Re: Confusing results with N[expr]?
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- Subject: [mg62391] Re: Confusing results with N[expr]?
- From: tt at tt.com
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:12:07 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada
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In the following code, just put parenthesis around a^b and you get the good result. f/@ a^b is the same as Map[f,a]^b (and Map[f,a]=a) f/@(a^b) is the same as Map[f,a^b] /@ has precedence over ^. GL On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:44:25 +0000 (UTC), Steven HANCOCK <Steven.Hancock at cern.ch> wrote: >There may be a clue in the following, equally distressing nonsense... > >In[1]:= >$Version > >Out[1]= >5.1 for Microsoft Windows (October 25, 2004) > >(* Map[f, expr] or f /@ expr applies f to each element on the first >level in expr. *) > >In[2]:= >Map[f, a^b] > >Out[2]= > f[b] >f[a] > >In[3]:= >f /@ a^b > >Out[3]= > b >a >