Re: [fricas-devel] Re: A simple question

"Bill Page" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mathematics.axiom.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/2/08, Alasdair McAndrew <[email protected]> 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.
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