overwriting previous line
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg25875] overwriting previous line
- From: Otto Linsuain <linsuain+ at andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 02:04:18 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi everyone. I have the following question. I am using FixedPoint, something like: counter=0; FixedPoint[ (counter++;Print[counter];f[#]) & , x] I don't want to use FixedPointList because the entire output would be too long and it would be a waste of memory to ask Mathematica to remember it, let alone print it. But I use the counter to know how many times this iterates before it converges and I use the Print to keep track of what is going on (that idea was suggested by this group). The output looks something like: 1 2 3