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RE: Assigment statements

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  • Subject: [mg9897] RE: [mg9833] Assigment statements
  • From: Jean-Marie THOMAS <jmthomas at cybercable.tm.fr>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 20:16:44 -0500
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

testPoint={x=Random[],y=Random[],f[x,]} will keep its value until the
preceding line is evaluated again. If, from session to another session
you want to generate random set, see notes for SeedRandom[].

-----Message d'origine-----
De:	Drs. E. Smulders, RTD [SMTP:sds at eltn.utwente.nl] Date:	vendredi 28
novembre 1997 11:36 A:	mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Objet:	[mg9833] Assigment statements

Dear mathematica users,

Yesterday I decided to try wether it's possible with Mathematica (2.2)
to do  interpolation on a suface defined by datapoints {xi,yi,zi}; i~
number of  points. 
To test this I decided to generate a test-set of points something like 
{xi=Random[], yi=Random[], f(xi,yi)}. I failed ?! It seems each time I
call  an xi or yi they are reassigned a new random number. 

How to solve this problem, and also: is it a good idea to use MM for the
purpose stated above ? 

Regards, Edwin Smulders. 



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