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From: Bill Rowe on 31 Mar 2010 06:26
On 3/30/10 at 5:01 AM, sagittarius5962(a)gmail.com (nt) wrote:

>Is there a way to build an if statement with two conditions such as:
>if[a>b and a>0,...]. If there is, could you let me know the syntax?

Either

If[a>b && a>0, ...]

or

If[And[a>b, a>0, ...]

will do what you want


From: dr DanW on 31 Mar 2010 06:27
You almost had it.

If[ And[ a>b, a>0], ...]

There are a number of ways to write it

If[ (a>b)~And~(a>0), ...],

If[ (a>b) && (a>0), ...]

Most people like the last one.

Daniel

From: Murray Eisenberg on 31 Mar 2010 06:27
Did you at all attempt to use the documentation to answer your question?

If not, you might begin by using the search field in the Documentation
Center to look up each of:

if
and

Actually, unless you're a complete novice at Mathematica, you'd already
know that the names of built-in objects always begin with an upper-case
letter, so you'd save some time sifting through lists of references by
looking up instead each of:

If
And

On 3/30/2010 6:01 AM, nt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to build an if statement with two conditions such as:
> if[a>b and a>0,...]. If there is, could you let me know the syntax?
>
> Thanks
> nt
>

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From: Manfred Plagmann on 1 Apr 2010 06:58
Logical operators are && for AND and || for OR etc. Just string your logic together:

If[a>b && a>0, ...]

The documentation is your friend and will list all logical operators.

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