Questions tagged [assignment]
For questions relating to assignments to symbols, patterns, or expressions.
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A question about a replacement of element of set
To begin with, I'm a poor English speaker, which means it would be hard to read to natives...
I was trying to memorize mRNA codons with mathematica.
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How to use an up-value assignment when all symbols are “too deep”?
I would like to make an up-value assignment such as
a/:Conjugate[a[x]]a[x]+Conjugate[b[x]]b[x] = 1
or
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Replace constant in summation function using replace or If or /
Hi i how do i replace constant for k in this summation.
For following:
Even 2*n Even replace k by a
Even 2*n+1 Odd replace k by b
Here is the code
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Making a function definition where the right hand side is evaluated before the definition is saved [closed]
My question is about assigning the resulting expression after evaluation of a function.
So what I want:
FOCf[x, y] := D[f[x, y], x]
such it immediately ...
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Is it possible to set values for a list of variables using a for loop? [duplicate]
Let me preface this question by noting that this is a simple example meant to clarify what I am asking. The actual context in which I want to implement this involves associations containing hundreds ...
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Scoping of pattern variables [duplicate]
I have run into a problematic behavior, and then came to find that it is a "possible issue" called out in the documentation, but I guess I am just baffled that this IS an issue, and am wondering why. ...
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Why it is doing part assignment? [closed]
I am writing an algorithm and need to keep updating an association called "verticesAssoc". My algorithm ran perfectly at first. However now I want to use the same algorithm on another association "...
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Seeing definitions of built-in functions [duplicate]
Possibly a very amateur question, so I'll apologise in advance. I'm reasonably new.
I'm trying to write a Dot equivalent of ...
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unexpected result from augmented assignment to association
Is the last of these results expected? If so, how?
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Transferring DownValues
I have a code in which I define something like this:
cc[1, 2] = 1;
cc[2, 6] = 12;
cc[3, 7] = 3;
After some manipulation I define a sort of temporary variable ...
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Reassignment of variables
Another quick question of mine.
If I want to assign variables to be some arrays in parallel, I can use a construct like
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Reassign a value to an array element
I have a very complex code in which I assign a value to an element of an array and then I reassign to it another one. A minimal example:
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Evaluating the 1st argument of Set
I want to assign a certain value to an element of a tensor. This element is identified by an array obtained from some evaluations, so we fix it. Here i present an oversimplified core part of my code:
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Tag Times in Null is Protected [closed]
I've some problems with the error mentioned in the title. Unfortunately, my code is full of subscripts so I'll show it in a photo. In this code the central aspect is to assign a scalar value to an ...
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Assign a function within a function [duplicate]
What I'm doing wrong? 1st function works as expected but the 2nd one doesn't. What I want is to enter an algebraic expression and two numeric constants and get the same result as with the first ...
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How to use a calculated expression on left-hand-side of an assignment?
Elementary question, I guess: I have a left-hand-side something like this:
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Trouble with UpSet(Delayed) and IgnoringInactive
I'm having problems setting an upvalue for a symbol that is supposed to ignore Inactive:
IgnoringInactive[f[g[x]]] ^:= match;
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Hot to single out numeric values from NMaximize
I have some problem with NMaximize.
The function NMaximize gives result like this
NMaximize[f[x],x]
{f[xmax] ,{x -> xmax}}
I've read in various answers that ...
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assignments within Manipulate
I have encountered unexpected behaviour when assigning variables in Manipulate.
Consider an inverted parabola
y[x_, c_] := -x^2 + c
The following code finds the ...
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Symbolic variable assignment
I looked around and didn't see this question on the forum, so my apologies in advance in case this has been answered here.
My question can be concisely described by the following example:
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How to assign values using nested Part[ ] expressions?
Why doesn't this work? Can I make it work?
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How to 'unassign' variables used for PlotPoints, which subsequently print as e.g. Charting`Private`pvar$727158
I have a table of four insoluble equations, fceq, in terms of unassigned variables,
Subscript[fc, i], Subscript[μ, i].
I am using contour plots to visualise ...
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Can't understand one paragraph in Power Programming with Mathematica
In the chapter 7 of the Power Programming with Mathematica, there is a paragraph discussing the behavior of Set- functions: (page 205. (pdf version p. 224))
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Assigning eigenkets to particular eigenspace depending on eigenvalues of system inside a module
I am writing a module, in which the Observable and State is given, so I need to write a function/module QuantumMeasurement, that will return a state of the quantum system resulting from the ...
