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Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question
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Bill Page |
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Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question |
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Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:39:44 -0500 |
On 2/2/08, Alasdair McAndrew <address@hidden> wrote:
> Actually,
>
> for n in 10..30 repeat output [n::String, factor(2^n-1)]
>
> is probably the simplest.
>
Although this apparently produces the effect that you wanted I think
it is also a very poor notation to achieve this effect. To understand
why it is a bad choice you need to understand how Axiom assigns types
to various objects - this is very complicated and often quite
unexpected - even when it works. The problem is finding a good way to
write this that always works the way you expect.
Regards,
Bill Page.
- [Axiom-mail] A simle question, Alasdair McAndrew, 2008/02/01
- Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question, Martin Rubey, 2008/02/01
- Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question, Bill Page, 2008/02/01
- Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question, Martin Rubey, 2008/02/02
- Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question, Bill Page, 2008/02/02
- Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question, Alasdair McAndrew, 2008/02/02
- Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question,
Bill Page <=
- Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question, Alasdair McAndrew, 2008/02/02
- Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question, root, 2008/02/02
- Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question, Alasdair McAndrew, 2008/02/02
- Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question, root, 2008/02/02
- Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question, Ralf Hemmecke, 2008/02/07
- Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] A simple question, Ralf Hemmecke, 2008/02/07