Re: Range[imin,imax,di]; was it better in 3.0 than in 4.0 ?
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- Subject: [mg19584] Re: Range[imin,imax,di]; was it better in 3.0 than in 4.0 ?
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 01:34:23 -0400
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Ersek, Ted R <ErsekTR at navair.navy.mil> wrote in message news:7qkqqn$h4p at smc.vnet.net... > Range[imin,imax,di] had an interesting capability in version 3.0, but the > capability is gone in version 4.0. > > -------------------------------- > Using version 3.0: > > In[1]:= > Range[a,a+12 n, 2n] > > Out[1]= > {a,a+2 n,a+4 n,a+6 n,a+8 n,a+10 n,a+12 n} > > ----------------------------------------------- > > I thought that was rather nice, but using version 4.0 we get: > > > In[1]:= > Range[a,a+12 n,2n] > > Range::range: Range specification in Range[a,a+12 n,2 n] is not a > machine-size integer. > > Out[1]= > Range[a,a+12 n,2 n] > > > Now contrary to what the message above suggests, Range doesn't need Integer > arguments. Both version 3 and version 4 give the same result in the > following example. > > > In[2]:= > Clear[x]; > Range[x- Pi, x+ Pi, E] > > Out[2]= > {-Pi + x, E - Pi + x, 2*E - Pi + x} > > > -------------------- > Regards, > Ted Ersek > > For Mathematica tips, tricks see > http://www.dot.net.au/~elisha/ersek/Tricks.html > > Ted, I miss this also. It seems rather odd that nevertheless we have Range[a, a + 4 n, n] {a, a + n, a + 2 n, a + 3 n, a + 4 n} And, Sum behaves as in 3.x: Sum[x, {x, a, a + 4n, 2n}] 3 a + 6 n But Table, Product and Do do not behave this way: Table[x, {x, a, a + 4n, 2n}] Table::"iterb": "Iterator \!\({x, a, \(\(a + \(\(4\\ n\)\)\)\), \(\(2\\ \ n\)\)}\) does not have appropriate bounds." Table[x, {x, a, a + 4 n, 2 n}] Table[x, {x, a, a + 4n, n}] {a, a + n, a + 2 n, a + 3 n, a + 4 n} Product[x, {x, a, a + 4n, 2n}] Product[x, {x, a, a + 4 n, 2 n}] Product[x, {x, a, a + 4n, n}] a (a + n) (a + 2 n) (a + 3 n) (a + 4 n) Do[Print[x], {x, a, a + 4n, 2n}] Do::"iterb": "Iterator \!\({x, a, \(\(a + \(\(4\\ n\)\)\)\), \(\(2\\ n\)\)}\) \ does not have appropriate bounds." Do[Print[x], {x, a, a + 4 n, 2 n}] Do[Print[x], {x, a, a + 4n, n}] a a + n a + 2 n a + 3 n a + 4 n