Re: Short Doesn't Work
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- Subject: [mg19284] Re: Short Doesn't Work
- From: jsobel at sdav01.seinf.abb.se (Jarl R Sobel)
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 22:34:42 -0400
- Organization: ABB Automation Products
- References: <7or5tb$15f@smc.vnet.net>
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In article <7or5tb$15f at smc.vnet.net>, Lawrence Walker
<lwalker701 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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
>
Try:
walk//Shallow
this yields:
{0, 1, 0, 1, 0, -1, -2, -1, -2, -1, \[LeftSkeleton]990\[RightSkeleton]}
which I believe is what you want.
(at least in Mathematica 4.0)
Jarl