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Problems with high-dimensional lists

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  • Subject: [mg2494] Problems with high-dimensional lists
  • From: Sascha at sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de, Unzicker at lrz.uni-muenchen.de
  • Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 01:57:59 -0500
  • Organization: Universitaet Muenchen (Germany)

Let me give an example:

a=Table[0,{3},{4},{5},{6}];

Dimensions[a]

gives you 
Out[86]= {3, 4, 5, 6},
of course.

But if you try to assign a new value to a sublist
a[[1,1]]=Table[x,{6},{5}];
Mathematica forgets that a still should have the Dimension {3,4,5,6}:

In[88]:= Dimensions[a]
Out[88]= {3, 4}
In[89]:= Transpose[a,{4,1,2,3}];

Transpose::tperm: 
   Permutation {4, 1, 2, 3} is longer than the dimensions {3, 4} of the array.

is now impossible, although 

In[90]:= a[[3,4,5,6]]
Out[90]= 0
returns still the correct value. Why does Mathematica make this difference?
If you print a, there is no difference.

How can you return to the desired Dimension?

a=Array[a,{3,4,5,6}];

is not possible because a[[1,1,1,1]] gives a mess.

Thanks in advance,

Sascha Unzicker











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