Help with While Loop Function
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- Subject: [mg115924] Help with While Loop Function
- From: KenR <ramsey2879 at msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:04:26 -0500 (EST)
Please Help me to Get the following to work as desired t is the triangular number. I increment it repeated ly by adding the counter x to it. When t*((y^2+1)/2)^2 + y^2 is a perfect square i want to append t to my list of trangular numbers with the list starting with {0,1}, and exit the loop when 3 more triangular numbers have been added or when t >= 1000000000000. It is not working for me. I am new to Mathematica. Thanks Clearall[x,y,t,w] x = 2 y = 3 t = 1 w = 0 List1 = {0,1} f[t_,y_] ==(Floor(Sqrt ((t/4) (y^2-1)^2 + y^2)))^2 - ((t/4) (y^2-1)^2 + y^2) While[t<1000000000000,t = t+x;If[f[t,y] = 0, List1 = Append[list1,t];w = w +1]; If [w = 3,t = 1000000000000, x++]]; List1