Re: variables versus functions
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- Subject: [mg28803] Re: variables versus functions
- From: "Paul Lutus" <nospam at nosite.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 01:32:55 -0400 (EDT)
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"Julian Sweet" <jsweet at engineering.ucsb.edu> wrote in message news:9dld6m$o9g at smc.vnet.net... > How is it different to define a variable such as A=Cos[x] > versus a function A[x_]:=Cos[x] ? In the first case, x must be predefined: a = Cos[x] x = Pi a In the second, x doesn't have to be defined at all outside the function: f[x_] := Cos[x] f[Pi] -- Paul Lutus www.arachnoid.com