Re: Subscript Bug?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg90126] Re: Subscript Bug?
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:51:47 -0400 (EDT)
On 6/29/08 at 5:36 AM, aaronfude at gmail.com (Aaron Fude) wrote: >I have this code in a cell: >Subscript[H, 1] = 110; Subscript[H, 2] = 90; >H = Subscript[H, 1] + Subscript[H, 2]; >Tanh[Subscript[H, 1]] >The first time I execute the cell, I get >Tanh[Subscript[200, 1]] >which of course is nonsense. This is what should be expected given the way Mathematica does pattern matching and doesn't really do subscripted variables. If you want to use subscripted variables the thing to do is load the Notation package and use Symbolize. Doing this will get you the result you are expecting. See Notation/tutorial/NotationSymbolizeAndInfixNotation One other thing. It would be wise to get out of the habit of using uppercase characters for your variable names. That ensures there will be no name conflict with built-in objects since they are guaranteed to start with an uppercase character.