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Re: Can't use subscripted variables in function definition?

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• Subject: [mg124205] Re: Can't use subscripted variables in function definition?
• From: Chris Young <cy56 at comcast.net>
• Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:52:54 -0500 (EST)
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On 2012-01-10 10:56:36 +0000, Ralph Dratman said:

> Is this just a discussion about how things look on the screen -- or is
> there some deeper difference between Mathematica's "array" indices and
> properly-implemented subscripts?

I was looking for subscripted variables to conveniently extend notation 
for things such as points determining a polynomial, and so on. Formulas 
to do this kind of thing appear in all the math refererences with 
subscripted variables, and I think it's the most natural notation. 
We're not really interested in an array of points, just the individual 
points, in this case. It's simply a more uncluttered notation.

Chris