Re: Using a logical Or in the function definition
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- Subject: [mg86703] Re: [mg86687] Using a logical Or in the function definition
- From: Arne Hallam <ahallam at iastate.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:22:48 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Iowa State University
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Thanks to everyone who replied. These are all great ``alternatives'' as opposed to logical solutions. Using alternative instead of logical was what I needed. Adriano Pascoletti wrote: > Use Alternatives (|): > In[1]:= ab[(r_Integer) | (r_Rational), (s_Integer) | (s_Rational)] := r/s; > In[2]:= ab[3, 7] > Out[2]= 3/7 > In[3]:= ab[3/2, 21/4] > Out[3]= 2/7 > In[4]:= ab[3/2, 7] > Out[4]= 3/14 > In[5]:= ab[3.2, 4] > Out[5]= ab[3.2, 4] > > Adriano Pascoletti > > On 18 mar 2008, at 10:51, ahallam at iastate.edu wrote: > >> I would like to use Or in the function definition as in >> >> ab[ Or[r_Integer,r_Rational], Or[s_Integer,s_Rational] ]:=r/s; >> >> In other words, I want the function to take integers or ratios of >> integers as arguments, but not real numbers which are not rational. >> >> But if I give the function integer arguments, it does not evaluate. >> >> If I try >> >> ar[ r_Integer , Or[s_Integer , s_Rational]] := r/s; >> >> and give an integer first argument it works and so on. >> > -- with all thy getting get understanding---Proverbs 4:7. The gentle art of being gentle---of kindness and forgiveness, sensitivity and thoughtfulness and generosity and humility and good old-fashioned love---have gone out of fashion. Ironically, everyone is demanding their rights, and this demand is so shrill that it destroys one of the most basic rights, if we can put it like that: the right, or at least the longing and hope, to have a peaceful, stable, secure, and caring place to live, to be, to learn, and to flourish---N.T. Wright. In the wildness of speculation it has been suggested (of course more in jest than in earnest),that Europe ought to grow its corn in America, and devote itself solely to manufactures and commerce, as the best sort of division of the labour of the globe---Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population Book III, Chapter XII. Arne Hallam Department of Economics 266 Heady Hall Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 ahallam at iastate.edu Contact Information: ahallam at iastate.edu Work: 515-294-5861 FAX: 515-294-0221 Home: 515-292-8739
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