I see. It would be better/safer to keep x1, ..., xn for the variables of the ring and use other variables for your sequence. One solution is to put the values into a tuple and use the syntax f(*X) to expand your tuple as different argument into a function. Here is a precise example
sage: R.<x1,x2,x3,x4> = BooleanPolynomialRing() sage: f1 = x1*x2 + x3 + x4 sage: f2 = x2*x3 sage: f3 = x1 + x4 sage: f4 = x1 + x2 sage: X0 = (x1,x2,x3,x4) sage: X1 = (f1(*X0), f2(*X0), f3(*X0), f4(*X0)) sage: X2 = (f1(*X1), f2(*X1), f3(*X1), f4(*X1)) sage: X0 (x1, x2, x3, x4) sage: X1 (x1*x2 + x3 + x4, x2*x3, x1 + x4, x1 + x2) sage: X2 (x1*x2*x3 + x2*x3*x4 + x2*x3 + x2 + x4, x1*x2*x3 + x2*x3*x4, x1*x2 + x1 + x2 + x3 + x4, x1*x2 + x2*x3 + x3 + x4) Is your n fixed (n=4 in my example above) or you want it to be a parameter ? Vincent 2015-01-03 18:52 UTC+01:00, Dibyendu Roy <dibyendu.roy1...@gmail.com>: > Actually i want do the following thing: > > first i want to define n boolean variables say x1,....xn then i want to > update each variable by a function of x1,x2.....,xn in each step. That > means in first step x1 will be updated by an boolean expression of > x1,....,xn. second step also it will be updated by another boolean > expression. And finally i want to find the expresion of say xi. > > for i =1 to k > { x1=f1(x1,...,xn) > x2=f2(x1,...,xn) > ... > ... > > xn=fn(x1,...,xn) > } > finally return x1,....,xn > > On Saturday, January 3, 2015 2:29:21 PM UTC+5:30, Dibyendu Roy wrote: >> >> I am learning sage for first time. I want to do iteration in boolean >> polynomial ring. >> >> sage: from polybori import * >> sage: declare_ring([Block('x',177),Block('y',2)],globals()) >> sage: r >> sage: x(1)=x(0)*y(0) >> >> Its showing me following error >> >> ValueError: Argument names should be valid python identifiers. >> >> actually i want to update the variables x(1) by x(0)*y(0). please help me >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.