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  • Subject: [mg44846] Nested Functions
  • From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 04:24:41 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello everyone,

I'm a relatively new user of Mathematica.  I've got a problem with a 
nested function that won't evaluate when supplied with numbers.  It 
looks something like this: MU is a function nested within another 
function P.

MU[C_] = C^g, where 0<g<1  (g=.25 in my notebook)

and

P[z_, Cs_, C0_] = z  (MU[Cs]/MU[C0])

When I try to evaluate P[.5, 120, 90] I get the same input returned, 
that is, P[.5, 120, 90], rather than the value of the function P 
evaluate at its arguments.  What am I doing wrong?

Regards,

	Greg

	Gregory Lypny
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	Concordia University
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