help with functions and ranged variables

[jtrox]

hello just a newbee question...
I wanted to assign the result of a function with a ranged variable as input to another variable... but mathcad13 gives an error saying "this value must be a scalar or a matrix"..
example:
i:=1..10
f(x):=x^2

cd:=f(i) <<<<<error f(i) must be a scalar or matrix..

is there a way to get the result as a list..

thanks, anyone..

 

[pstuckey]

The argument of function f should be a vector (2nd line below):

i := 1..10
j[i := i (if ORIGIN=1), or j[i-1 := i (if ORIGIN=0)
f(x) := x^2
cd := f(j)

Peter

 

[jtrox]

this works... thanks..
and pls. one more question..
is there a built in function in mathcad that does something like this.. ie create a vector from a list with specific stepsize.. something like..
i := 0.1,0.2..10
j[(i*10)-1 := i

I just thought something like this this is somewhat very common and there might be some kind of builtin functions for this... instead of having to write a temporary list for every vector variable I wana create..

thankyou very much...

 

[pstuckey]

For linearly spaced points, no. If you had log spaced points you could use the built-in 'logspace' function. A built-in 'linspace' function would be useful though, and if you like you can send a feature request to Mathsoft support.

In the meantime you can create a worksheet with your own user defined functions and include it at the top of each worksheet as a reference (Insert > reference).

Peter