Re: About Table
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- Subject: [mg115970] Re: About Table
- From: Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:11:42 -0500 (EST)
olfa wrote:
> Hi Mathematica community,
>
> when evaluating this input (with shift+enter):
> m + Max[Table[A[index1], {index1, i, N}]]
>
> I obtain the output:
> m + Table[A[index1], {index1, i, N}]
>
> How to explain why the function Max wasn't maintained (I mean why it
> was ignored by mathematica)???!!!
>
> Thank you very much.
>
The max of a single element is that element.
Same is true if you substitute "elephant" for "element", by the way.
http://www.suite101.com/content/big-max-the-worlds-greatest-detective-a275251
Daniel Lichtblau
Wolfram Research