[seqfan] Re: Using "Quiet" in Mathematica: Quiet or Quit?
mathstutoring
mathstutoring at ntlworld.com
Sun Feb 19 16:00:44 CET 2012
Hi Harvey
Is this any good to you?
Select[Range[12500], !IntegerQ[Sqrt[#]] && Count[Last[ContinuedFraction[Sqrt[#]]],1]?27 &]
Ant King (UK)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harvey P. Dale" <hpd1 at nyu.edu>
To: "zak seidov" <zakseidov at yahoo.com>
Cc: <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 2:43 PM
Subject: [seqfan] Re: Using "Quiet" in Mathematica: Quiet or Quit?
Zak:
Mathematica now has a command called Quiet that is different than Quit. I'm using Mathematica 8.
Best,
Harvey
-----Original Message-----
From: zak seidov [mailto:zakseidov at yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 9:35 AM
To: Harvey P. Dale
Subject: Re: [seqfan] Using "Quiet" in Mathematica: Quiet or Quit?
Sorry, Harvey,
do yo mean Quit[]?
In my M5.2, I don't have Quiet.
Thanks,
Zak
---- Original Message -----
> From: Harvey P. Dale <hpd1 at nyu.edu>
> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
> Cc:
> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 8:26 PM
> Subject: [seqfan] Using "Quiet" in Mathematica
>
> I would like guidance, and perhaps a consensus or rule, about
> whether and when to use "Quiet" in Mathematica programs in the OEIS.
> Here's an example: A031795 lists numbers such that there are
> exactly 27 occurrences of the digit 1 in the period of the continued
> fraction of the square root of the number. In Mathematica, it is easy
> to generate the terms of the period of the continued fraction --
> ContinuedFraction[Sqrt[n]][[2]] does that. It is also easy to count
> the number of ones in that period, using Count. The problem is that
> every number that is a perfect square causes an error message to be
> generated since there is no period of the continued fraction for the
> square root of a perfect square.
> There are two ways to deal with this. One is simply to wrap the
> Mathematica program inside "Quiet." The second is to write a program
> that avoids the error messages, in this case by separately testing for
> perfect-square status. I chose the latter for the program I submitted
> for A031795. But there are two problems with this choice:
> (1) it makes the program more opaque to the readers of the OEIS and
> (2) it takes additional time to write such an error-code-avoiding program.
> (Indeed, in some instances I am not readily able to figure out how to
> avoid the error messages and so cannot easily write a program that
> avoids their generation.)
> Using Quiet to eliminate the error messages, however, might be
> dangerous because some of the messages generated might be material,
> e.g., they might deal with precision errors or erroneous terms being
> generated.
> I would assume that no one would want to use Quiet when its effect
> might be to pollute the accuracy of the OEIS. The question really is:
> if it appears clear that the error messages being generated are not of
> the dangerous variety, should Quiet be permitted in lieu of having to
> figure out and submit what will always be a more complex Mathematica
> program?
> I would appreciate guidance.
> Best,
> Harvey
>
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