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Re: Initialize a matrix in mathematica

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  • Subject: [mg66768] Re: Initialize a matrix in mathematica
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 06:06:38 -0400 (EDT)
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On 5/28/06 at 6:08 AM, ashesh.cb at gmail.com (ashesh) wrote:

>Have programmed in another system until now and am trying to shift
>to Mathematica and facing some diffciulties

>I would like to create a matrix, say a[ndiv] and would like to
>initilize all the value to i^2 (or any other value). The size of the
>matrix is not fixed.

>The code I tried to use is:

>ndiv = 5; a = {}; For[i=1, i<=ndiv, i++, a[[i]] = i*i;
>];
>a

>This is producing the following error: partw: Part 1 of {} does not
>exist and so on.

>I understand that I am not creating a matrix of size 1*ndiv for the
>data to be fed it.

>So I tried using Table as follows:

>a = Table[0,{1},{ndiv}] followed by the above For loop (when I
>wanted to initialize the matrix with say i*i;

I am not entirely clear as to what you are trying to create. You say matrix which usually means a 2 dimensional array. Yet the code you provide clearly has only one dimension

Your first attempt doesn't work as you would like since you define a to be an empty list. Hence the error message. You could do what you want using a For loop with Append, i.e.,

In[1]:=
ndiv=5;
a={};
For[i=1,iâ?¤ndiv,i++,a=Append[a,i*i];];
a

Out[4]=
{1,4,9,16,25}

But while this works, it isn't an efficient way to create this list. Better would be:

In[5]:=
Table[i^2,{i,ndiv}]

Out[5]=
{1,4,9,16,25}

and even simpler is

In[6]:=
Range[ndiv]^2

Out[6]=
{1,4,9,16,25}
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