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Its stack effect declares that ''*/'' always returns 2 values. To return a variable number of values, a word must bundle those values into a [[sequence]] (perhaps an array or vector). For example, ''factors'' (defined in ''math.primes.factors'' and demonstrated at [[Prime decomposition#Factor]]) returns a sequence of prime factors.
=={{header|J}}==
To return multiple values in J, you return an array which contains multiple values. Since the only data type in J is array, this is sort of like asking how to return only one value in another language.
<lang j> 1 2+3 4
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[int z, int w] = addsub(5,4);
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=={{header|Ruby}}==
Every function returns one value. The conventional way to return multiple values is to bundle them into an Array.
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