Re: Help Defining Variables (with long names)
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- Subject: [mg16778] Re: [mg16720] Help Defining Variables (with long names)
- From: "Nik Semchenok" <nms at pobox.spbu.ru>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:07:08 -0500
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
>What is the best way to declare variable with a 'long name'? I am >currently using the underscore to separate the words. For example: >liquid_density_of_ethylene_glycol=1.114 >Unfortunately, I run into trouble when performing basic arithmetic. Hello! _ or Blank[ ] is a pattern object that can stand for any Mathematica expression. It is the protected character in Mathematica. You can use, for example, tilde liquid~density~of~ethylene~glycol=1.114 1.114 4*liquid~density~of~ethylene~glycol 4.456 Nik