Re: Help using variables with subscripts
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- Subject: [mg41355] Re: Help using variables with subscripts
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 06:40:11 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi, have you looked at the Utilities`Notation` package ? In principle you habe to symbolize the subscripted variables. The problem is, that Mathematica use Subscript[x,i] and associate this with Subscript[] and not with x. If you wish to use Subscript[x,i] in a pattern you *must* symbolize it ! Regards Jens "Earhart, Patrick" wrote: > > Hello all > > I wanted to see if any of you Mathematica Gods had any advice on ways to use variables with subscripts inside a function. > > Ex > In[1]:= > f[x_] = x^2 > > Out[1]= > \!\(x\^2\) > > In[6]:= > f[5] > > Out[6]= > 25 > > In[4]:= > \!\(f1[\(x\_b\) _]\ = \ x\_b\^2\) > > Out[4]= > \!\(x\_b\%2\) > > In[5]:= > f1[5] > > Out[5]= > f1[5]