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Re: Re: Re: Weird behavior of SparseArray

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• Subject: [mg58495] Re: [mg58429] Re: [mg58413] Re: Weird behavior of SparseArray
• From: stephen layland <layland at wolfram.com>
• Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 02:24:23 -0400 (EDT)
• Mail-followup-to: Adel Elsabbagh <aelsabbagh@gmail.com>
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and thus spake Adel Elsabbagh [2005.07.02 @ 04:13]:
> But here is what I get using the same input:
> 
> In[218]:=
> cp1=SparseArray[{i_,j_}\[Rule]0,{4,2}];
> cp1[[Range[4],1]]=cp1[[Range[4],1]]+{1,1,1,1};
> Normal[cp1]
> $Version
> 
> 
> 
> Out[220]=
> {{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0}}
> 
> Out[221]=
> 5.0 for Microsoft Windows (June 11, 2003)

Looks like a bug with 5.0.0, fixed in 5.0.1;

This use of SparseArray is rather unintuitive, however.  What you shold
probably be doing is something like this:

cp1 = SparseArray[{_,1}->1,{4,2}]

Assigning a rule for every position in a sparse array defeats the
purpose of a sparse array.

> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's a lot of exclaiming...
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• References:
  • Re: Weird behavior of SparseArray
    • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv@earthlink.net>
  • Re: Re: Weird behavior of SparseArray
    • From: Adel Elsabbagh <aelsabbagh@gmail.com>