Re: For Loop and Array related
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- Subject: [mg57999] Re: [mg57971] For Loop and Array related
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:35:56 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I don't understand that.
Switching to a simpler Do statement, note that the following does not work.
Lattice = Table[0, {n, 100}];
Do[Lattice[[Random[Integer, {1, 100}]]]++, {16000}]
Total[Lattice]
16229
But if we calculate the index location first it does work.
Lattice = Table[0, {n, 100}];
Do[i = Random[Integer, {1, 100}]; Lattice[[i]]++,
{16000}]
Total[Lattice]
16000
If we do a Trace on the increment statement in the first construction we
obtain the following...
Lattice = Table[0, {n, 5}];
Trace[Lattice[[Random[Integer, {1, 5}]]]++]
Lattice
{HoldForm[Lattice[[Random[Integer, {1, 5}]]]++],
{{HoldForm[Lattice], HoldForm[{0, 0, 0, 0, 0}]},
{HoldForm[Random[Integer, {1, 5}]], HoldForm[3]},
HoldForm[{0, 0, 0, 0, 0}[[3]]], HoldForm[0]},
{HoldForm[Lattice[[Random[Integer, {1, 5}]]] = 1],
HoldForm[1]}, HoldForm[0]}
{0, 0, 0, 1, 0}
which I do not follow, but it appears that Mathematica is calculating the
random index twice.
David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
From: mchangun at gmail.com [mailto:mchangun at gmail.com]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Hi All,
I have an array with 100 elements, all set to zero initially. Then I
want to randomly choose one element and increase its value by one, and
repeat this 16000 times. Here is my code:
Lattice = Table[0, {n, 100}];
For[i = 1, i = 16000, i++, Lattice[[Random[Integer, {1, 100}]]]++]
So now if I add all the elements in the list Lattice together, I should
get 16000 (I use Total[Lattice] to get the sum of the list). But this
doesn't happen, and strangely, each time I run this, the sum of the
list is different! What am I doing wrong?
Also I'm aware that a lot of Mathematica newbies try and write code
like it were C++ and I think i've fallen into this trap as well. So is
there a different (more Mathematica) way which I can implement the
above?
Thanks in advanced.