Re: expressions list -> equations list
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- Subject: [mg83983] Re: [mg83928] expressions list -> equations list
- From: DrMajorBob <drmajorbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 02:41:41 -0500 (EST)
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For example,
vars = Array[a, 5]
{a[1], a[2], a[3], a[4], a[5]}
and then
Thread[vars == 0]
{a[1] == 0, a[2] == 0, a[3] == 0, a[4] == 0, a[5] == 0}
Bobby.
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:01:40 -0600, Hauke Reddmann
<fc3a501 at uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> 1st of all THX to all who answered my last question. Just one other
> before
> I lend a Mathematica manual from the public lib and pester you no more
> :-)
>
> So. Now that I have a tensor it must vanish identically. I Flatten[] it
> first
> and then I have a list of equations...oh, stop, I haven't. REDUCE (if I
> may
> mention the name of a competition :-) could take a Solve[] now because it
> automatically assumes a "=0" as default but Mathematica is
> anally-retentive
> (a good thing :-) and I somehow must turn {a,b,c} into {a=0,b=0,c=0}.
> Convert to string, global change "," -> "=0," and "}" -> "=0}", reconvert
> to list? Is that possible? Or is there a less LISP-hack-style solution?
>
> --
> Hauke Reddmann <:-EX8 fc3a501 at uni-hamburg.de
> Er-a svo gott sem gott kveða
> öl alda sonum, því að færra veit
> er fleira drekkur síns til geðs gumi.
>
>
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DrMajorBob at bigfoot.com