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Re: UnitStep[] Problem.

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  • Subject: [mg27328] Re: UnitStep[] Problem.
  • From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 03:17:00 -0500 (EST)
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Dustin,

It works as expected on 4.1:

Table[UnitStep[x],{x,-3,3}]

        {0,0,0,1,1,1,1}

The Book lists UnitStep as new in Version 4.

I don't have access to Version 3.0 now, so I'm afraid that I can't check if
there was a package for it in Version 3.

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"Dustin Darcy" <ddarcy at digipen.edu> wrote in message
news:96t8i6$ppr at smc.vnet.net...
> When I type in:
> Table[UnitStep[x], {x, -3, 3}]
>
> it should yield:
> {0,0,0,1,1,1,1}
>
> Instead, though, I get:
> {UnitStep[-3],UnitStep[-2],UnitStep[-1],UnitStep[0],UnitStep[1],UnitStep
> [2],UnitStep[3]}
>
> Is this due to not loading a certain package? I've tried loading
> everything I could possibly imagine, and I've read over every bit of
> documentation I could scrounge up.  However, I've yet to have any luck
> getting it to work.
>
> Oh, it's probably important to mention that I'm dealing with a
> considerably older copy of Mathematica: Mathematica Version 3.0.
> However, it does appear that the UnitStep function should exist.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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