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Re-indexing Mathematica

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  • Subject: Re-indexing Mathematica
  • From: mcdave at rice.edu (David Tindall McMath)
  • Date: Fri, 17 Jul 92 14:16:13 CDT

Mathgroup,

I've just begun trying to convert several weeks' worth of ideas into
Mathematica code, and I found a small problem.  I'm working with points in R^k
for several different values of k, and (don't ask me why) I did all my indexing
from 0.  That is, a point in R^k is (x_0, ..., x_{k-1}).  And I just realized
that Mathematica doesn't quite like this.  You see, I'm representing points as
lists.  But x[[0]] is "List", not the x_0 that I want.  I would REALLY like to
index from 0 in Mathematica, because all these subscripts are buried in all
kinds of summations and sequences and such, and I don't want to have to go
through and re-index everything.  I was thinking I could Unprotect[Part] and
muck about with it, but I'm not sure how to do that without getting into
infinite recursion stuff (Part[i_] := Part[i+1] just doesn't make MMA very
happy).

I'm using Mathematica v. 2.0 for SPARC.  Thanks for any input you can offer.

	David McMath
	mcdave at rice.edu






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