Re: Question - Function Definition
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- Subject: [mg63714] Re: [mg63703] Question - Function Definition
- From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at jeol.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:49:36 -0500 (EST)
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On Jan 10, 2006, at 1:48 AM, actuary at mchsi.com wrote: > Hello: > > I'm working my way through the text "A Course in Computational Number > Theory". A function in the text is defined in the following manner > xxx[a_Integer,b_Integer,c_List,d_: Infinity]:= yyyyyyyy. > > What does ":Infinity" do in "d_: Infinity" It means d defaults to a value of Infinity if it's not supplied, see section A.5.1 in The Mathematica Book. Regards, Ssezi
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- Question - Function Definition