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assigning numerical values to variable
I have a csv data file, has two columns of data. First column denotes time (t) and the corresponding value in the second column is flow rate (f). I would like to assign these values to an array f[t], ...
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Assigning variables whilst in a context
When working in a context, I would like all variable assignments to happen on symbols in the new context.
This doesn't normally happen. For example,
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How to set parts of Associations “named with” SubValues
Parts of Associations can be set with the following syntax:
as = <|"a" -> 10|>
<|"a" -> 10|>
as["b"] = 20;
as
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Writing a variable to file with its value, not its name [closed]
This is my first time ever posting a question about Mathematica anywhere, so please excuse my ignorance. I'm trying to save a ColorFunction to file, but can't get the variables to be written as ...
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Generalization of the probability of union
hi
How can I do for mathematics to expand this equation for any value of the variables i, j, k
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Multiple variable assignment from a list
For example in Python, if we have a list of 3 elements, say ls = [1,2,3] and we want to assign a variable to each value (from left to right), one can do as follows: ...
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Matrix as function manipulation
Consider matrix
mat[x_] := {{1, 2}, {3, x}}
with
mat[x][[1]]
giving
{1, 2}
I wanna ...
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How to pass variables by reference and by value [duplicate]
I haven't seen this question specifically addressed before in this site, although some hints and traces have been given, for instance, here:
Pass by reference for an option argument
Does pass-by-...
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Set on symbol with OwnValues skips UpValues
Can anyone provide insight on what's going on here?
First I define a new Set behavior for a symbol:
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How do I assign a value to a[1,2][[3]]?
How do I assign a value, say 7 or "t", to a[1, 2][[3]]?
a[1, 2][[3]] = 7
and
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Refer to solution from matrix [duplicate]
Consider matrix equation
m = {{1, 2}, {3, 4}}
l = {{1}, {0}}
p = {{p1}, {p2}}
eq = m.p == l
Solve[eq]
Output is
{{p1 -> -2, p2 -> 3/2}}
But p1 and p2 do not ...
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Confusion about HoldFirst attribute of Set
Set has the attribute HoldFirst.
Expectedly the following does not work, i.e. it does not assign the OwnValue of 3 to x:
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Part not behaving the way I expect it to
p = {{1, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 0}, {0, 1, 0}};
p[[All, 3]][[1 ;; 2]] = {1, 1};
p
I want to replace the first two elements of the third column of a 3x3 identity matrix.
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Wrongly assigning a value to an expression
Sometimes I misstype an equality and I write an assignment instead.
For example, if I write
f'[x] = 2
instead of an equation, ...
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HoldFirst and Hold expression as argument
I store a reference to the association in a held expression in a variable:
a=<||>;
b=Hold[a];
And in the code, I want to do manipulations with the original ...
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Variable assignment/replacement issues
I have three questions about variable assignment.
Module[{z},
z = y;
p'[y] /. p -> Function[y, Evaluate[z]]]
When I run the above code, it outputs 0.
1) If I ...
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Assignment via iteration over list of variables to be assigned values
Variations on my question have been asked before (How to re-assign values to a List of variables?, How to use Table to assign values to variables in a list?, Assigning values to a list of variable ...
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Combining SetDelayed, Set and Options [duplicate]
A function can be defined with SetDelayed while storing its value with Set, eg:
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Create a list of indexed matrices and then change their entries
I make a list of 5 empty $3 \times 3$ matrices via
Table[m[i]=IdentityMatrix[3]-IdentityMatrix[3],{i,1,5}]
However when I want to change an entry via
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assign 2 letters in a subscript
Suppose I want to solve an equation for the matrix elements of $\bar{W}$:
$$\alpha W_{ba}+\beta W_{bb}=x; \alpha W_{aa}+\beta W_{ab}=y$$
Using the syntax ...
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Apply ToString to a list of variables [duplicate]
I have
data1 = {1, 1};
data2 = {2, 2};
datalist = {data1, data2};
I want to create a string list based on the variable names inside ...
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Is there a convention on which name to use for a throwaway variable? (Like underscore in Python) [duplicate]
I would prefer to write {_, foo} = LongFunctionName[arg1, arg2] instead of foo = LongFunctionName[arg1, arg2][[2]] or ...
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Define a function to be equal to the numerical solution of a PDE [duplicate]
I am curious about if it is possible to define a function to be equal to the numerical solution of a PDE (got by NDSolve)? I know that when we try to plot the ...
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Define function of a list from a function of its elements (Set)
I asked a similar question there: Define function of a list from a function of its elements (SetDelayed).
This one is different because I'd like to use Set instead ...
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