Re: Sequence of functions
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- Subject: [mg24091] Re: [mg24065] Sequence of functions
- From: BobHanlon at aol.com
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 02:26:59 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In a message dated 6/22/2000 1:17:41 AM, s-banerjee at nwu.edu writes:
>I am having a problem with defining a sequence of functions. A highly
>simplified version of the problem is given below:
>
>Suppose I define a function as follows, where the argument B is another
>function and ls is a list of numbers:
>
>Fx[ft_] := Block[ {g, h},
> Do[
> g[i][t_] := Sum[h[j][t], {j, i - 1}]; (* usually a more complicated
>function of h[j][t], j=1,...,i-1 here *)
> Plot[g[i][t], {t, 0, 4}];
> h[i][t_] := g[i][t]; (* usually a more complicated function of g[i][t]
>here *)
> Plot[h[i][t], {t, 0, 4}],
> {i, 1, 3}]
> ]
>
>and then suppose we call Fx as
>Fx[{1, 2, 3}]
>
>Then at the beginning of the second iteration it says that the recursion
>depth is exceeded. I believe that this is happening because when it tries
>to
>evaluate g[2][t] it looks for h[1][t], but now h[1][t] is getting (wrongly)
>defined in terms of the current i (= 2) and hence goes into the recursion.
>
>How to get around this problem?
>
Try something along this line:
Fx[t_] := Block[ {g, h},
g[1][x_] = x;
g[i_][x_] := Sum[h[j][x], {j, i - 1}];
h[i_][x_] := g[i][x];
Table[g[i][t], {i, 1, 6}]];
Fx[t]
{t, t, 2*t, 4*t, 8*t, 16*t}
Bob Hanlon