Re: decrementing problem
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- Subject: [mg72314] Re: [mg72293] decrementing problem
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 05:14:23 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Why bother with a For loop when Mathematica can handle the details for you:
n=5;
U=Table[Random[Real],{i,n},{j,n}];
X=Table[Random[Real],{j,n}];
Sum[U[[i,j]] X[[j]],{i,n-1,1,-1},{j,i+1,n}]
0.832632
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
>
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