Re: Newbie question: Which is more versatile, Table[] or Array[]?
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- Subject: [mg94151] Re: Newbie question: Which is more versatile, Table[] or Array[]?
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:06:02 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University of Bergen
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stpatryck wrote: > I'm reading the Schaum's Outline for Mathematica and am in the chapter > concerning list manipulation. So far, the only difference I can tell > between the Array[] and Table[] commands is that with Table, you use > an expression as the first parameter/argument and with Array, you use > a function. The other parameters, of course, are tailored differently > because they support the first parameter i.e. expression or function. > > Anyone know of any significant difference between these two commands > other than syntax? Please feel free to e-mail me at > stpatryck at gmail.com. > Mathematica is full of redundancies. In some situations Array might be more convenient than Table. For example, lct[n_] := Array[Signature[{##}]&, Array[n&,n]] will give the n-dimensional Levi Civita tensor.