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Star Diaeresis

Star Diaeresis is a Dyadic operator with an ambivalent

  left operand and an integer or dyadic right operand

Operator Star Diaeresis means

Power Operator

      cube    ⍝ 3D array
AB
CD

EF
GH
      (1) cube   ⍝ split once
┌──┬──┐
ABCD
├──┼──┤
EFGH
└──┴──┘
      (2) cube   ⍝ split twice
┌───────┬───────┐
│┌──┬──┐│┌──┬──┐│
││ABCD│││EFGH││
│└──┴──┘│└──┴──┘│
└───────┴───────┘

      f  (32+)(×1.8)   ⍝ °F from °C

      f ¯273 ¯40 0 100     ⍝ Fahrenheit
¯459.4 ¯40 32 212

      c  f¯1             ⍝ Inverse: °C from °F

      c ¯459.4 ¯40 32 212  ⍝ Celsius
¯273 ¯40 0 100

      1 +÷= 1            ⍝ fixpoint: golden mean
1.61803

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