and {"1","2","3"} have different shapes, as 0 and "" have different shapes.
