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Re: Newbie

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• Subject: [mg24498] Re: [mg24490] Newbie
• From: "Matt Herman" <Henayni at hotmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 03:01:40 -0400 (EDT)
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Newbie,

The problem is that you have a semi-colon after D[x^2,x].
The semi-colon tells mathematica to compute your input, but not to
output. Instead, mathematica stores it. If you do D[x^2,x]; , then you can
get your result by typing % and then shift-enter.

Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "WantToKnowPlease" <replyNewsGroubPlease at eee.com>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg24498] [mg24490] Newbie


> I've just started using mathematica....
> When I type a command and press (shift)+(enter) I don't see any output
> unless I preceded the command by print command
> D[x^2];(shift)+(enter) doesn't do anything !!(at least I can't see what it
> does)
> Print[D[x^2]];(shift)+(enter) prints 2 x
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> any help is greatly appreciated
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    • From: "WantToKnowPlease" <replyNewsGroubPlease@eee.com>