I would like to know if there is a way to create a recursion directly in a list. The following command doesn't work
f(x) = -(x-4)^2+16
g(x) = f(x)-f(0)
d=[x for x in range(9)]
c= list(map_threaded(g,d))
s=[(c[i]-c[i-1])/d[i]-d[i-1] for i in range(1,len(c))]
g=[d[i]-d[i-1] for i in range(1,len(d))]
h=[0 if (i<1) else h[i-1] + g[i] for i in range(len(d)-1) ]
This can be done via Python's itertools.accumulate function:
import itertools
h = list( itertools.accumulate(g, initial=0) )
In your last line, you use h to define h itself.
EDIT (given the explanation provided in comments): it is not possible to do such a thing. Indeed, when you write h=[...], the Python name h is created after the object [...] is created.
So, you have to define a recursive function as follows:
sage: def hh(i):
....: if i<1:
....: return 0
....: else:
....: return hh(i-1) + g[i]
....:
sage: h = [hh(i) for i in range(len(d)-1)]
sage: h
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
That said, i guess (i might be wrong in your motivation), that you wanted to use a list so that when you compute h[4], you do not have to do the whole recursion by computing h[3], h[2], h[1], h[0] again, which is what hh does. The trick is to use the @cached_function decorator, that computes h[i] only once and memoizes the result for further calls. So, you can do:
sage: @cached_function
....: def hh(i):
....: if i<1:
....: return 0
....: else:
....: return hh(i-1) + g[i]
....:
sage: h = [hh(i) for i in range(len(d)-1)]
sage: h
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Asked: 2022-08-27 09:31:35 +0100
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Last updated: Aug 27 '22
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As written, the definitions of
f(x),g(x),c, andsare not used in the final result. The definition ofdcan be simplified tod = range(9). The lineg = [d[i]-d[i-1] for i in range(1,len(d))]is just taking differences of consecutive integers (the entries ofrange(9)), so every entry of the listgis 1. So the code could be simplified to two lines:g = [1] * 9and (the broken line)h = [...]. Max Alekseyev's answer is a quick way to use recursion on the entries of the listg.@john-palmieri i guess that the provided example is only a minimal example to show the issue, otherwise, one could simply put
h=range(8)(orlist(range(9))) from scratch. In particular, is it not clear to me whetherhis supposed to be more complex than just accumulating sums fromg.@tmonteil. Right, I understand, although for a minimal example, it's far from minimal.