Re: Short Doesn't Work
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- Subject: [mg19273] Re: [mg19253] Short Doesn't Work
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:24:26 -0400
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>I am having problems with the Short[] function.
>
>In v3, the following,
>
>randDir:=2 Random[Integer]-1;
>randWalk[n_]:=NestList[#+randDir&,0,n-1];
>(walk=randWalk[1000] ) // Short
>
>returns
>
><<1>>
>
>I was expecting more than this. It still doesn't work if I
>use Short[expr,5].
>
>What's going on?
>
>Lawrence
>
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Lawrence,
You can use Shallow. But still I agree with you. Short does not seem to work
properly.
randDir := 2 Random[Integer] - 1;
randWalk[n_] := NestList[# + randDir &, 0, n - 1];
walk = randWalk[1000];
walk // Short
<<1>>
walk // Shallow
{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, <<990>>}
Short seems to be very unpredictable in how it works. Wolfram should either give a
better explanation or fix it or add extra parameters to control its use or get rid of
it.
David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/