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		pedrow on Oct 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BQN: Finally, an APL for your flying saucer I initially thought the name came from one letter after APL but, no, that would be BQM. You can verify this using the language itself `> "APL"+1 "BQM"` Overall looks interesting and definitely worth a play with!

joeman1000 on Oct 13, 2022 [–]

Yes, the author thought that N should be before M since they have an ascending number of ‘humps’.

mhuffman on Oct 13, 2022 | [–]

I mean this is clearly mathematically correct. Who do we talk to about getting this rectified across the entire alphabet?

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