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| author | Marshall Lochbaum <mwlochbaum@gmail.com> | 2021-07-01 19:34:17 -0400 |
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| committer | Marshall Lochbaum <mwlochbaum@gmail.com> | 2021-07-01 19:34:17 -0400 |
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diff --git a/docs/doc/scan.html b/docs/doc/scan.html index 64deae85..1f572239 100644 --- a/docs/doc/scan.html +++ b/docs/doc/scan.html @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ <p>The 1-modifier Scan (<code><span class='Modifier'>`</span></code>) moves along the first axis of the array <code><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code>, building up an array of results by applying <code><span class='Function'>๐ฝ</span></code> repeatedly beginning with <code><span class='Value'>๐จ</span></code> or <code><span class='Function'>โ</span><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code>. It's related to the fold modifiers, and most closely resembles the <a href="fold.html#apl2-reduction">APL2-style reduction</a> <code><span class='Modifier'>ยจห</span></code>, but it traverses the array in forward rather than reverse index order, and includes all intermediate results of <code><span class='Function'>๐ฝ</span></code> in its output instead of just the final one.</p> <p>BQN's Scan is ordered differently from Scan in APL. Both include one result for each non-empty prefix of <code><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code>. In BQN this is a left-to-right fold, so that each new result requires one application of <code><span class='Function'>๐ฝ</span></code>. APL uses a right-to-left ordering, which matches with reduction, but requires starting over at the end for each new prefix, except in special cases. If needed, this definition can be obtained with a fold on each <a href="prefixes.html">prefix</a> except the first (which is empty). In the particular case of <code><span class='Function'>-</span><span class='Value'>โ</span></code>, that nested solution isn't needed: negate odd-indexed elements and then apply <code><span class='Function'>+</span><span class='Modifier'>`</span></code>.</p> <p>Scan also differs from Fold or Insert in that it never depends on <code><span class='Function'>๐ฝ</span></code>'s identity element, because scanning over an empty array simply returns that array.</p> -<h2 id="examples">Examples</h2> +<h2 id="lists">Lists</h2> <p>The best-known use of Scan is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix_sum">prefix sum</a> of a list, in which each element of the result is the sum of that element and all the ones before it. With a <a href="shift.html">shift</a> this can be modified to sum the previous elements only.</p> <a class="replLink" title="Open in the REPL" target="_blank" href="https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/try.html#code=K2AgMuKAvzTigL8z4oC/MQoKK2DCuzLigL804oC/M+KAvzEgICMgRXhjbHVzaXZlIHByZWZpeCBzdW0=">โ๏ธ</a><pre> <span class='Function'>+</span><span class='Modifier'>`</span> <span class='Number'>2</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>4</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>3</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>1</span> โจ 2 6 9 10 โฉ @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ <span class='Brace'>{</span><span class='Function'>ยฌ<</span><span class='Modifier'>`</span><span class='String'>'\'</span><span class='Function'>=</span><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span><span class='Brace'>}</span><span class='Modifier2'>โธ</span><span class='Function'>/</span> <span class='String'>"ab\\\rs\\\\"</span> "ab\rs\\" </pre> -<h3 id="reverse-scan">Reverse scan</h3> +<h2 id="reverse-scan">Reverse scan</h2> <p>We've discussed how the scan moves forward along <code><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code>, so that each time <code><span class='Function'>๐ฝ</span></code> takes an old result as <code><span class='Value'>๐จ</span></code> and a new value as <code><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code>. This means that results correspond to prefixes and go left to right on each one. Since the most important scans have associative, commutative operands, the left-to-right ordering often doesn't make a difference. But sometimes a suffix rather than prefix scan is wanted. For these cases, Scan Under <a href="reverse.html">Reverse</a> (<code><span class='Modifier'>`</span><span class='Modifier2'>โพ</span><span class='Function'>โฝ</span></code>) does the trick.</p> <a class="replLink" title="Open in the REPL" target="_blank" href="https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/try.html#code=4oioYCAgIDDigL8w4oC/MeKAvzDigL8w4oC/MeKAvzAKCuKIqGDijL7ijL0gMOKAvzDigL8x4oC/MOKAvzDigL8x4oC/MA==">โ๏ธ</a><pre> <span class='Function'>โจ</span><span class='Modifier'>`</span> <span class='Number'>0</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>0</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>1</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>0</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>0</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>1</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>0</span> โจ 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 โฉ @@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ <a class="replLink" title="Open in the REPL" target="_blank" href="https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/try.html#code=eyIoIuKIvvCdlajiiL4iKfCdlL0i4oi+8J2VqX3LnGDijL7ijL0gImEi4oC/ImIi4oC/ImMi4oC/ImQi">โ๏ธ</a><pre> <span class='Brace'>{</span><span class='String'>"("</span><span class='Function'>โพ</span><span class='Value'>๐จ</span><span class='Function'>โพ</span><span class='String'>")๐ฝ"</span><span class='Function'>โพ</span><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span><span class='Brace'>}</span><span class='Modifier'>ห`</span><span class='Modifier2'>โพ</span><span class='Function'>โฝ</span> <span class='String'>"a"</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='String'>"b"</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='String'>"c"</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='String'>"d"</span> โจ "(a)๐ฝ(b)๐ฝ(c)๐ฝd" "(b)๐ฝ(c)๐ฝd" "(c)๐ฝd" "d" โฉ </pre> -<h3 id="higher-ranks">Higher ranks</h3> -<p>Scan moves along the <a href="leading.html">leading axis</a> of <code><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code>. Results are produced in index order.