Re: Question
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- Subject: [mg110254] Re: Question
- From: telefunkenvf14 <rgorka at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:09:32 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jun 9, 6:19 am, David Lengacher <dclengac... at gmail.com> wrote:
> How can you create a set of variables: x1 to xn using the Table, or so me
> similar function? I need a large list of variables to use in a linear
> program and so far have to type them out manually.
>
> David
I think what you want is Unique[]:
In[1]:= Unique["x"]
Out[1]= x1
You can use the Table[] command to generate x number of unique
variables, say:
In[2]:= Table[Unique["x"], {10}]
Out[2]= {x2, x3, x4, x5, x6, x7, x8, x9, x10, x11}
(And note that the generated variables are in fact unique.)
-RG