On Saturday, June 12, 2010, Justin C. Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Jun 12, 2010, at 19:07 , William Stein wrote:
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> On Saturday, June 12, 2010, Justin C. Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Jun 12, 2010, at 17:27 , Byungchul Cha wrote:
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> [snip]
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> Shouldn't the value of v remain the same? Why does the change in u
> (or, a row of u) affect v?
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> [snip]
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> For, e.g., integers, "u=v" means that the names u,v both refer to their own 
> copies of the value in question.
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> Are you sure???  I think you statement that u is a new copy is wrong.   I bet
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>  u is v
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> would still return true above.
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>
> Picky picky picky.  I was hoping to avoid a trip into the twisty maze of 
> passages in language definition (all of which are subtly different :-}).  But 
> you are correct.  "u is v" does return true and the two actually refer to the 
> same (physical) value.  And, if one variable is modified, this doesn't modify 
> the other, or the value that both previously referred to.
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>
>   I can't check this now, since am on iPhone....
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> I find that hard to believe.  I thought you had Sage running on all things 
> digital...
>

Your right that I could check it on my iPhone, but I was lazy.    I'm
working on building sage *on* my ipad bit haven't finished yet....



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