CAS versus HOME confusion.

[John P]

(01-23-2014 10:48 AM)cdecastro Wrote:  A quick question regarding the CAS on prime. I generally keep the calculator in CAS mode when working. If I type MAKELIST(x,x,1,5,1) in CAS mode I get an empty list, [], whereas in HOME mode i get [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] as expected. What is happening here? Thanks for the reply.

In CAS you can use sequence to generated any list including symbolic list for example:
seq(2^j,j=1..5)-->[2 4 8 16 32]
seq(j,j=1..5) -->[1 2 3 4 5]
seq(a^j,j=1..3)-->[a,a^2,a^3]
If you want step other then 1:
seq(j,j=1..5,2)-->[1,3,5] etc.