The solutions using concat may (unfortunately) be necessary in some cases
-- some parts of Maxima (sorry, I don't have a list) don't allow
subscripted variables. But if they're not necessary, a[i,j] is cleaner,
simpler, and more efficient.
-s
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:25 PM, <maxima at peutch.e4ward.com> wrote:
> Thanks, just what I needed!
>
> Je la 03/05/2012 18:30, Stavros Macrakis skribis:
> > var['a,'x]:1$
> >
> > Longer example:
> >
> > (%i1) for i in '[a,b,c,d] do for j in '[q,r,s,t] do var[i,j] :
> random(100);
> > (%o1) done
> > (%i2) listarray(var);
> > (%o2) [12,2,34,85,4,91,29,85,98,3,35,65,40,26,39,20]
> > (%i3) arrayinfo(var);
> > (%o3)
> >
> [hashed,2,[a,q],[a,r],[a,s],[a,t],[b,q],[b,r],[b,s],[b,t],[c,q],[c,r],[c,s],[c,t],[d,q],[d,r],[d,s],[d,t]]
> >
> > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Patrick Blanchenay
> > <patrick at blanchenay.net <mailto:patrick at blanchenay.net>> wrote:
> >
> > Je la 03/05/2012 14:53, Jaime Villate skribis:
> > > On 05/03/2012 02:50 PM, Jaime Villate wrote:
> > >> On 05/03/2012 12:32 PM, maxima at peutch.e4ward.com
> > <mailto:maxima at peutch.e4ward.com> wrote:
> > >>> I would like to create variables for each of the 2x2 possible
> > states of
> > >>> my model. Along the first dimension, the state is either a or b.
> > Along
> > >>> the second: x or y.
> > >>>
> > >>> I started by creating manually:
> > >>> variable_ax: 1;
> > >>> variable_ay: 33;
> > >>> variable_bx: 4;
> > >>> variable_by: 50;
> > >>>
> > >>> What I would like to do is something like being able to assign:
> > >>> variable['a]['x] : 1;
> > >>> variable['a]['y] : 33;
> > >>>
> > >>> and so on. But i get an error (assignment: cannot assign to
> > >>> (variable['a])['x]).
> > >> (%i2) concat('variable_,'a,'x) :: 1;
> > >> (%o2) 1
> > >> (%i3) concat('variable_,'a,'y) :: 33;
> > >> (%o3) 33
> > >> (%i4) variable_ax;
> > >> (%o4) 1
> > >> (%i5) variable_ay;
> > >> (%o5) 33
> > > I forgot to paste:
> > >
> > > (%i6) ''(concat('variable_,'a,'x));
> > > (%o8) 1
> > >
> > > Jaime
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Thanks! Does that mean that there is no solution with arrays?
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