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Re: neat way to program minimum of sum

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg75222] Re: neat way to program minimum of sum
• From: CoolGenie <CGenie at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:05:07 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <f01360$889$1@smc.vnet.net><f07agh$4gm$1@smc.vnet.net>

This just came to my mind:

x[t_]:=x[t]=Random[]
f[t_]:=Length[NestWhileList[# + x[#] &, 0, # <= t &]]

But this is quite crazy!! It generates the list but not indexed by
integers but by some real numbers (increasing, if only we don't get a
'0'...).

To Norbert Marxer:
What if I want to plot this function? Saving the values of x for later
is mandatory.

Thanks to everybody for answers,
P. Kaminski