Re: number not fitting in
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- Subject: [mg71567] Re: number not fitting in
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:41:38 -0500 (EST)
On 11/22/06 at 5:22 AM, JGBoone at gmail.com wrote:
>First let me say that i am new to this mathematica and programming
>business. I am programming a random speciation. I have a list, lyst,
>that is a certain range. I want to replace, at random, one part of
>lyst with something that is not in the original list, speciation.
>When I table this, it puts the speciation outside the list and
>inside the list. Can anyone help me? here's the line that seems to
>be giving me trouble.
It isn't really clear to me what you want to do. I don't
understand, "when I table this, it puts the speciation outside
the list and inside the list.
>Can anyone help me? here's the line that seems to be giving me trouble.
>lyst[[Random[Integer, {1, Length[lyst]}]]] = Random[Integer,
>{Length[lyst]+ 1,Length[lyst] + 100}]
You don't really say what you mean by trouble. The line above
appears to be valid Mathematica syntax. And when I do:
In[1]:=
lyst=Range@5
Out[1]=
{1,2,3,4,5}
lyst[[Random[Integer,{1,Length[lyst]}]]]=
Random[Integer,{Length[lyst]+1,Length[lyst]+100}]
Out[2]=
17
In[3]:=
lyst
Out[3]=
{1,2,17,4,5}
it appears to me it is working correctly. I would have coded
this a bit differently as follows:
lyst[[Random[Integer,{1,Length[lyst]}]]]=
Random[Integer,{1,100}]+Length[lyst]
simply to reduce the amount of typing and the number of times
Length[lyst] is called. Also, to me, the resulting code is
clearer. But I don't see this as addressing your problem.
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