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Re: Help on Function

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  • Subject: [mg3851] Re: Help on Function
  • From: Harald Berndt <haraldb at nature.berkeley.edu>
  • Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 02:11:38 -0400
  • Organization: University of California Forest Prodcts Lab
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Roberto Diego wrote:
> 
> Hi people,
> 
> Could you please help me? I4m trying to write a function (not procedure
> if possible) that works on a list such as {a1, a2, a3, a4, ...} and
> returns a list {a2/a1, a3/a2, a4/a3, ...}. I know it should be an easy
> task but I4m a newbe...
> 

How about

  divL[list_] := Last[#]/First[#]& /@ Partition[list, 2, 1]

where list is {a1, a2, a3, a4, ...}
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