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Re: decrementing problem

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg72311] Re: decrementing problem
• From: "Roman" <rschmied at gmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:34:57 -0500 (EST)
• References: <em60nv$3ar$1@smc.vnet.net>

the documentation for For says: "The For exits as soon as test fails."
You probably misinterpreted this part.

If your n is <= 2, your loop never stops; if n is > 2, nothing is being
done.

Try with the condition "i >= 1" instead.

jltrahan at mail.usf.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having a really difficult time with decrementing values in my For
> loop. I have tried i--, --i, i-=1, i=i-1, and nothing is working. The loop
> is as follows:
> For[i=n-1, i<=1, i--, summ=0;
>    For[j=i+1, j<=n, j++, summ=summ + U[[i,j]]*X[[j]]]
> ]
> When I try to print i or j, nothing shows up.
> Can anyone please help?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Jamie