Intro 29. Secondaries

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29. Secondaries
It is convenient to supplement the primitives or primaries provided in a language by secondaries whose names belong to an easily recognized class. The following examples use names beginning with a capital letter:

`Ad=:` | `[ 0:}-@>:@$@]{.]` | Append diagonal scalar
`Ai=:` | `>:@i.` | Augmented integers
`Area=:` | `[: Det ] ,. %@!@#"1` | Area (Vol) try`Area tet=:0,=i.3`
`Bc=:` | `i. !/ i.` | Binomial coefficients
`Bca=:` | `%.@Bc` | Binomial coefficients (alternating)
`By=:` | `' '&;@,.@[ ,. ]` | By (format; see`Ta`)
`Cpa=:` | `]%.i.@#@]^/Ei@[` | Coeffs of poly approx
`CPA=:` | `(@])%.i.@#@]^/Ei@[` | Coeffs of poly approx (adverb)
`Det=:` | `-/ . *` | Determinant
`Dpc=:` | `1: }. ] * i.@#` | Differentiate poly coeffs
`D1=:` | `("0)(D.1)` | Derivative (scalar, first)
`Ei=:` | `i.@(+*+0&=)` | Extended integers
`Epc=:` | `Bc@# X ]` | Expand poly coeffs
`Ipc=:` | `0: , ] % Ai@#` | Integrate poly coeffs
`Inv=:` | `^:_1` | Inverse
`Id=:` | `=@i.` | Identity matrix
`Mat=:` | `-: /:~` | Monotone ascending test
`Mdt=:` | `-: \:~` | Monotone descending test
`Mrg=:` | `+&$ {. ,@(|:@,:)` | Merge
`Over=:` | `({.;}.)@":@,` | Over (format; see`Ta`)
`Pad=:` | `2 :'x.%.]^/Ei@(y."_)'` | Polynomial approx of degree
`Pp=:` | `+//.@(*/)` | Polynomial coeffs product
`Si=:` | `(Ei@+: - |) : (-/ i.)` | Symmetric and subsiding int
`Span=:` | `2 : 'y."_ x.\ ]'` | Span of apply of left arg
`S1=:` | `|:@|@(^!._1/~%.^/~)@i.` | Stirling numbers (1st kind)
`S2=:` | `|:@ (^/~%.^!._1/~)@i.` | Stirling numbers (2nd kind)
`Ta=:` | `1 : '[By]Over x./'` | Table adverb
`Thr=:` | `] * 0.1&^@[ <: |@]` | Threshold for non-zero
`Tile=:` | `$@]{.[$~$@]+2:|1:+$@]` | Tile (try`0 1 Tile i. 2 3 4`)
`X=:` | `+/ . *` | Times (matrix product)
`XA=:` | `-/ . *` | Times (alternating)

Exercises

29.1 | Enter the definitions of the secondaries (or at least those used in these exercises), and then enter the following expressions:
    (Ai 2 3);(Ai 2 _3);(Ei 2 3);(Ei 2 _3)
    (i.;i.@-;Ai;Ai@-;Ei;Ei@-) 4
    (Si 4);(7 4 Si 4)
    +Ta~@i. 4
    (S1;S2) 7
    (];X/;%/;%./;(%./%{.)) y=: (Bc ,: Bca) 5
    (0 1&Cb;1 _1&Cb) i. 2 3 4
29.2 | Perform further experiments with the secondaries.

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