</p> +<h2 id="higher-ranks">Higher ranks</h2> +<p>Scan moves along the <a href="leading.html">leading axis</a> of <code><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code>: vertically, for a table. To apply a scan to later axes, use <code><span class='Modifier'>ห</span></code> or <code><span class='Modifier2'>โ</span></code>. Since a scan returns an array with the same shape as its argument, this can't cause an error from differing result cell shapes, unlike Fold or Insert.</p> <a class="replLink" title="Open in the REPL" target="_blank" href="https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/try.html#code=4oqiIGEg4oaQIMKvMuKAvzAuMjXigL8nYSfigL/iiJ4g4oi+IDPigL804qWKwq8x4oC/MOKAvzEKCitgIGE=">โ๏ธ</a><pre> <span class='Function'>โข</span> <span class='Value'>a</span> <span class='Gets'>โ</span> <span class='Number'>ยฏ2</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>0.25</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='String'>'a'</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>โ</span> <span class='Function'>โพ</span> <span class='Number'>3</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>4</span><span class='Function'>โฅ</span><span class='Number'>ยฏ1</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>0</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>1</span> โโ โต ยฏ2 0.25 'a' โ @@ -142,3 +142,16 @@ ยฏ2 0.25 'a' โ โ </pre> +<p>If <code><span class='Value'>๐จ</span></code> is given, it must have the same shape as a major cell of <code><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code> (this is why <code><span class='Value'>๐จ</span></code> needs to be enclosed when <code><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code> is a list: in general it's an array). Then the first result cell is found by applying <code><span class='Function'>๐ฝ</span></code> to elements of <code><span class='Value'>๐จ</span></code> and <code><span class='Function'>โ</span><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code>, and the computation continues as in the one-argument case for remaining cells.</p> +<a class="replLink" title="Open in the REPL" target="_blank" href="https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/try.html#code=M+KAvzLigL8x4oC/MCArYCBh">โ๏ธ</a><pre> <span class='Number'>3</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>2</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>1</span><span class='Ligature'>โฟ</span><span class='Number'>0</span> <span class='Function'>+</span><span class='Modifier'>`</span> <span class='Value'>a</span> +โโ +โต 1 2.25 'b' โ + 0 2.25 'c' โ + 0 3.25 'b' โ + 1 2.25 'b' โ + โ +</pre> +<p>Results are produced in index order. This means that instead of moving along each column in turn, a scan produces the first result cell one element at a time, then the next, and so on. Something like a breadth-first as opposed to depth-first ordering.</p> +<h2 id="definition">Definition</h2> +<p>Scan admits a simple recursive definition. <code><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code> is an array of rank one or more and <code><span class='Value'>๐จ</span></code>, if given, is an atom or array with shape <code><span class='Number'>1</span><span class='Function'>โโข</span><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code>. The result <code><span class='Value'>z</span><span class='Gets'>โ</span><span class='Value'>๐จ</span><span class='Function'>๐ฝ</span><span class='Modifier'>`</span><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code> is an array with the same shape as <code><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code>. If it has length at least one, <code><span class='Function'>โ</span><span class='Value'>z</span></code> is <code><span class='Function'>โ</span><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code> if <code><span class='Value'>๐จ</span></code> isn't given and <code><span class='Value'>๐จ</span><span class='Function'>๐ฝ</span><span class='Modifier'>ยจ</span><span class='Function'>โ</span><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code> if it is. For <code><span class='Number'>0</span><span class='Function'>โค</span><span class='Value'>i</span></code>, <code><span class='Paren'>(</span><span class='Value'>i</span><span class='Function'>+</span><span class='Number'>1</span><span class='Paren'>)</span><span class='Function'>โ</span><span class='Value'>z</span></code> is <code><span class='Paren'>(</span><span class='Value'>i</span><span class='Function'>โ</span><span class='Value'>z</span><span class='Paren'>)</span><span class='Function'>๐ฝ</span><span class='Modifier'>ยจ</span><span class='Paren'>(</span><span class='Value'>i</span><span class='Function'>+</span><span class='Number'>1</span><span class='Paren'>)</span><span class='Function'>โ</span><span class='Value'>๐ฉ</span></code>.</p> +<p>The ordering of <code><span class='Function'>๐ฝ</span></code> application is the natural one for this definition: cells are computed in turn, and each instance of <code><span class='Function'>๐ฝ</span><span class='Modifier'>ยจ</span></code> goes in index order.</p> |
