Nevermind; sorry for the noise; found the answer in the docs for makelist:
(%i1) makelist(concat(x,i),i,1,6);
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Joshua Stults <joshua.stults at gmail.com> wrote:
> Given an integer, n, I would like to be able to generate a list of n
> unique symbols, e.g. [k1, k2, k3, ..., kn]. ?The closest I've been
> able to figure out is this:
>
> K : [];
> for i: 1 thru n do (
> ?K : append(K, [k[i]])
> );
>
> Which gives a list of indexed elements like [ k[1], k[2], ..., k[n] ].
> ?Is there a way to do this so that the elements of the list are *not*
> indexed?
>
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