Re: Variable names in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg92116] Re: Variable names in Mathematica
- From: amannuc1 <Anthony.J.Mannucci at jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:00:41 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sep 18, 4:26 am, Jens-Peer Kuska <ku... at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote: > Hi, > > foo[\[Alpha]_, \[ScriptA]_] := \[Alpha]*\[ScriptA] > > and > > foo[2, 3] > > gives > 6 > > and > foo[2, \[Beta]] > > gives > > 2 \[Beta] > > Regards > Jens > > amannuc1 wrote: > > Dear Community, > > > I can't seem to get an answer to this simple question: are greek letter= s > > allowed as variable names in Mathematica? I have tried this with limite= d > > success (v 5.2). It seems that some greek letters are reserved, for exa= mple > > alpha. I am not sure about that. Any insight is appreciated. Thanks! > > > -Tony That's great. Thank you. Is there an issue doing this with subscripts? For example, suppose my variable is \!\(x\_y\) Can I put that inside a function as you have done? I am having problems with this. -Tony