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RE: a[[2]][[3]] = 1 error? why?

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  • Subject: [mg8901] RE: [mg8874] a[[2]][[3]] = 1 error? why?
  • From: Jean-Marie THOMAS <jmthomas at cybercable.tm.fr>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:56:53 -0400
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

You cannot assign a value to something that has already got one.
Use=20
a/.a[[2]][[3]]->3

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-----Original Message-----
From:	charles loboz [SMTP:charles at syacus.acus.oz.au]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Sent:	mercredi 1 octobre 1997 02:17
To:	mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject:	[mg8874] a[[2]][[3]] =3D 1 error? why?

a=3DTable[i*j,{i,1,3},{j,1,3}];
a[[2]][[3]]

answer : 6 (as it should be)
so why assignment to=20
a[[2]][[3]] =3D 3
doesn't work?




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