Re: Re: Why doesn't it work?
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- Subject: [mg38488] Re: [mg38470] Re: Why doesn't it work?
- From: Kirk Reinholtz <kirk.reinholtz at jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 04:24:37 -0500 (EST)
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I don't think it's quite as you state. Put this all in a single cell:
foo=3;
foo=4;bar=%;foo=5;
blat=%
{bar,blat}
Run it, and you get {3,5}. So, "%" is previous line, not previous
previous expression. doesn't matter if previous line was in same or
other cell.
Orestis Vantzos wrote:
>
> % maps to the output of the previous cell NOT the previous expression.
> So if you evaluate:
> In[1]:= expr1
> Out[1]:= out1
>
> In[2]:= expr2;%
> Out[2]:= out1
>
> ..and not out2.
> My advice:
> when you program in Mathematica even the simplest of functions, forget %.
> It's a bug waiting to happen..
> Orestis
>
> "Konrad Den Ende" <konrad at voxway.com> wrote in message news:<atjv36$ls4$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> > When i go:
> >
> > f1[x_] := something
> > tmp = int(f1[x])dx
> > f2[x_] = tmp
> >
> > then everything is nice but this:
> >
> > f1[x_] := something
> > tmp = int(f1[x])dx
> > f2[x_] = %
> >
> > just won't work. Apparetly Mathematica believes
> > that "%" mean the thing i did BEFORE the integral!
> > How come?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Vänligen
> > Konrad
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- Re: Why doesn't it work?
- From: atelesforos@hotmail.com (Orestis Vantzos)
- Re: Why doesn't it work?