Hi Steven On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Steven Adrian <sadr...@acumeniacal.com> wrote: > This is great. I wish I had seen this earlier. I did not know about > the subscr function, but I had basically gotten to the same point by > writing an equivalent custom calc function.
With the Calc function defmath? How does it look like? > 1. I wrote a custom calc function called tailsInARow that uses the > calc random function to simulate a coin toss and return the number > of tails in a row. I used this function to fill a 20x20 table of > values. I then used the calc histogram function in a table formula > to read the table values, histogram the number of tails in a row, > then write the histogram to a new table. Didn't know that Calc has a histogram function. The histogram values would fit perfectly to the ASCII plot within an Org table: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/orgtbl-ascii-plot.html > 2. I calculated a rotation matrix as a succession of individual > rotations about x, y, and z axes. I then wrote the resulting matrix > to a table. I then wrote a table function to read the matrix, take > the inverse, and write the result to a new table. Interesting. How does the "function to read the matrix" look like? Michael
