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Short Doesn't Work

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  • Subject: [mg19253] Short Doesn't Work
  • From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker701 at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 02:07:00 -0400
  • Organization: Morgan State University: COMSARE
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I am having problems with the Short[] function.
 
In v3, the following,

randDir:=2 Random[Integer]-1;
randWalk[n_]:=NestList[#+randDir&,0,n-1];
(walk=randWalk[1000]  ) // Short

returns

<<1>>

I was expecting more than this.  It still doesn't work if I
use Short[expr,5].

What's going on?

Lawrence

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