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Hello
I need some help. I do not program often and when I do I have doubts.

I try to put the values of the Pascal triangle,
1 --- m1(1,1)
1 1 --- m1(2,1) m1(2,2)
1 2 1 --- m1(3,1), etc
1 3 3 1
……………..
to a matrix that I call "m1" up to "f" lines, in the following way:

EXPORT Tri_Pa(f)
BEGIN
LOCAL n,m;
LOCAL m1;
FOR n FROM 0 TO f DO
FOR m FROM 0 TO n DO
m1(n,m):=COMB(n,m);
END;
END;
END;

But the program stops in the line "m1(n,m):=…", and says: "Invalid input".

How should I define the matrix to avoid the error?

Thanks in advance for your help

Toni

(11-22-2019 08:45 AM)Tonig00 Wrote: [ -> ]Hello
I need some help. I do not program often and when I do I have doubts.

I try to put the values of the Pascal triangle,
1 --- m1(1,1)
1 1 --- m1(2,1) m1(2,2)
1 2 1 --- m1(3,1), etc
1 3 3 1
……………..
to a matrix that I call "m1" up to "f" lines, in the following way:

Thanks in advance for your help

Toni

What does COMB(0,0) even mean? I don't see it as being useful.

Try this:

Code:

EXPORT Tri_Pa(f)

BEGIN

   LOCAL n,m;

   LOCAL m1:=makemat(0,f,f);

   FOR n FROM 1 TO f DO

      FOR m FROM 1 TO n DO

         m1(n,m):=COMB(n,m);

      END;

   END;

END;

(11-22-2019 08:45 AM)Tonig00 Wrote: [ -> ]But the program stops in the line "m1(n,m):=…", and says: "Invalid input".

How should I define the matrix to avoid the error?

You get an error because:
- You need to define m1 as a matrix
- Matrix indices start at 1 and not 0

So here is a working version of your program :

Code:

EXPORT Tri_Pa(f)

BEGIN

  LOCAL n,m;

  LOCAL m1:=[[0]];

  FOR n FROM 0 TO f-1 DO

    FOR m FROM 0 TO n DO

      m1(n+1,m+1):=COMB(n,m);

    END;

  END;

END;

Note that you can also generate the same matrix using just the MAKEMAT function:

Code:

EXPORT Tri_Pa(f)

BEGIN

  MAKEMAT(IFTE(I<J,0,COMB(I-1,J-1)),f,f);

END;

Thanks very much

Both works, and very interesting how the matrix works and the IFTE function.

Thanks

Tonig00

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