Re: Not-understandable warning
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- Subject: [mg130397] Re: Not-understandable warning
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr357 at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 00:06:57 -0400 (EDT)
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$Version
9.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (January 24, 2013)
mat = SparseArray[
{{i_, i_} -> 1}, {4, 4}]
SparseArray[<4>, {4, 4}]
mat2 = SparseArray[
Table[{i, i} -> 1, {i, 4}]]
SparseArray[<4>, {4, 4}]
mat3 = IdentityMatrix[4]//
SparseArray
SparseArray[<4>, {4, 4}]
mat == mat2 == mat3 == IdentityMatrix[4]
True
Bob Hanlon
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 9:53 PM, <JikaiRF at aol.com> wrote:
> Dear members:
>
> I have a difficulty to understand programming in Mathematica.
>
> I input the following, based on a textbook titled ``Programming with
> Mathematica: An Introduction" by Paul Wellin, which is published by
> Cambridge University Press.
>
> mat = SparseArray[{i_, i_} \[RightArrow] 1, {4, 4}]
>
> Then, I received an answer as
>
> SparseArray[{i_, i_} \[RightArrow] 1, {4, 4}]
>
> with a warning as
>
> `` SparseArray::list: "List expected at position 1 in SparseArray[{i_,
> i_} \[RightArrow] 1, {4, 4}]".
>
> In this textbook, on page 32, there appears a correct answer as follows:
>
> SparseArray[<4>, {4,4}].
>
> Why my Mathematica cannot understand my input?
>
> By the way, I use Mathematica 8.0.4.0 version and Mac OS 10.5.8.
>
> Sincerely,
> Fujio Takata.
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- Not-understandable warning
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- Not-understandable warning