Re: mathematica question
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- Subject: [mg9231] Re: [mg9199] mathematica question
- From: "C. Woll" <carlw at u.washington.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 01:00:46 -0400
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Hi Tom,
I don't understand why you don't use your index as the argument of your
function. Thus, let
q[i]
be your functions. Then a function to do a particular list of q's is
simply
doq[a_List]:=q/@a
If this doesn't work, could you give more details about your particular
problem?
Good luck,
Carl Woll
Dept of Physics
U of Washington
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Tom wrote:
> Hello Mathematica users,
>
> I have a question that I hope someone has an answer for. I think it
> should be simple but I cannot find a way to make it work.
>
> I have a set of functions that take no inputs, they are called q1[],
> q2[], q3[] and so on.
>
> How can I get Mathematica to run the correct function given a list of
> numbers as input. IE, if I supply the list {1,4,7,8} I would want
> Mathematica to run the functions q1[], q4[], q7[] and q8[], assuming
> they were defined.
>
> I would appreciate any assistance you might have with this!!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Tom De Vries
>
>