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Re: Better way to test the number of arguments?

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I left off there blank on the function:

ddSaPartial[f_][args__]  := D[f[args],  {Rest@{args}}]


2014-04-27 8:56 GMT-04:00 Bob Hanlon <hanlonr357@gmail.com>:

> ddSaPartial[f][args__]  := D[f[args],  {Rest@{args}}]
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> Bob Hanlon
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> 2014-04-27 2:42 GMT-04:00 <pgeipi10@gmail.com>:
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> Hi,
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>> I have the following code that produces the gradient of a function (with
>> respect to all but the first variable). There is probably a better way that
>> avoids the Switch.
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>> Thank you,
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>> Pavel
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>> ddSaPartial[func_][t_, s__] := Switch[Length[{s}],
>>   1, {Derivative[0, 1][func][t, s]},
>>   2, {Derivative[0, 1, 0][func][t, s],
>>    Derivative[0, 0, 1][func][t, s]},
>>   3, {Derivative[0, 1, 0, 0][func][t, s],
>>    Derivative[0, 0, 1, 0][func][t, s],
>>    Derivative[0, 0, 0, 1][func][t, s]},
>>   4, {Derivative[0, 1, 0, 0, 0][func][t, s],
>>    Derivative[0, 0, 1, 0, 0][func][t, s],
>>    Derivative[0, 0, 0, 1, 0][func][t, s],
>>    Derivative[0, 0, 0, 0, 1][func][t, s]},
>>   5, {Derivative[0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0][func][t, s],
>>    Derivative[0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0][func][t, s],
>>    Derivative[0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0][func][t, s],
>>    Derivative[0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0][func][t, s],
>>    Derivative[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1][func][t, s]}
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