Re: mathematica newbie ?
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- Subject: [mg92427] Re: mathematica newbie ?
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:50:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Jared.webb at yahoo.com wrote: > I am extremely new to mathematica and am having trouble following the > documentation. > > I would like to set up the following loop and have it send the output > to a vector. > > If I have in mathematica: > > nsupports=3 > ndof=10 > nels=2 > int=range[0,nsupports-1] - this is my iterator > > I want to set up a loop: > > for x in int: > if x=0, return 0 > if x=nsupports-1, return ndof-2 > otherwise, return x*nels*2 > > I want the output to go to a column vector. Assuming I have correctly understood the pseudo-code, a possible solution is as follows: In[1]:= nsupports = 3; ndof = 10; nels = 2; int = Range[0, nsupports - 1]; Table[If[x == 0, 0, If[x == nsupports - 1, ndof - 2, x*nels*2]], {x, int}] Out[20]= {0, 4, 8} Regards, -- Jean-Marc