Indexed element treated as number?
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- Subject: [mg80055] Indexed element treated as number?
- From: "Jung-Tsung Shen" <jushen at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:16:22 -0400 (EDT)
(* The following problem and alike have been asked before. I have searched extensively the archive of this forum but couldn't find a perfect solution. *) To get an array of length n, where n is large and post-given, one issues the command, for example, n=100; kList1=Array[a, n]; but it seems that there are some limitations to this approach. For example, in cases that I know all of the elements are real, and would like to issue, say, a[37]/:Im[a[37]]=0; I get an error message saying "TagSet::sym: Argument a[37] at position 1 is expected to be a symbol." To declare the element to be explicitly zero sometimes speed up the computation. For a list such as kList2={k1, k2, k3, ..., k100}; there's no such limitations, but since the number of elements is large, and is post-given, I couldn't have this before hand. Is there any solution(s) to this "problem"? Thanks! JT