The Dyalog Blog

280 blog posts in 36 categories covering APL insights, company news and events, innovative projects, and more.

Morten was visiting Dyalog clients and forwarded a request: Can we have the Cholesky decomposition? If A is a Hermitian, positive-definite matrix, its Cholesky... Read
The most obvious expression for computing π in APL is ○1. But what if you can’t remember how ○ works, or your O key is broken, or you feel like... Read
Roger’s post speculating on Ken Iverson’s favourite APL expression reminded me that one of the delegates at Dyalog ’14 conducted a quick... Read
Quicksort is a classic sorting algorithm invented by C.A.R. Hoare in 1961 [0, 1]. It has been known for some time that quicksort has a terse rendition in APL... Read
What was Ken Iverson’s favourite APL expression? I don’t know that he had one and if he had I don’t know what it was, but if I have to guess …... Read
In one man’s humble opinion, reduction (⌿) is the Queen of Operators. Each (¨) comes a close second, but doesn’t get the cigar because each can... Read
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