Re: Displaying Mathematica's Global rules
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- Subject: [mg32095] Re: Displaying Mathematica's Global rules
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 03:52:34 -0500 (EST)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Jerry, Your definitions are stored under (tagged by) Subscript; try ?Subscript Alternatively, tag your definitions with d: d /: Subscript[d, a_, b_] = 0; d /: Subscript[d, a_, a_] = 1; and then try ?d -- Allan --------------------- Allan Hayes Mathematica Training and Consulting Leicester UK www.haystack.demon.co.uk hay at haystack.demon.co.uk Voice: +44 (0)116 271 4198 Fax: +44 (0)870 164 0565 "Blimbaum Jerry DLPC" <BlimbaumJE at ncsc.navy.mil> wrote in message news:9vs8m3$g1a$1 at smc.vnet.net... > I happened to be reading a book that gave an example of implementing > the kronecker delta symbol , i.e. define it and then see how Mathematica > stores the rules for it and in what order....so I typed in the rule using > the subscript button on the palette.... > > d_subscripts_a_,b_= 0 and d_subscripts_a_,a_ = 1 , > ran it a few times just to show that it works......but then i tried the next > part of the > > exercise which showed you how you to find out how Mathematica stored the > rules....so I typed in ?d expecting to see the rules but all Mathematica > > > gave back was 'Global 'd' .....now I realize > > that the subscript button duzznt create a symbol (* the book defined the > delta symbol as d[x_,x_] = 1, etc. so it didnt run into this problem * ) but > i was > > still puzzled...... > > Mathematica ran my definitions for any values of a and b...but where are > the rules? > > > jerry blimbaum NSWC Panama City, Fl >